A woman in Pakistan has been sentenced to death for burning her daughter alive in what she describes as “honor killing”.
Parveen
Bibi told a court in Punjab that she killed her daughter “for
bringing shame to her family,” police spokeswoman Nabila Ghazanfar confirms to
CNN. Parveen’s son Ahmer Rafique was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the crime.
The late Rafique had been living with her new
husband for a month before she visited her home in Lahore in the hopes
of a reconciliation with her family.
But when Rafique arrived, her mother and brother tied her to a bed,…
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