# Pakistani council aproves rape to avenge honour

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2004-05-07T09:40:33Z


MetafilterPakistani council aproves rape to avenge honour. 
"A village council in Pakistan permitted a landlord to rape the sister and sister-in-law of a man he accused of an illicit relationship with his daughter, police said Thursday. (...) The council members, all of them landlords themselves, ruled that Ghaffar, who uses only one name, could avenge his honour by having sex with the farmer's daughter, who is 16, and daughter-in-law, who is 22."
 (BBC version here).  
"An estimated 80 percent of women prisoners in Pakistan are in jail because they failed to prove rape charges".This is totally disgusting. Is my blog becoming depressing lately, or is it just the state of the world?





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