Crime of honor: the murder of an unmarried and broadcast unmarried couple, more than 10 suspects arrested in Pakistan

More than a dozen men suspected of being involved in the murder of an unmarried couple in Balutchistan. However, in southwest Pakistan, were arrested, police announced on Monday, after a video has become viral on social networks.

According to a police report consulted by AFP. However, a married woman and her lover were killed last June after trying to run away, near Margat near Quetta, the provincial capital of Balutchistan, a region plagued by recurring violence.

In a video widely shared in recent days on social networks. Therefore, we see dozens of men surrounded by pick-up and 4×4 in a remote mountainous area, ordering a woman and a man to stand in front of them, before a man cut them one after the other.

“We have arrested more than a dozen men involved in the incident. ” a police official crime honor: murder unmarried broadcast told AFP on condition of anonymity, not being authorized to speak to the media.

According to this source. the cousin of the woman and the man who chaired the Jirga, a tribal council who decided to kill the couple, are among the arrested.

The provincial government has decided to consider the file as “terrorism”. The chief minister of Balutchistan denounced an “heinous” incident.

In Pakistan. a deeply conservative country, hundreds of so -called “honor” crimes – men killing women from their family because they condemn their behavior – are identified each year.

“This recent case. which has only been the subject of intervention because the video has become viral, would certainly have been buried like hundreds of others who have not been reported,” reacted to AFP Nighat Dad, activist for women’s rights.

She regretted that jirgas continue to make such decisions, despite a ban on the Supreme Court.