‎4 sentenced to death for lynching Pakistan woman‎

.A Pakistani court sentenced four men to death Wednesday over the mob killing of a woman who ‎married against her family's wishes, a court official said.  Farzana Perveen, who was pregnant at the ‎time, was beaten to death by her father and other relatives outside a courthouse in the eastern city of ‎Lahore on May 27. The father surrendered to police after the killing and was among those sentenced to ‎death.  She was going to the Lahore High Court in connection with a kidnapping case filed by her ‎family against the woman and her husband. One of the attackers claimed to be Perveen's husband, ‎saying the woman married another man without divorcing him.  Court official Imtiaz Ahmed said the ‎woman's father, two brothers and the man who claimed to be the woman's husband were sentenced to ‎death. He said a fifth man was sentenced to 10 years in jail.  Arranged marriages are the norm among ‎conservative Pakistanis, and hundreds of women are murdered every year in so-called honor killings ‎carried out by husbands or relatives as a punishment for alleged adultery or other illicit sexual behavior.‎

Pakistan has one of the highest rates of violence against women globally. The Human Rights ‎Commission of Pakistan, a private group, says some 869 women were murdered in honor killings in ‎‎2013.‎  (Source: AP)