A Pakistani court sentenced two men to life in prison and to have their ears and noses cut off for a similar mutilation that they inflicted upon a woman who refused to marry one of them.
The BBC reports that the court found that the two brothers were guilty of the kidnapping of their cousin, 20-year-old Fazeelat Bibi, last September.
Government prosecutor Ehtisham Qadir explained that the punishment had been doled out under the Islamic doctrine of “an eye for an eye”.
He said that when Fazeelat Bibi returned home from her work at a brick kiln, brothers Sher Mohammed and Amanat ” put a noose around her neck, and then cut off her ears and nose,” The attack was in retaliation for Bibi’s parents refusal of Sher Mohammed’s offer of marriage.
Sentences of such punishments are said to be rare in Pakistan and they are often revoked on appeal.
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