19 Year Old Pakistani Woman, Tortured, Set On Fire, All For Refusing A Marriage Proposal

No girl or woman, should ever be forced into marriage! Marriage is a personal choice, not a duty or an obligation. Marriage should only be completed by two individuals that have consented with each other and decided to go through the rituals that consist in a marriage.


"Pakistani police announced Friday that all five suspects in the brutal killing of a 19-year-old schoolteacher who was tortured, doused with gasoline and set on fire earlier this week for refusing to marry a man twice her age are now in custody.

Before she died, Maria Bibi had given a statement to police, saying five attackers had stormed her house in the town of Upper Dewal on Monday, dragged her to an open area and kicked her as though she were a “football.”

She was brought to an Islamabad hospital in critical condition and later died. The attackers fled after the assault. Bibi's family has maintained that she was killed for rejecting a marriage proposal from a man who owned a school and wanted her to marry his son....."


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