Pakistan teen poisoned, choked and burned alive in 'honor killing'...Watch Video
More than a dozen people have been arrested after a teenage girl was choked, injected with poison, tied to a van and then burned to death.
Police in Abbottabad in Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province said the death was a so-called honor killing ordered by a tribal council after the girl, 16-year-old Ambreen, allegedly helped a neighbor and her boyfriend elope.
"The order came after Ambreen's neighbor, Saima, had eloped with her boyfriend on the 22nd of April," police officer Khurram Rasheed said.
Rasheed said the girl's killing was ordered after a 15 member tribal council, or Jirga, gathered to investigate the elopement.
The couple that eloped has been tracked and is in a safe place, police said. They added that those arrested will be tried in an anti-terrorism court.
'Honor killings'
Around 1,100 women were killed by relatives in Pakistan last year, according to the country's independent Human Rights Commission.
In February, director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's film on the subject, "A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness," won an Oscar for best documentary short.
"To me honor killing is premeditated, cold-blooded murder, but the justification given by men when they kill a woman is that she did something without permission, or that is out of bounds of what society deems is OK for a woman," Obaid-Chinoy said.
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed action after Obaid-Chinoy's film was released, saying: "There is no honor in honor killing, in fact there can be nothing more degrading than to engage in brutal murder and to refer to it as honor."
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