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Recently, after being beaten by more than ten people, 4 women in Pakistan were also stripped of their clothes and forced to "parade in the streets" naked, which triggered the "frying pan" of Pakistani public opinion. And all this is only because some people suspect that they have "stolen something." This extremely crude and backward "private law sanctions" is really unbearable in modern society.
(Live video screenshot)
According to the Global Network quoted by the British "Sun" reported on December 13, a few days ago, in a commercial street in Faisalabad, Pakistan, four women walked into an electronics store. From the surveillance video that was exposed, all three women were talking to the clerk near the cash register, and only one woman was very normal in viewing the goods on the shelves and did not directly touch the goods themselves. However, the clerk then shouted to stop the woman's actions and unjustifiably accused the four women of "colluding to steal in-store goods."
Although several women struggled to argue that they had not stolen and that the clerk had not retrieved the goods from them, they still did not give up. So things quickly developed into four clerks holding sticks and punching and kicking four women. When the one-sided beating spread to the streets, more than a dozen passers-by joined in, committing violence against the women. Perhaps to "kill the chickens and scare the monkeys", several clerks and passers-by also forcibly took away the women's clothes, leaving them with only a blue shoulder and forcing them to "parade the streets" naked on the street. Fortunately, there were more sensible passers-by who called the police, and the women were forced to parade the streets for nearly an hour before they were rescued by the local police, and several clerks and passers-by suspected of violence were also arrested and put into the police station.
(Several suspects arrested)
According to a bulletin issued by the Central Police Department of Faisalabad, Pakistan, the four women confessed inside the police station that they were just asking the clerk for some water to drink, and that they had not committed theft. At present, the police have arrested 8 suspects suspected of violence, including the owner of the electrical appliance store and 3 clerks. Ironically, the police noted that despite the myriad witnesses, the shopkeeper insisted that "it was the women who tore up their own clothes and we should not be held responsible". This kind of faceless behavior is indeed jaw-dropping.
(Women's Rights Demonstration in Pakistan)
In fact, this is not the first time women in Pakistan have been abused. Previously, a 14-year-old girl was poured with gasoline and burned alive by her uncle only because her family suspected that she was in a relationship with other men; a Christian nurse was falsely accused of "blasphemy" by a Muslim colleague and then tied up, stripped naked and tortured for more than ten hours in the hospital; two teenage girls were shot and killed by their families for "violating the religious law" in the name of "honor execution"... The Global Gender Index report provided by the World Economic Forum notes that Pakistan's domestic violence index is the second-to-last level in the world, and the UNITED Nations report also notes that Pakistan currently ranks sixth among the "least friendly to women" countries, which shows the dangers and pressures faced by women in Pakistan.
(A Pakistani woman who was "executed")
However, in the face of patriarchal politics and the oppression of traditional culture, Pakistani women are not sitting still. Since 2018, the Pakistan Women's Society has held massive demonstrations on International Women's Day every year, demanding that the government improve protection of women's rights in Pakistan and calling on all sectors of society to change their conservative views on women. While some conservatives in Pakistan see this as "the result of Western instigation," the truth is that the Pakistani government has begun to work to protect women's rights, as exemplified by the new Anti-Rape Law. But as things stand now, Pakistani women still have a long way to go if they want to truly win their own better future.