A court in Pakistan has sentenced four people including members of a family to death for the “honor killing” (known elsewhere as “murder”) of a pregnant woman outside the country’s High Court.  Her own kin stoned 30-year old Farzana Parveen to death because they objected to her marriage.

Parveen’s father, brother, cousin, and former fiance had all found guilty of murder on Wednesday.  Another brother was sentenced to ten years in jail.

Farzana Parveen had gone to the High Court to defend her husband in a case brought by the angry relatives, who claimed he abducted her.  Parveen testified that she married Muhammad Iqbal of her own free will.  After the proceeding, the families of Parveen and Iqbal clashed outside the court, and Farzana was mortally wounded with a brick to the head.  Police denied allegations that they stood around while the attack took place.

Death sentences in so-called “honor killings” are rare, but this case had received international attention.