Then they allegedly gang raped her.

They “gang-raped her and subjected her to torture,” Pakistan newspaper Dawn reported. “They stripped her naked, tied her [to] a tree in the village.”

All this was reportedly retribution for the perceived offenses of her brother, who married against the wishes of family members connected to the four accused rapists.

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The details were hard to decipher, as reporting of rape cases by police and news organizations in Pakistan is often sketchy and incomplete.

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Pakistan Today claims the rape case has been “registered” with police.

In January, several men in south Punjab gang raped a 40-year-old widow because her brother had had “illicit relations” with a young girl, according to the Dubai newspaper Khaleej Times.

Also in January, a Punjab teen was on her way from college when she was attacked and raped. Police charged one man, but then, without offering an explanation, released him. She then self-immolated in front of the police station in protest.

A 2002 Human Rights Commission report found that on average “one woman is being raped every two hours, and one woman is gang raped every eight hours” in Pakistan.