Over 20 men, including her father and brothers, attacked the woman and her husband before a crowd in Lahore, Pakistan.
The woman’s father has been arrested and charged with murder as police work to find more people involved in what they have called a ‘heinous crime.’
Hundreds of women are murdered in Pakistan in so-called ‘honour killings’ which are committed when women have supposedly ‘shamed’ their families through adultery or ‘illicit sexual behaviour.’
The murdered pregnant woman was identified as 25-year-old Farzana Parveen. She married Mohammad Iqbal after being engaged to him for several years, against her family’s wishes.
Prominent human rights activist Zia Awan told The Guardian: ‘I have not heard of any such case in which a woman was stoned to death, and the most shameful and worrying thing is that this woman was killed in front of a court.’
Zia revealed that families conducting ‘honour killings’ often get off lightly.
‘Either the family does not pursue such cases or police don't properly investigate. As a result, the courts either award light sentences to the attackers, or they are acquitted.’
Farzana Parveen’s husband Iqbal told the Associated Press ‘We were in love.’
Iqbal married Farzana after becoming a widower. He has 5 children from his previous marriage.