The Prosecutor’s Office investigates the case of the two Pakistani sisters, Urooj and Anisa, who lived in Catalonia and who were murdered by their relatives in the east of their country, after the young women requested a divorce from their cousins, with whom they were forced to marry, and refused to be accompanied back to Europe.
The Public Ministry will investigate the environment of the two young women to try to clarify the conditions in which the forced marriage took place and clarify whether they were forced to return to Pakistan.
In turn, the Pakistani Police has released the image of six defendants allegedly involved in the murder and that they were arrested 24 hours after they committed the crime last Friday. Those arrested are the two husbands, an uncle and the brothers, among whom is the intellectual author of the crime. The Pakistani police are still looking for a seventh individual involved in this double crime. According to the investigation, the sisters were killed in an honor killing.
From Terrasa, a friend of the family has told TVE that the father of the young women assumes that he has two children in prison, which could mean that the brothers of the victims are guilty.
The Pakistani consul in Spain, Salman Baig, is in contact with the father of the victims, as well as with the Pakistani community and authorities. According to Baig, the father has confirmed that the weddings were arranged and that they agreed, however, they refused to regroup with their husbands.
Apparently, the young women had a partner in Terrasa, an issue that the father has claimed to be unaware of. Aneesa has not lived with her parents for 14 months and Urooj has also left for four months. Both had been living in Spain for four years. The Pakistani community of Terrasa has shown its concern after what happened and have called a prayer for the deceased.
The Mossos investigate the details of the trip to find out if they were forced
The Mossos d’Esquadra have summoned relatives of the two Pakistani sisters residing in Terrassa (Barcelona) murdered in their country of origin to testify to determine their degree of collaboration in their trip.
Throughout the morning of this Tuesday, the Catalan police have taken a statement from the father to clarify the details of the trip and find out if they were forced to return to Pakistan or if they were convinced to do so. The young women went to Pakistan to see her mother, who had been in the country of origin since March with her two children.
Although at first it was believed that the two young women had Spanish nationality, sources from the Spanish embassy in Islamabad told Efe that the sisters only had residence. As they are not Spanish citizens, it has not been possible to activate the embassy’s consular assistance service and the country’s authorities will deal with the event.
For his part, the police chief of the Gujrat district of Pakistan, Ata Ur Rahman, explained on Tuesday that he plans to apply the maximum punishment of the “death penalty” to the killers.
“We have obtained evidence from the crime scene, so I don’t think they can get any undue benefit from the courts. We will prosecute them properly and jail them. They will receive the ultimate punishment under Pakistani law, the death penalty,” he said. in statements to TV3, collected by Europa Press.
Terrasa announces three days of mourning for the double murder
The City Council of Terrassa (Barcelona) has decreed three days of mourning for the double murder. “Following the Mourning Protocol in the case of femicide and other murders due to sexist violence in the city, official mourning has been decreed as of today and during the first 24 hours, all institutional acts are cancelled,” said the statement issued by the Consistory.
In the following 48 hours, in all official acts there will be a minute of silence at the beginning and the Monument to Women and the municipal civic centers will be illuminated in lilac. The statement comes after a morning of meetings at the town hall, first with the table against femicide and then with the minute of silence at the entrance of the Town Hall.
The recognition ceremony was attended by the mayor of Terrassa, Jordi Ballart, the Minister for Equality and Feminism, Tània Verge, as well as members of the Local Corporation and the security forces.
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“We are dismayed by what has happened and this time we have found out because they have been two neighbors who have returned to Pakistan; We don’t want to imagine everything that can happen there”said María Toresanz, from CCOO, after participating in the act. Previously, the mayor had brought together the Femicide Table on the occasion of the murders of these two neighbors in Pakistan. In Catalonia alone, in the last ten years, 85 girls and 68 women have been treated for forced marriages.
This Tuesday, the Mossos have confirmed that “this year we have been aware of four cases of forced marriage, three of them of minors”. The authorities invite you to report if you know of any cases like this.
“Aquest any hem tingut knowledge of four cases of #MatrimonisForçatsthree of them with minors of age.
If they force you to marry or meet some cases, I came or contacted the most appropriate police station and we will help you pic.twitter.com/ZHOEEdvuCq“
— Mossos (@mossos) May 24, 2022
In addition, the agents have confirmed that during 2021 they knew of eight cases and have treated 10 minors related to forced marriages. The age range of those served is between 14 and 20 years.
In 2021, 478 honor killings were recorded in Pakistan
Those known as honor killings are common in South Asia and often involve male members of a family committing what they consider to be an affront that contravenes the conservative family morals of local societies.
According to data from the NGO Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), 478 honor crimes were recorded in the country last year alone. Between 2004 and May 2018 that figure rose to 17,628 cases, although it is believed that the real number could be much higher due to the lack of complaints, especially when it comes to relatives.
The Pakistani government passed a law in 2016 banning forgiveness of the families of the victims in this type of crime, a legal hole with which many men were free after killing a woman, generally a sister or a wife. However, human rights groups and activists warn that the law has had little impact in curbing these crimes.
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