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| Pakistani Shahnaz Bibi was forced to parade naked in her village last year |
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Several
Pakistani police officers have been suspended after they were accused of
parading a couple naked in public.
According
to witnesses, police in the Sindh town of Gambat forced the man and woman to
walk to the police station naked as punishment for trying to have sex outside
marriage.
Mobile
phone footage shows a naked man being beaten by police and a woman begging them
to let her cover herself.
After a
public outcry, officials suspended the officers involved.
The BBC's
Shahzeb Jiliani says incidents of public dishonouring are not uncommon in
Pakistan, but this incident is particularly shocking because it was carried out
by police and filmed on mobile phones.
Last year,
several men were arrested for stripping a middle aged woman naked and parading
her round the village as punishment for her son allegedly having an affair with
a woman in their family.
Shahnaz
Bibi told the BBC at the time that her life had been ruined by the ordeal, and
she could never go home.
'Deeply
scarred'
The footage
of this latest incident shows the man, Mumtaz Mirbahar, being pushed around and
abused by police officers on his property.
He is then
forced to walk naked to the police station, alongside his alleged partner, as a
large crowd looks on.
Mr Mirbahar
said he has been "deeply scarred" by the incident. He has been
released on bail, but the woman involved is still in detention.
Local
police said they took action in response to several public complaints against
Mr Mirbahar, who has been reportedly holding drink and dance parties during the
Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
Neighbours
confirmed to the BBC that there had been an issue, but said the police did not
have the right to humiliate anyone in that manner.
Pakistani
activists say unless stern action is taken against the officers involved,
police abuses of their power are unlikely to end here.
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