In a horrifying story from India, a village tribunal there has reportedly handed down the sentence that two sisters, ages 23 and 15, should be raped as punishment for a crime.
What's worse is that the tribunal wasn't sentencing the sisters for anything they did wrong, but was sentencing their brother, according to The Mirror.
His crime? Running away with a married woman from a higher caste, The Times of India reports. Even though such sentences are technically illegal under national laws governing India, the family is terrified, according to Amnesty International UK.
The sisters are from a village in Baghpat district in India. There, on 30 July, an unelected all-male village council (khap panchayat) ordered that they be raped and paraded naked, their faces blackened, as punishment for the actions of their brother.
More than 140,000 people from around the world have signed Amnesty International's petition to help the sisters. You can view it here.
