This is sick!

Pakistan woman councillor beaten, paraded naked - Dec. 15, 2002

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) -- Pakistan's leading human rights group says it is shocked by news of the public humiliation of a woman councillor who was beaten and paraded naked through a village on the orders of a powerful landlord.
The News on Sunday newspaper said the incident happened on December 7 in a village near Sialkot, an industrial town north of Lahore.
It said in an ordeal that lasted several hours, the woman, the widowed mother of seven, was beaten, stripped and paraded naked through the village by the landlord and his sons after she refused to back his candidate in a local election.