{"id":51504,"date":"2014-06-11T16:40:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T13:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=51504"},"modified":"2014-06-11T16:40:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T13:40:30","slug":"cannibal-brothers-in-pakistan-sentenced-to-12-years-prison-51504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/cannibal-brothers-in-pakistan-sentenced-to-12-years-prison-51504\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannibal brothers in Pakistan sentenced to 12 years prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_51505\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51505\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-51505   \" alt=\"Police escorting one of the cannibal brother in Pakistan to a court.  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File Pic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>An Anti-Terrorism Court in Pakistan on Wednesday sentenced two cannibal brothers for 12 years rigorous imprison-ment.<\/h1>\n<p>Islamabad, June 11\/Nationalturk: A Pakistani court on Wednesday sentenced two brothers, who were arrested in April for eating human flesh, for 12 years rigorous imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The Anti-Terrorism Court in Sargodha district of Pakistan\u2019s most populous Punjab province province announced the verdict today after finding them involved in eating human flesh.<\/p>\n<p>Two brothers, Arif (35) and Farman (30) hailing from Darya Khan in Bhakkar district in Lahore were arrested in April this year for eating human flesh<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested Arif when the head of a toddler was recovered from their home in Kahawar Kalan town near Darya Khan. \u201cArif confessed to having cooked and eaten the rest of the body, while his brother Farman managed to flee but was later apprehended as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police had said that the brothers had dug up and devoured bodies from the graveyard before they were finally caught.<\/p>\n<h2>Cannibal brothers were previously arrested in 2011<\/h2>\n<p>The brothers were previously arrested in April 2011 for eating human flesh. \u00a0They were found to have disinterred corpses in the local graveyard for the purpose of eating them.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers were sentenced to two years imprisonment. \u00a0Since\u00a0there has been\u00a0no laws related to cannibalism in Pakistan, the brothers were\u00a0convicted for &#8220;desecrating a grave&#8221; at that time.<\/p>\n<p>Both Arif and Farman are\u00a0married and have children\u00a0but\u00a0their wives have reportedly abandoned them.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Asia News<\/b><strong>\/ NationalTurk Pakistan News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Anti-Terrorism Court in Pakistan on Wednesday sentenced two cannibal brothers for 12 years rigorous imprisonment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,118,101,14],"tags":[48405,67728,70387,70383,70386,70384,67729,67733,13982,636,50729,55041,45059,70385,39801],"class_list":["post-51504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-anti-terrorism-court","tag-arif","tag-bhakkar","tag-cannibal-brothers","tag-darya-khan","tag-eating","tag-farman","tag-human-flesh","tag-lahore","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistani-court","tag-punjab-province","tag-rigorous-imprisonment","tag-sargodha","tag-verdict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}