PAK130517aa002 LAHORE, Pakistan — Four years ago, an online wedding video that went viral cost three of Afzal Kohistani’s brothers their lives.

The video showed two brothers dancing as women clapped at a wedding party in a northern Pakistan village. A council of elders issued a death sentence against the pair, as well as four women and a 12-year-old girl. Their crime: bringing dishonor on their families by violating a strict local code against men and women mingling.

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