November 2008

Lidia Motylska

Published Date: 12 November 2008
By Jeni Harvey

A TEENAGER was brutally murdered by her boyfriend's Muslim flatmate because he did not approve of him going out with a Catholic.

Farzana

Days after a man killed two of his cousins in the name of family honour in the Delhi suburb of Greater Noida, another brutal case of honour killing has come to light.

Emirati man

Dubai Police arrested the son of a Gulf diplomat for allegedly killing an Emirati man in a suspected case of honour killing, police sources said.

Manish Kumar

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Two Afghani Schoolgirls

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two men on a motorcycle used water pistols to spray acid on girls walking to school Wednesday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, blinding at least two of them, milit

Sunita and Jasbar Singh

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BALLA, India (Reuters) - Five armed men burst into the small room and courtyard at dawn, just as 21-year-old, 22-week pregnant, Sunita was drying her face on a towel.

Name Unknown

CAIRO: A farmer has been arrested for strangling and decapitating his daughter over suspicions that she was having a relationship with a man in their village in southern Egypt, state news age

Farzaneh

Honor killing claims life of 17-year-old girl

Name Unknown

Jordanian boy murders sister for 'honour'

Sarah (40) and Momal (15)

Mother and daughter slain by husband/father on a grudge