'honor' crimes

Brothers arrested over string of recent 'honor killings' in Lod

Publication Date: 
October 24, 2010
Source: 
Haazetz
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Two brothers from Ramle, Ramadan and Khaled Musrati, were arrested yesterday on suspicion of involvement in four recent murders in the city of Lod.

Honour Crimes Shame the World - Robert Fisk

Publication Date: 
September 7, 2010
Source: 
The Independent
Robert Fisk

 

It's one of the last great taboos: the murder of at least 20,000 women a year in the name of 'honour'. Nor is the problem confined to the Middle East: the contagion is spreading rapidly.

UK: Parents re-arrested over suspected 'honour' killing

Publication Date: 
September 2, 2010
Source: 
The Guardian
Shafila Ahmed

 

The parents of a Muslim teenager thought to have been the victim of an "honour" killing were arrested today on suspicion of her murder, almost seven years after she went missing.

The remains of Shafilea Ahmed, 17, from Warrington, Cheshire, were discovered by the river Kent near Sedgwick, Cumbria, in February 2004, five months after she disappeared from her home in Great Sankey.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2010 CANAN ALTINTAŞ DİYARBAKIR - RADİKAL

A 17-year-old woman found dead one month ago was allegedly murdered by her 15-year-old brother in an “honor killing” after she left the women’s shelter where she was staying, daily Radikal reported Wednesday.

'Honour killing' suspected in murder of British couple in Pakistan

Publication Date: 
August 8, 2010
Source: 
The Guardian

 

A British couple have been murdered in  in a suspected "honour killing" after calling off their daughter's marriage.

A man and his wife from the Alum Rock area of Birmingham, named locally as taxi driver Gul Wazir and wife Bagum, had reportedly visited the country to resolve a dispute over a wedding.

India: Prosecute Rampant ‘Honor’ Killings

Publication Date: 
July 18, 2010
Source: 
Human Rights Watch


(New York) July 18, 2010 -- The Indian government should urgently investigate and prosecute those responsible for the recent spurt in reported "honor" killings, Human Rights Watch said today. The government should also strengthen laws that protect against kinship, religion-based, and caste-based violence, and take appropriate action against local leaders who endorse or tolerate such crimes, Human Rights Watch said.

Murders to protect family or community "honor" have increased in recent months, in the northern states of Haryana, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh, where unofficial village councils, called khap panchayats, issue edicts condemning couples for marrying outside their caste or religion and condemn marriages within a kinship group (gotra), considered incestuous even though there is no biological connection. To enforce these decrees and break up such relationships, family members have threatened couples, filed false cases of abduction, and killed spouses to protect the family's "honor." Some local politicians and officials have been sympathetic to the councils' edicts, implicitly supporting the violence.

"Officials who fail to condemn village council edicts that end in murder are effectively endorsing murder," said Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director for Human Rights Watch. "Politicians and police need to send these councils a strong message to stop issuing edicts on marriages."

In India, Castes, Honor and Killings Intertwine

Publication Date: 
July 9, 2010
Source: 
New York Times
Candlelight vigil in New Delhi for Nirupama Pathak, a 22 year old Hindu woman from eastern India.


KODERMA, India — When Nirupama Pathak left this remote mining region for graduate school in New Delhi, she seemed to be leaving the old  for the new. Her parents paid her tuition and did not resist when she wanted to choose her own career. But choosing a husband was another matter.

Her family was Brahmin, the highest Hindu caste, and when Ms. Pathak, 22, announced she was secretly engaged to a young man from a caste lower than hers, her family began pressing her to change her mind. They warned of social ostracism and accused her of defiling their religion.

Canada: Aqsa Parvez’s father and son have both been given life sentences for her murder

Publication Date: 
June 16, 2010
Source: 
TheToronto Star
Photo: The Toronto Star

For years, Muhammad Parvez had been in absolute control of his family: he set the rules, he made the decisions and he told his eight children, including the adult ones, exactly how to live their lives.

Italy: Moroccan Father on Trial for Daughter's Honour Killing

Publication Date: 
June 14, 2010
Source: 
Adnkronos International
Sanaa Dafani


Pordenone, 14 June (AKI) – The fast-track trial of a Moroccan immigrant accused of stabbing his 18-year-old daughter to death last year in an ‘honour’ killing opened in the northeastern Italian town of Pordenone on Monday.

India: Women Advocate Against Honour Killings & For Free Choice Marriages

Publication Date: 
June 14, 2010
Source: 
Women's Feature Service
Women campaign against honour killings, against justification of crimes of honor as "tradition," and for free choice marriages


New Delhi - Honour killings in north India are making the headlines with sickening regularity. The unexplained death of Nirupama Pathak in her Jharkhand home is just one incident.