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NEWS ABOUT: honor killings

honor killings stories: 12 news summaries

Dad Runs Over 'Westernized' Daughter

Police hunt Arizona
man after woman
critically injured

Oct 22, 09 1:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police in Arizona are searching for an Iraqi man they believe mowed down his daughter and a friend in a parking lot because she had become "too Westernized" and abandoned traditional Iraqi values. The daughter, 20, is in a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. Her friend has been hospitalized... More »

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Arizona • honor killings • attempted murder

Runaway
Muslim Girl Sparks Furor

Girl converted to Christianity, sought protection from parents

Oct 15, 09 5:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Ohio teen has found herself straddling the fault line between the world's two biggest religions after converting to Christianity and running away from her Muslim parents. A judge in Florida, where 17-year-old Rifqa Bary was being sheltered by pastors she met on a Facebook group, has ruled that she... More »

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Muslim Americans • religion • Muslim • Christians • convert • honor killings • custody battle • Rifqa Bary

(Newser) - Hundreds of gay men have been executed in Iraq in the last few months, CNN reports. Though homosexuals are stigmatized in Iraq, and honor killings by family members have been reported, some of the recent murders have been carried out by government security forces, Human Rights Watch says. “The... More »

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homosexuality • Iraqi government • honor killings • Iraq war • stigma • death squads • gay Iraqis • gay men

(Newser) - A London man was beaten, stabbed, and forced to drink acid in what police believe was an "honor attack," the Daily Mail reports. The victim lost his tongue in the attack and remains in critical condition. Police believe the man, who was originally Danish, was attacked because he... More »

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London • Muslim • affair • Britain • honor killings • acid • attempted murder

NY Wife Beheading Blasted as 'Honor Killing'

Divorce linked to gruesome murder

Feb 18, 09 4:36 AM CST
(Newser) - The gruesome beheading of a wife in upstate New York by her Muslim husband has been blasted as a retaliatory "honor killing" against a spouse seeking divorce, reports the Buffalo News. “This was apparently a terroristic version of honor killing, a murder rooted in cultural notions about women’... More »

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murder • Muslim • beheading • honor killings • Muzzammil Hassan

Teens Buried Alive in 'Honor Killings' Spark Pakistan Rage

They wanted to choose their own husbands

Sep 5, 08 4:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - Nationwide protests have erupted in Pakistan since three teenage girls were buried alive in mid-July in a remote village because they planned to choose their own husbands, reports the Times of London. The girls—ages 14, 16 and 18—were abducted and tortured, then buried still breathing. Two older women... More »

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Taliban • Pakistan • women's rights • arranged marriage • tribal areas • honor killings • Balochistan • buried alive

Georgia Dad Charged in Daughter's 'Honor Killing'

Pakistani-born man denies strangling daughter who wanted divorce

Jul 9, 08 6:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Pakistani-born Georgia man appeared in court yesterday accused of strangling his daughter with a bungee cord after she filed for divorce, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The man's wife told police that he had argued with his 25-year-old daughter over her plans to end her arranged marriage. The father maintains... More »

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divorce • murder • Georgia • arranged marriage • honor killings

Iraqi 'Honor Killing' Mother Gunned Down

She had left husband after he murdered
their daughter

Jun 1, 08 8:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The ex-wife of an Iraqi man who beat, choked, and stabbed their 17-year-old daughter to death over an innocent crush on a British soldier has been gunned down, the Guardian reports. Leila Hussein had been staying in a series of safe houses while arrangements were being made to flee the... More »

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Iraq • women's rights • murder • honor killings

Honor Killing Dad: 'Daughter Deserved Death'

Iraqi proudly murdered 17-year-old over her crush on British solider

May 11, 08 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Iraqi father who suffocated and stabbed his 17-year-old daughter has only one regret over her honor killing: That he didn't murder her "the instant her mother delivered her." "Speaking with a foreign solider, she lost what is the most precious thing for any woman," Abdel-Qader... More »

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Iraq • murder • Basra • British military • Iraq police • honor killings

Iraqi Dad Freed in Daughter's 'Honor Killing'

She was suffocated and stabbed after falling for Brit soldier

Apr 27, 08 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iraqi authorities will not press charges against a father who murdered his 17-year-old daughter for falling in love with a British soldier because it was an "honor killing," reports the Guardian. The father stood on the girl's neck and stabbed her last month after he learned she was... More »

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Iraq • murder • honor killings

Brit Cops Accused of Failing 'Honor Killing' Victim

Police dismissed terrified woman's fears

Apr 3, 08 5:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two British police officers accused of failing to stop a young woman's "honor killing" are now facing a disciplinary hearing, the Guardian reports. After falling in love with a man not approved by her family, the Kurdish woman repeatedly told police of threats to her life and pleaded for... More »

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London • police • murder • honor killings

'Honor' Violence Against Women Surging in UK

Immigrant daughters forced into marriage, even killed for 'honor'

Feb 10, 08 7:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Violence in the name of family honor affects at least 17,000 women every year in Britain, and the number of unreported incidents may be drastically higher, the Independent reports. Forced marriages, sexual assaults, domestic violence, and so-called "honor" killings are reaching crisis levels, British officials say; they are... More »

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women's rights • England • domestic violence • immigrant • honor killings • forced marriage • sexual assault

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