International: International Campaign Against Honour Killings
Posted by Ginger on Wednesday, September 05, 2007 (12:56:46) (850 reads)

Over 5000 women and girls are killed every year by family members in so-called 'honour killings', according to the UN. These crimes occur where cultures believe that a woman's unsanctioned sexual behaviour brings such shame on the family that any female accused or suspected must be murdered. Reasons for these murders can be as trivial as talking to a man, or as innocent as suffering rape.

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Pakistan: Rays of Development despatch
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (21:49:02) (6 reads)

OKARRA: The daughter of the superintendent of police was allegedly shot dead by her in-laws in Beerbal village, Okara. Sobia, daughter of Bahawalpur special branch SP Rao Saleem Akhtar, was wedded to Rao Imran. She was living with her children in Lahore on the day of the occurrence, she visited the house of her in-laws and she was shot dead in the washroom.

On the report of Sobia's brother Fazeel Akhtar, the police have lodged a case against her husband Imran, mother-in-law Bilqees Bibi, brother-in-law Amir and his wife Maliha Bibi. Fazeel Akhtar said Imran has acknowledged to the crime and sought apology from him. However, Imran denied the charges and said that Sobia committed suicide. He assumed that he ran towards the washroom after hearing a gun shot and found her dead. DPO Ihsan Saddique, DSP Investigation Chaudhry Mohammad Zulfiqar and DSP City Mohammad Younas reached the spot and sent the body to mortuary for an autopsy.

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Pakistan: Woman killed for working outside the home
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 (21:44:03) (9 reads)

SARGODHA: A sister was slaughtered by two brothers because she refused to give up her job. In Chak No 88 NB, Sargodha, NaziaMasih, the daughter of Ashraf Masih, was a Lady Health Visitor (LHV) in the district hospital. Her two brothers had doubted her virtue. They believed that she had a physical relation with some unknown man and thought that due to her work she might become involved in prostitution. Due to this, her two brothers Munawar Masih and Nasir Masih first of all tried to stop her through coercion but when this failed they butchered her with knives.

[Warning: Disturbing picture below the fold]

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Israel: Woman beaten and threatened with death for divorce
Posted by DianaNammi on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 (09:33:42) (46 reads)

Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed 'chastity guards'

A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the 'modesty squad' who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships with men, an indictment filed Thursday by the Jerusalem Prosecution reveals.

According to the indictment, 29-year-old Elhanan Buzaglo and six other men forced their way into the woman's apartment in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Maalot Dafna several months ago. The Prosecution says that the woman once belonged to the ultra-Orthodox community, but abandoned that life after her divorce in 2005.

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Pakistan: Man and woman killed in separate incidents
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Monday, August 18, 2008 (21:45:30) (52 reads)

SHOR KOT: In Chak No 12D four armed men opened fire on a man and killed him, suspecting him to have illicit relations with their sister.

According to our sources Saleem, Azeem, Younas and Shokat believed that Muhammad Asif son of Rub Nawaz have illicit relations with their sister.

On the day of this incident Muhammad Asif was coming back to his home after meeting his relatives, the four criminals who were hiding in his way stopped him on the road and fired a bullet at him and ran away. Shor Kot Police Station has registered a case against the criminals on the request of the father of the victim.

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Pakistan: Cruelty meets beauty for Pakistan burn victims
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Monday, August 18, 2008 (21:26:54) (76 reads)

Cruelty meets beauty for Pakistan burn victimsLAHORE, Pakistan - Saira Liaqat squints through her one good eye as she brushes a woman's hair. Her face, most of which the acid melted years ago, occasionally lights up with a smile. Her hands, largely undamaged, deftly handle the dark brown locks.

A few steps away in this popular beauty salon, Urooj Akbar diligently trims, cleans and paints clients' fingernails. Her face, severely scarred from the blaze that burned some 70 percent of her body, is somber. It's hard to tell if she's sad or if it's just the way she now looks.

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Iran: 2000 demonstrate against 'honour' killings in Iran
Posted by DianaNammi on Monday, August 18, 2008 (15:59:33) (71 reads)



On 14 August, in a village called Kani Dinar in the Mariwan region of Iran a "father" stabbed her 18 years old, daughter, Fereshteh Nejati, and slit her throat, almost severing her head in the street because she sought a divorce. Fereshteh had been forced into a marriage when she was 14 years old.

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Nigeria: Underground sex in the conservative north
Posted by Kawthar on Sunday, August 17, 2008 (22:45:23) (61 reads)

KANO, 15 August 2008 (PlusNews) - Idris is a pimp and makes no bones about it. Because of the way the sex industry works in Nigeria's northern city of Kano, he and the women he pimps have a co-dependant relationship – they exploit each other.

Kano's history dates back 1,400 years as an iron-working centre that adopted Islam in the 14th century and grew on the back of the trans-Saharan caravan trade.

Outside the old city walls is a quarter known as the sabon gari, where "foreigners" traditionally lived, segregated from the Hausa-speaking indigenous population. With sharia law applicable in Kano, it is in the bars and hotels of the sabon gari - where Islamic jurisprudence does not reach - that Idris does his business.

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Pakistan: Five women buried alive
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Thursday, August 14, 2008 (22:26:08) (450 reads)

The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information from a remote area of Balochistan province, that five women were buried alive, allegedly by the younger brother of Mr. Sadiq Umrani, the provincial minister and a prominent leader of the Pakistan People's Party, the ruling party. However, police have still not arrested the perpetrators after one month of the incident.

CASE DETAILS:

The Umrani tribe is mainly concentrated in the Jafarabad and Naseerabad districts of Balochistan provice that are about 300 kilometers from Quetta city, the provincial capital. Mr. Sadiq Umrani, the provincial minister for housing and construction, was elected to the Balochistan Assembly in the February 18, 2008 elections from Dera the Murad Jamali constituency of district Naseerabad.
The incident of the women being buried alive occurred in a remote village, the Baba Kot, 80 kilometers away from Usta Mohammad city of Jafferabad district. It is believed that due to the influence of the minister and his brother the incident was not reported in the media.

According to the information received, five women were Ms. Fatima, wife of Umeed Ali Umrani, Jannat Bibi, wife of Qaiser Khan, Fauzia, daughter of Ata Mohammad Umrani, and two other girls, aged between 16 to 18 years. They were at the house of Mr. Chandio at Baba Kot village and to leave for a civil court at Usta Mohammad, district Jafarabad, so that three of the girls could marry the men of their choice. Their decision to have marriage in court was the result of several days of discussions with the elders of the tribe who refused them permission to marry. The names of two younger girls were not ascertained because of strong control of tribal leaders in the area.

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Pakistan: Murders in Pakistan
Posted by Joanne_Jowan on Thursday, August 14, 2008 (22:20:39) (79 reads)

LAHORE: The bodies of two sisters, allegedly killed by their brother, were found in the River Ravi in the jurisdiction of Shahdara Town police on Thursday.

According to the police, the victims identified as Riffat, 25, and Fozia, 23, were strangulated to death with the help of the ropes which were also found on their necks when the bodies were recovered from the river.

The duty officer of the police station said they were residents of Sadaat Colony situated near Badami Bagh and were running a beauty parlour in the same area.

He said the victims' brother, Ghulam Murtaza, allegedly killed them on the suspicion of their illicit relations with some men of the area.

The police officer said the killer had confessed to his crime. A case has been registered against the accused on the complaint of his brother Ghulam Mustafa.

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