Her son Sajad says she was told she would be hanged at dawn on Sunday and visits by her family and lawyer have been denied.

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, was told on Saturday that she was to be hanged at dawn on Sunday, but the sentence was not carried out, it emerged tonight.

Mohammadi Ashtiani wrote her will and embraced her cellmates in Tabriz prison just before the call to morning prayer, when she expected to be led to the gallows, her son Sajad told the Guardian.

The Dilara Aliyeva Women's Rights Society has released a report on its ‘Little Brides' project, revealing that in some regions girls are getting married as young as 12 or 13 years old. The participants of the project have called for the state to prevent these early marriages from taking place.

The project took four months to complete and was funded by the NGO Global Fund for Women. Seminars were held in Shirvan, Sabirabad, Lankaran, Jalilabad and Baku; 150 people (55 men and 95 women) at the age from 20 to 60 years old were polled on their opinions of early/child marriages. Most people (70 men) had a ‘negative' attitude on the subject, 30 responded ‘very negative', but 20 people thought it was normal.

New Delhi, Aug 31 (PTI) Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today disfavoured framing of any special provision to deal with the cases of 'honour' killing, saying that the existing law is sufficient enough to handle such matters. "Murder is murder, whoever commits (it) with whatever motive. It's not a question of (involvement of) a panchayat or an individual. Law is already there (to deal with such cases). Efforts should be made to get them punished (under the existing law)," he told reporters here.

In a suspected honour killing, a 21-year-old boy was allegedly murdered by his in-laws despite the Punjab and Haryana High Court having directed the Sangrur police to protect the couple.

The police have registered an FIR against the relatives of Manjit Kaur, a resident of Ubbawal village, who had married Raja Ram, a resident of Kutta Khana village, in July.

In a case of attempted honour killing, a man shot at his niece who was riding on a motorcycle with her lover near Hindon Air Force station here Tuesday, police said.

Jyoti, a 23-year-old government school teacher in Delhi, was travelling on a motorcycle with her lover Deepak from the national capital to Dadri.

For £5,000 he tracked down young women fleeing a forced marriage and brought them back to their families

On the face of it, Zakir was simply a veteran taxi driver and a popular member of the community in Bradford. Few customers would have realised that behind his bubbly exterior he provided another, much more sinister service. For around £5,000, Zakir would track down women and girls who had run away from home to escape a forced marriage. A bounty hunter, Zakir's mission was to bring them back to their families.

LAHORE: In another honour-killing incident, a man killed his 35-year-old widowed sister over suspicion of an illicit relation with a man in Ghaziabad. The episode took place on Friday. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital where she succumbed to injuries.

The deceased was identified as Abida Bibi, a mother of three. Police said that the victim’s husband, Zulfiqar, had died some months back after which she was living with her children in a rented house in Shahalam Colony, Street 11, Ghaziabad.

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Haryana will soon establish its own human rights commission to prevent violation of human rights like honour killings and attacks on Dalits.

"The state government has directed the administration to take necessary steps to establishing our own human rights commission at the earliest. The commission will be headed by a retired chief justice of a high court," Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said Saturday.