http://stophonourkillings.com/ International Campaign Against Honour Killings en-us Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:49:02 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly International Campaign Against Honour Killings News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://stophonourkillings.com/images/logo.jpg http://stophonourkillings.com/ http://stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2939 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. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:49:02 GMT http://stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2938 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] Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:44:03 GMT http://stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2937 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. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:33:42 GMT http://stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2936 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. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:45:30 GMT http://stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2935 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. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:26:54 GMT http://stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2934 Le 14 août, dans le village de Kani Dinar (région de Marivan, Kurdistan d’Iran), Fereshteh Nejati, âgée de 18 ans, a été poignardée en pleine rue par son père, qui lui a coupée la gorge et donnée plusieurs coups de couteau au visage parce qu’elle avait demandé le divorce. Fereshteh avait été forcée de se marier à lorsqu’elle avait quatorze ans. Elle a fuit dans la maison de son oncle pour obtenir un abri après que son père l’ait menacée de mort, mais son père est venu pour l’emmener de force et l’a assassinée le jour même. Plus de 2000 personnes se sont rassemblées dans la ville de Marivan pour manifester contre les crimes « d’honneur » puis se sont rendues jusqu’à l’hôpital. De l’argent a été collecté pour que le corps de Fereshte soit enterré dignement. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:43:51 GMT http://stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2933 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. Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:59:33 GMT http://stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2932 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. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:45:23 GMT http://stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2931 Die Familienrechtlerin Gülsen Celebi setzt sich mutig für die Rechte der Frauen ein. Der Mord an einer Mandantin und deren Tochter brachte die Anwältin Gülsin Celebi aus Düsseldorf in die Schlagzeilen. Sie lässt sich im Einsatz für Frauenrechte nicht einschüchtern und beschreibt ihre Erfahrungen jetzt in dem Buch "Kein Schutz nirgends". DÜSSELDORF - Eigentlich wäre sie eine von vielen Anwälten landesweit mit dem Schwerpunkt Familienrecht und Strafrecht, die ihr tägliches Geschäft gut und routiniert erledigen. Ist sie aber nicht - Gülsen Celebi, 36. Sie sitzt in ihrer Kanzlei in Düsseldorf an der Graf-Adolf-Straße, und wenn sie von dem „Vorfall“ erzählt, der sie ungewollt in die Schlagzeilen brachte, dann werden die Argumente dieser zarten Frau schneidend scharf. Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:15:43 GMT http://stophonourkillings.com/?name=News&file=article&sid=2930 Zwangsheirat ist eine Menschenrechtsverletzung und muss als solche deutlich öffentlich geächtet werden”, erklärte der Justizminister und Integrationsbeauftragte der Landesregierung, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Goll (FDP) in Stuttgart. Zwangsverheiratungen vor allem junger Migrantinnen und Gewalt im Namen der „Ehre” seien daher auf das Schärfste zu verurteilen. „Es ist daher nicht nachvollziehbar, dass die Bundesregierung trotz entsprechender Vereinbarung im Koalitionsvertrag den auf Initiative Baden-Württembergs vom Bundesrat beschlossenen Entwurf für ein Zwangsheirat-Bekämpfungsgesetz seit Jahren blockiert”, kritisierte Goll. In diesem Zusammenhang sprach sich Goll auch gegen die kürzlich von der Bundesregierung beschlossene Streichung des Verbots der religiösen Voraustrauung im Personenstandsgesetz aus. „Mit dieser Streichung setzt der Staat genau das falsche politische Signal: Traditionalisten und Ultrakonservative vor allem aus dem islamischen Bereich, aber auch Sektenanhänger werden den Wegfall dieses Verbots geradezu als Einladung verstehen, Ehen verstärkt nur noch nach den Vorgaben ihrer Religion und Tradition zu schließen. Die betroffenen Frauen sind dann zumeist schutz- und rechtlos, da diese Ehen zivil- und familienrechtlich keinerlei Wirkungen entfalten”, klagte Goll. Er forderte zudem die Bundesregierung auf, anstatt das Verbot der religiösen Voraustrauung zu streichen, dieses vielmehr um eine Bußgeldbewehrung zu ergänzen und damit effizienter zu gestalten. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:49:44 GMT