Honor Killing

Police are continuing a massive manhunt for an Afghan national in connection with the brutal murder of his former partner, a Syrian migrant, and her mother.

A judge sentenced a Jordanian national to death for carrying out two “honor killings” in 2012 as part of a plot to allegedly kill his daughter and four others.

Police in Pakistan have arrested Mufti Mohammad Qawi for his alleged role in the honor killing of social media star Qandeel Baloch. Baloch’s brother strangled the 26-year-old, who had become famous for posting seductive photos on Facebook, after she called Qawi a “hypocrite” on social media and accused him of violating the Ramadan fast.

A 33-year-old man’s parents flew from India to Florida to beat their son’s wife after he said she was “disobedient” towards him, police said.

ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted two Turkish men who were charged with aiding and abetting their younger brother in the 2005 shooting death of their sister in Germany. Hatun Surucu, a 23-year-old divorced mother, was killed

Bedouin woman Hanan al-Bakhiri, 19, who has been missing for 20 days, is feared kidnapped and murdered in an honor killing, police said Tuesday.

President Donald Trump’s executive order halting the importation of refugees from six terror-exporting countries also includes a section requiring the government to publicly release information on crimes committed by foreign nationals, including honor killings of women.

An anonymous newborn baby was found abandoned on Saturday outside a Gaza mosque, the fourth in the last month alone, according to local news outlets.

The case of the honor killing of Qandeel Baloch, a model and outspoken feminist who became known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian” before her brother strangled her to death at age 26, will once again have to wait, as regional lawyers are on strike in a nation in which their trade is often dangerous.

Homosexuals in Afghanistan are forced to live in fear and secrecy to avoid being kidnapped, robbed, beaten up, blackmailed, arbitrarily arrested in what police describe as “honey traps,” and murdered by relatives in “honor killings,” reports the Associated Press (AP), citing first-hand accounts by various Afghan gay men.

A Jordanian Christian minister was forced to resign after it emerged he was involved in his sister’s honor killing in the 1980s.

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Thirty-five-year-old Nasir Hussain, of Pakistan’s Punjab province, has been arrested for the double murders of his sisters, 22-year-old Kosar and 28-year-old Gulzar Bibi, in the latest “honor killing” case. Hussain shot his sisters because they married the men of their choice, for love.

The sister and cousin of social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch have reportedly been arrested by Pakistani police for their “possible involvement” in the “honor killing” of the star known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian.”

Allah Ditta, 24, was stabbed repeatedly before five men cut off his arms, lips, and nose, leaving him to bleed to death in Dera Ghazi Khan district, Pakistan. Ditta had allegedly had “an affair” with a woman who wished to elope with him but was forced by family to remain with her husband.

The brother of Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch says he is “not embarrassed at all” about having drugged and strangled her to death, noting that after her accusations against an Islamic cleric led to his removal, he felt he had no choice but to stop her from continuing to “dishonor” the family.

Pakistani social media celebrity Qandeel Baloch, known as “Pakistan’s Kim Kardashian,” was strangled to death, allegedly by her brother, in what authorities are investigating as an “honor killing,” according to BBC. Baloch’s death reportedly came after an argument ensued between the two, which stemmed

The UK Daily Mail tells the story of Shabnam Nayeem, a Muslim woman in India who refused to participate in an arranged marriage and was targeted by her brother Mohammad in an “honor killing.”

A pregnant woman and her husband in Pakistan were tortured and murdered by relatives who disapproved of their marriage, an incident that is part of what is becoming a growing trend in the south Asian nation.

As Dawn News points out, “honor killings” involving immolation are distressingly common in Pakistan, often triggered by a young woman marrying someone her family disapproves of. The murder of 18-year-old Zeenat Rafique was especially diabolical because her mother lured her into an ambush by offering to reconcile with her.

An Indian family hacked to death a 22-year-old man after he married their higher caste daughter.

The victim, a 20-year-old woman known as “Rokstan M,” is one refugee who had a strong case for asylum. She was gang-raped in Syria, emigrated to Germany two years ago, and found employment with the German government as a translator.

There was a time when most people believed that honor killings – if they had even heard of them – took place far away, in places like Afghanistan and Algeria and Iran.

In the wild, wild East, in the tribal “badlands” between Pakistan and Muslim India, few girls or women willingly risk being honor killed for refusing an arranged marriage or for wanting to leave an exceptionally violent husband.

The Harris County District Attorney (Houston, Texas) is prosecuting a man for one murder and suspect his involvement in another that have been identified as alleged honor killings. The practice of honor killing has long gone out of style in most of the world. But, in some parts of the Muslim world it is a fundamental tenant of their religion as interpreted under Sharia Law .