An Italian appeals court Friday upheld life sentences for a Pakistani couple convicted of murdering their 18-year-old daughter in a so-called honor killing after she refused an arranged marriage. The case shocked many Italians and became a symbol of the brutal mistreatment of immigrant women who rebel against inflexible family rules.
The number of so-called “honour-based” crimes has risen by over 60 per cent in England over the past two years, according to police data.
An 18-year-old young man was kidnapped, beaten and thrown in the Seine river after being lured to an area by the brother of his girlfriend.
Two brothers have been indicted in the Swedish city of Gothenburg for killing their own mother and injuring her boyfriend in an apparently honour-motivated murder.
A 44-year-old Somali-Dane has been indicted by a Danish court for selling his 12-year-old daughter into sexual slavery in Kenya and Somalia and forcibly circumcising her.
A study has revealed that over 35,000 girls in Belgium are either victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) or are at risk.
Concerns have grown in Sweden about children sent abroad and placed into forced marriages over the school summer holidays.
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BERLIN (AP) – German prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged two Afghan brothers with murder over the July killing of their sister, whom they allegedly wanted to punish for her Western way of life.
A 14-year-old Bangladeshi girl living in Ostia near Rome, Italy, was hospitalised after her 17-year-old brother allegedly brutally beat her for not wearing an Islamic veil.
A Chechen teen girl was allegedly stabbed by her older brother for acting too European and was also raped by her father.
According to an activist group that deals with honour violence and oppression, young girls continue to be flown out of Sweden for forced marriages and female genital mutilation (FGM) despite bans.
Berlin Senator Elke Breitenbach has denied a possible honour motive in the case of an Afghan woman who was allegedly murdered by her brothers who disapproved of her Western way of life.
Despite being in force for over a year, the Swedish laws against child marriages have yet to see anyone charged for marrying a minor so far.
The Liberal Party will investigate the possibility of banning marriage between cousins in Sweden to tackle honour culture.
Swedish police statistics revealed there had been nearly 1,000 reports of crimes thought to be motivated by honour culture in 2020.
A Muslim migrant from Algeria living in the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec is said to have repeatedly threatened to kill his daughters if they refused to wear the Islamic veil.
A teacher has expressed her opposition to a mooted ban on headscarves in schools, saying those in favour have no place in the country at all.
A woman who forced her teenage daughter to marry a male relative who had raped and impregnated her as a child has been jailed for four and a half years in the UK’s first successful prosecution of its kind.
Girls in Sweden are being advised that if they fear being taken overseas to be subjected to a forced marriage or Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to hide a spoon in their underwear.
