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It was found in the said report that the photos of the girls, who were made to appear before the commission, did not match the images of the girls appearing in the said video." [ 9 ] In August 2018, on the order of the Supreme Court, the Kohistan police registered a first information report for the alleged honour killing of the five girls ...
The Shafia family murders took place on June 30, 2009, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.Shafia sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with their father's first wife Rona Muhammad Omar, 52 (all of Afghan origin), were found dead inside a car that was discovered underwater in front of the northernmost Kingston Mills lock of the Rideau Canal, [1] after they were reported missing. [2]
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Around 2017, City University of New York John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Ric Curtis led a team that analyzed honor killing statistics from Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom and made a proxy estimate for the United States based on that, resulting in an estimated 23–27 annual honor killings in the U.S.
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (Urdu: دریا میں ایک لڑکی: معافی کی قیمت) is a 2015 documentary film directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy about honor killings in Pakistan. The film is produced by Tina Brown and Sheila Nevins in collaboration with HBO Documentary Films. [1]
Human rights advocates are in wide agreement that the reported cases do not reflect the full extent of the issue, as honour killings have a high level of support in Pakistan's rural society, and thus often go unreported. [27] [28] Frequently, women & men murdered in honour killings are recorded as having committed suicide or died in accidents. [28]
The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, Yakin Ertürk, reported that she was told that a "family council of male relatives living in Sweden and Australia decided that Pela had to die to cleanse the family honour". [5] [6] Pela eventually returned home of her own accord as she missed her family. [5]
Palestina Zein Isa, named after Palestine, was born on December 3, 1972, in Mato Grosso, Brazil. [2] The youngest of seven siblings, she lived in a southern portion of the City of St. Louis in an apartment complex, [3] and attended Dewey Junior High School [4] and Roosevelt High School in St. Louis.