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Honour killing is an act of murder, in which a person is murdered for his or her perceived immoral behaviour. Such "immoral behaviour" may take the form of alleged marital infidelity, refusal to submit to an arranged marriage, demanding a divorce, perceived flirtatious behaviour and being raped.
An honor killing (American English), honour killing (Commonwealth English), or shame killing [1] is a traditional form of murder in which a person is killed by or at the behest of members of their family or their partner, due to culturally sanctioned beliefs that such homicides are necessary as retribution for the perceived dishonoring of the ...
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.
Being the victim of an honor killing in Peoria, Arizona Noor Faleh Almaleki [ 1 ] ( Arabic : نور فالح المالكي ; c. 1989 – November 2, 2009) was an Iraqi American woman who was murdered by her father in an honor killing .
There are conflicting estimates on the number of honor killings in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Free Women's Organization of Kurdistan (FWOK) released a statement on International Women's Day 2015 noting that "6,082 women were killed or forced to commit suicide during the past year in Iraqi Kurdistan, which is almost equal to the number of the ...
Pela Atroshi (12 October 1979 – 24 June 1999) was a 19-year-old Kurdish woman from Farsta, Sweden.She was murdered in an honor killing by family members after being taken from Sweden to Duhok.
Two parents allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter outside her high school in an attempted “honor killing” for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man, according to police.
Being the victim of an honor killing in St. Louis Palestina Zein "Tina" Isa ( Arabic : فلسطين زين عيسى , December 3, 1972 – November 6, 1989) was a Brazilian-American teenage girl murdered in an honor killing in St. Louis, Missouri , by her parents, Zein and Maria Isa. [ 1 ]