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The killing of Surjit Athwal was planned in the UK and done in India; Murder of Tulay Goren; Murder of Heshu Yones; So-called honour killings of people with Kurdish ethnic heritage: Pela Atroshi (Iraqi Kurdistan) Fadime Şahindal (Sweden) Hatun Sürücü (Germany) So-called honour killings of other people with Iraqi national heritage:
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 ...
Heshu's case was the first in the United Kingdom to be legally recognised and prosecuted as an honour killing; [4] [5] it led to the creation of a specialist task force [6] [7] in honour-based violence and, subsequently, to the reviewing of more than 100 previous cases of murder and suicide for any indication that "honour" was a factor. [8] [9]
Men must be educated about honour-based abuse in order to reverse the rise in cases across the UK, a Scottish charity claims. More education needed to cut back on honour-based abuse, says leading ...
Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer holds aDowning Street press conference on Tuesday (20 January) as a public inquiry is announced into the Southport killings. The prime minister is set to speak at 8 ...
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.
Pages in category "Honour killing in the United Kingdom" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Rania Alayed was a 25-year-old mother-of-three murdered by her husband in June 2013, in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) Chief Detective Inspector Bill Reade described this as an honour killing, [1] and the prosecutors stated she was murdered for trying to achieve independence from her husband and undergoing westernisation. [2]