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The honour killing inspired Ajay Sinha to produce a film titled Khap—A Story of Honour Killing starring Om Puri, Yuvika Chaudhary, Govind Namdeo, Anuradha Patel, and Mohnish Behl, to raise awareness about the khap ' s diktats. [57] [58] It will cost ₨25–30 million and was expected to enter theatres by late July 2010. [59]
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 ...
Honor killing victim 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 .
The death of Israa Ghrayeb took place on 22 August 2019 in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem. [1] Israa Ghrayeb, a 21-year-old Muslim make-up artist, was beaten to death in an "honor killing" because she posted a selfie with her fiancé a day before they were supposed to get engaged.
Lizzie O'Neill (also known as Lily O'Neill and by the alias Honour Bright) was a Dublin woman who was abducted, fatally shot, and dumped at Ticknock, County Dublin, Ireland in an alleged revenge killing and act of vigilantism in June of 1925.
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.
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 ]