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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 ...
Several honor killings have been documented in the United States. As of 2012, there is no central agency that collects data across all jurisdictions in regards to honor violence in the United States. [citation needed] There is reluctance among some organizations to label events as honor killings to avoid stigmatizing Muslim and Arab cultures. [1]
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.
Yaser Abdel Said (Arabic: ياسر سعيد; born January 27, 1957) is an Egyptian-American convicted murderer. For 12 years, Said evaded arrest for the January 1, 2008, fatal shootings of his two daughters, whose bodies were found in his abandoned taxi cab in Irving, Texas.
A Washington, D.C. man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed his grandmother to death and then texted a photograph of her dead body to other family members last Friday.
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 ]
An Italian court sentenced two parents to lifetime imprisonment on Tuesday for killing their teenage daughter after she refused to travel to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. The so-called honour ...
[9] [2] The court found that the father and the uncles had planned and carried out the murder together. [9] Rezkar and Dakhaz were found guilty on 12 January 2001 and sentenced to life in prison. [5] [8] Svea Court of Appeal confirmed the sentence in June 2001. [3] The case was the first honor killing trial in Sweden. [9]