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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 ...
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.
In 2002 alone over 382 people, about 245 women and 137 men, became victims of honor killings in the Sindh province of Pakistan. [221] Over the course of six years, more than 4,000 women have died as victims of honor killings in Pakistan from 1999 to 2004. [222]
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.
The so-called honour killing of 18-year-old Saman Abbas, who went missing in April 2021, shocked Italy. Her father, Shabbar Abbas, was convicted by the court in the northern city of Reggio Emilia ...
Victim of honor killing Ali "Alireza" Fazeli Monfared (January 2, 2001 – May 4, 2021) was a 20-year-old Iranian man who was kidnapped and decapitated by three men, namely his half-brother and two cousins, near the city of Ahvaz in Iran's Khuzestan Province because of his sexual orientation .
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.