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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:
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]
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]
Unarmed police officers who tackled a man responsible for a series of shootings in the Scottish Highlands are to be honoured for their bravery by Police Scotland, the force has said.
ABC Foreign Correspondent - Honour and Obey. (Documentary on UK HBV cases including Surjit Athwal; Al Jazeera: Everywoman- Honour Killings- 07 Dec 07- Part 2. (Interview with Surjit's brother) BBC Newsnight: Honour Killings by Navdip Dhariwal. (Sept 04) - Dhariwal visits the village where Surjit was last seen.
Honour killing victim Shafilea Iftikhar Ahmed ( Punjabi and Urdu : شفیلیہ افتخار احمد ; 14 July 1986 – 11 September 2003) was a British-Pakistani girl who was murdered by her parents in an honour killing at the age of 17, due to her refusal to accept a forced marriage .
The BBC has reported he was accused of gathering intelligence for Iran. He is due to go on trial on those charges at Woolwich Crown Court on Nov. 13. (Reporting by Michael Holden; editing by ...
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 ...