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Jordan: ‘Honor killing’: brother on murder charge

Jordan: ‘Honour killing’: brother on murder charge
AFP reports: “A Jordanian youth has been charged with premeditated murder  after allegedly stabbing to death his divorced teenage sister because she ‘knew many men’, police said.”
— “The suspect, 18, ‘stabbed to death his 17-year-old divorced sister with a kitchen knife'”
— “Murder is punishable by the death penalty in Jordan, but in the case of so-called ‘honour killings,’ a court usually commutes or reduces sentences, particularly if the victim’s family urges leniency.”