Category: Women’s Rights Matter

Israel Beit Jan: Father shoots daughter in ‘honor killing’

(Israel) Beit Jan: Father shoots daughter in ‘honor killing’
— IPS warden arrested on suspicion of killing daughter over family honor

— ‘Honor’ Murder in Beit Jan
— “A resident of Beit Jan arrived at the Carmiel police station on
Saturday night with his badly wounded daughter, aged 23.”
— “The man told police he had shot the young woman in an ‘honor’ attack, because her behavior violated the tenets of Islam.”
— “Paramedics rushed to the scene, but were unable to save the young woman, who died of her wounds before reaching the nearest hospital.”

Israel: Yihya Farkhan confesses to attempting “honor killing” of sister by poison

(Israel) Details of Dana Bennett murder revealed
— Yihya Farkhan “also told the police that shortly prior to Bennett’s murder, he raped another woman living in Tiberias and tried to abduct her as well, but she got away. He also confessed to the attempted murder of his sister — by poison
— which he said was supposed to be an ‘honor killing.’ His sister survived the attempt.”
— Suspected Arab Israeli serial killer confesses: police
— “The suspect had also confessed to trying to poison his sister in what he called a failed ‘honour killing.'”

Turkey: More reports of “honor killings” in Turkey

Turkey: More reports of “honor killings” in Turkey

(Turkey) Another “Dishonorable” Murder Attempt
http://www.kamilpasha.com/2009/05/16/another-dishonorable-murder-attempt/
— “23-year-old Yildiz A. was stabbed in the stomach six or seven times and her nose and ears and part of her lip cut off, then she was dumped in a field on the road between Boyalan and Taskesen villages”
— “Yildiz A. was married and accused of having a relationship with another man, so a ‘family council’ was called and it was decided to kill her to ‘cleanse the family’s honor'”
— Previous Reports:
—- “Turkey: Poll – Over a Quarter Support Extremist ‘Honor Killings'”
—- “The dirty secret of Turkey’s honour killings”
—- “Turkey – Extremists Criticize ‘Feminist’ Reporting on So-Called ‘Honor Killings'”
—- “Turkey – Top court lenient on ‘honor killing'”

Europe: Number of “Honor Killings” in Europe Higher Than Thought

(Europe) Number of Honor Killings in Europe Higher Than Thought
— “A report compiled by the Council of Europe warns that the killings of women by family members to protect their so-called honor is far more extensive in Europe than previously believed.”
— “Here in Turkey the figures for 2007 show that over 200 women were killed here in the name of family or community honor, and that is frankly unacceptable in a modern Europe,” Austin said. “And it’s just the tip of the iceberg: In the United Kingdom; in Germany; in Belgium; in France; in Norway, there is evidence of honor crimes and honor killings.”

— Related website

Israel: Arab Web surfer asks: Can I kill my cousin for ‘family honor’?

(Israel) Arab Web surfer asks: Can I kill my cousin for ‘family honor’?
— “Should a man kill his female cousin who compromised the ‘family honor’?
A user posted that question to Israel’s fourth most popular Arabic-language
Web site, Panet, last week, and said he intended to do so.”

Thailand: 2 women shot dead, burned in South

(Thailand) Pattani: 2 women shot dead, burned in South
— “Two elderly women were shot dead and their bodies set on fire on
Wednesday in the latest atrocity in the troubled far south, police said. They blamed the murders on separatists.”
— “They said a 62-year-old woman and her 78-year-old mother-in-law returning home by motorbike from a market  in Pattani province were killed in a drive-by shooting.”