Tag Archives : honor killings

According to a complaint of Amnesty International (AI), women in Iraq suffer from systematic discrimination and violence directed against them specifically because of their gender. AI has also noted that Iraqi law allows ‘honorable motives’ in murder cases of women by their husbands, parents, and teachers. These result in exemption from criminal [...]

In Nimroz, a Taliban-controlled province in Afghanistan, an eloping couple was publicly executed in front of a mosque. The local religious leaders said that the couple’s action runs against a religious decree, and was an ‘insult to Islam.’ The couple attempted to elope and run to Iran because their families disapproved their marriage plans. Taliban [...]

Upon the orders of a tribal council who wished to punish her family because her brother had sexual relations with a girl from a powerful clan and higher caste, Pakistani woman Mukhtar Mai was kidnapped and gang-raped in the eastern province of Punjab in 2002. The act was payment for her family’s ‘crime of honor.’ Her brother was sodomized by a [...]