Brothers in ‘honor killing’ could get bail
Roni Singer-Heruti; 15/5/08
Two years have passed since indictments were filed against Salame Abu Ghanem and Mohammed Abu Ghanem for murdering their 19-year-old sister, Reem, and the end of the trial is nowhere in sight - even though the two confessed to the crime during the investigation. Legal foot-dragging has prevented the Tel Aviv District Court from even setting dates for the trial sessions. For a year and a half, the court has not conducted sessions on the matter, other than to set new dates. Now the police fear the same legal delays may bring about the Lod brothers’ release. In a Supreme Court session last week, Justice Esther Hayut was asked to extend the remand of the two for the seventh time.
See: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/983476.html
Tags: Honor Killing, Israel, Womens Rights
May 17th, 2008 at 3:40 am
The STOP HONORCIDE! campaign was launched on Mother’s Day 2008. The goal of the campaign is to prosecute honorcides to the fullest extent of the law. We want honorcide to be classified as a hate crime and we advocate for every existing hate crime legislation to be amended to include honorcide.
http://www.reformislam.org/honorcide/
May 17th, 2008 at 7:35 am
I would love to know what percentage of dishonor killings cases result in punishments that are proportional to the crimes? My guess would be single digit.
Ellen R. Sheeley, Author
“Reclaiming Honor in Jordan”