Posts Tagged ‘Honour Killing’
Sunday, April 4th, 2010
Rana Husseini; 1/4/10
The criminal court on Wednesday sentenced a 19-year-old man to 10 years in prison for murdering his divorced sister in Aqaba in September 2009. The court declared the defendant, M. O., guilty of the manslaughter of his 17-year-old sibling and handed him a 15-year prison term. But the tribunal decided immediately to reduce the sentence to 10 years because the victim’s father and mother dropped charges against their son. The victim was married almost three months before her murder, according to court transcripts. In August, her husband divorced her and she returned home to live with her family, but the defendant “suspected her behaviour and morals”, the court stated.
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
Rana Husseini; 1/1/10
The Criminal Court on Wednesday sentenced a 61-year-old man to 10 years imprisonment after convicting him of murdering his teenage daughter for reasons related to family honour in 2008. The court first handed the defendant a 15-year prison term but decided immediately to commute the sentence to 10 years because the victim’s family dropped charges. The court said the victim was abducted, molested and assaulted by two men one month before the incident. She was taken to hospital for treatment and officers from the Family Protection Department examined her and arrested the two men who abducted her, the court added.
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Rana Husseini; 23/12/09
The criminal prosecutor on Monday charged a nightclub bodyguard with the premeditated murder of his wife for what the suspect claimed were reasons related to family honour, according to official sources. The 30-year-old suspect reportedly confessed to beating up his 21-year-old wife, “because she left the house with a man a week ago”, one source told The Jordan Times, quoting his initial testimony to interrogators. “The suspect said when his wife returned he informed her that everything was fine, and then beat her up at around dawn,” the source said, noting that the couple had been married for almost two months. The suspect at first tried to claim that he returned home at dawn on Monday and found his wife lying dead and that he tried to revive her, Police Spokesperson Major Mohammad Khatib said.
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Rana Husseini; 9/12/09
The Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced a 69-year-old man to 15 years in prison for murdering his daughter, allegedly in the name of family honour. The tribunal declared the defendant guilty of shooting his 26-year-old daughter six times in the head and neck at their home on April 8, 2007. The court rejected the defendant’s claims that he killed his daughter in a moment of rage and refused to commute the sentence after the victim’s family dropped charges against the defendant. “The tribunal decided not to halve the sentence because of the nature of the murder,” a senior judicial source told The Jordan Times.
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Rana Husseini; 2/12/09
Criminal Prosecutor Ali Abu Zeid on Monday charged a 30-year-old man with the premeditated murder of his niece in an Amman neighbourhood, official sources said. The 19-year-old victim, who was not identified by officials, was reportedly shot eight times in the head and legs by her uncle at her home on Sunday, one source said. “The suspect left the house and was arrested the following day by police while at his home,” the source told The Jordan Times.Upon questioning, the uncle told the police that he killed his niece to “cleanse his family’s honour”, the source added.
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
18/11/09
A Jordanian man was charged today with premeditated murder after allegedly stabbing to death his 22-year-old daughter because she became pregnant outside wedlock, police said. “The father and his brother took the girl on Saturday to a doctor because she suffered stomach pains, and everybody was surprised to learn that she was six months pregnant,” a police spokesman said. “On their way home, the father stabbed the girl with a sword 25 times in her stomach, killing her immediately as well as her unborn baby boy.” The source said the suspect has confessed to the crime following the murder, which took place in the Jordan Valley.
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Abdulaziz Abdulwahid; 13/10/09; (4 Items)
This story is not fiction nor straight from a television soap, but a real account that happened in the village of Al-Ridaifah, 60 km west of Sakaka. The main character in this drama is 45-year-old Naif bin Mitair bin Miraied Al-Ramali Al-Shammari who did not know that this was his real name until a few days ago. He was previously known as Naif bin Muhammad bin Ali Al-Qifaie. His story was told by his real biological father, Sheikh Mitair bin Miraied Al-Ramali, 70, the mayor of the village of Al-Ramal in Ridaifah. “I was in Kuwait in 1964 when a woman who was married to a man from the village of Um Al-Qalban in the region of Hail also came to Kuwait to visit her relatives,” said Al-Ramali, adding that the woman was a distant relative.
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Rana Husseini; 27/8/09
24-year-old farmer is expected to be charged with the premeditated murder of his sister, who died on Tuesday, nine days after being stabbed in the Jordan Valley, official sources said. The 17-year-old victim had her throat slit and was stabbed several times allegedly by her brother, who claimed family honour as his motive for the August 17 murder, the source said. The victim initially survived the stabbing and was rushed to a nearby hospital where she underwent several operations in an attempt to save her life, the source said. The victim died on Tuesday as a result of the stab wounds she sustained in the attack, the source told The Jordan Times. Her brother was originally charged with attempted murder and ordered detained for 15 days pending further investigation.
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
30/7/09
A Gaza man is being held on suspicion he bludgeoned his daughter with an iron chain, cracking her skull in a particularly brutal family honor killing, two human rights groups said Wednesday, citing police and forensics reports. The assault was triggered by Jawdat Najjar’s discovery that his daughter Fadia a 27-year-old divorced mother of five – owned a cell phone, the groups said. He suspected she used it to speak to a man outside the family, according to the groups’ reports. Dr. Mohammed Sultan, who examined the victim, said her head and face were bloodied, her body covered by bruises and that she suffered internal bleeding. Police confirmed Wednesday that Najjar turned himself in a day after the July 23 killing but did not give details.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
4/11/08
An Islamist rebel administration in Somalia has had a girl, 13, stoned to death for adultery after the child’s father reported that three men raped her. Amnesty International reported that the al-Shabab militia, which controls the southern city of Kismayo, arranged for 50 men to stone Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow in front of about 1000 spectators. Her father told Amnesty that when they tried to report her rape to the militia, she was accused of adultery and detained. None of the accused men were arrested. Amnesty’s David Copeman said: “This killing is yet another human rights abuse committed by the combatants to the conflict in Somalia, and again demonstrates the importance of international action to investigate and document such abuses”
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Rana Husseini; 30/10/08
Criminal Prosecutor Tareq Shqeirat on Wednesday said he charged a 25-year-old man with premeditated murder in connection with the death of his sister who was stabbed over the weekend for reasons related to family honour. The 19-year-old victim, who was not identified by officials, was stabbed to death, allegedly by the suspect, on Saturday at their family home, one official source told The Jordan Times. The suspect then headed to the nearest police station and turned himself in and handed over the knife he allegedly used in the murder, the source added. “The suspect claimed that he killed his sister after seeing images of her engaging in sexual activities with a man on a mobile phone,” the source said.
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Rana Husseini; 9/10/08
The criminal prosecutor on Wednesday charged a 25-year-old man with the premeditated murder of his father in the Jordan Valley a day earlier, official sources said. The suspect, a farmer, turned himself in to the police and reportedly confessed to murdering his father at dawn on Tuesday to prevent him from killing his sister, one official source told The Jordan Times. “The victim, who was released recently from prison as part of an amnesty before the Eid holiday, had been jailed for almost seven years for killing two of his daughters in so-called honour crimes,” the source told The Jordan Times. The suspect also told interrogators that he “killed his 65-year-old father because both his teenage sisters who were murdered were innocent of any wrongdoing”.
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Rana Husseini; 22/9/08
A 33-year-old man was charged on Sunday with the premeditated murder of his cousin in the latest so-called honour murder in the Kingdom, official sources said. The 29-year-old victim, who was not identified by officials, was reportedly shot once in the heart, allegedly by the suspect on Friday night, an official source told The Jordan Times. The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where attending doctors attempted to save his life, but were unable to do so because the bullet penetrated his heart, the source explained. Meanwhile, the suspect fled to an unknown destination after the shooting and was arrested by the authorities the following day, the source added. In his initial confession to investigators, the suspect said he shot his relative after suspecting that he was “involved in an affair with his divorced sister”
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Rana Husseini; 10/8/08
Authorities on Saturday charged a 50-year-old man with the manslaughter of his widowed niece in Zarqa on Thursday night, official sources said. The 38-year-old victim, who was not identified by officials, was reportedly stabbed to death by the suspect, who then attempted to stab himself, an official source told The Jordan Times. “Both were rushed to a nearby hospital where the victim was declared dead on arrival and the suspect was treated for light stab wounds,” the source said. A second source told The Jordan Times on Saturday that the victim’s father died on Friday of a heart attack brought on by the “grief and shock of losing his daughter”. In his initial testimony to authorities from his hospital bed, the suspect told investigators that he saw a man walking near the backyard of the victim’s home, the official source said.
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Rana Husseini; 10/5/08
Authorities are questioning a 22-year-old man, who allegedly killed his pregnant married sister on Wednesday evening for reasons related to family honour, official sources said. The 20-year-old victim, who was not identified by officials, received three fatal bullets to the side of her head, reportedly by her brother, at her in-laws’ house in the Wadi Seer area, according to the sources. The victim was three months pregnant, the sources said, adding that the suspect immediately headed to the nearest police station and turned himself in, handing over the gun he reportedly used to shoot his sibling, to officers on duty. “The suspect told police he had just killed his sister to cleanse his family’s honour,” the source told The Jordan Times.
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
Rana Husseini; 2/5/08
The Criminal Court has sentenced a 20-year-old man to 10 years in prison for murdering his married sister for reasons related to family honour last year. The tribunal initially handed Khalil M. the death penalty for stabbing his sister to death in an Amman neighbourhood on October 23, but the sentence was immediately reduced to 10 years after the victim’s family dropped charges against their son. Court papers said the victim, who had been married twice, was divorced from her first husband because she would often leave home without his permission and go to the house of a man she was in love with. In mid-2006, the court added, she left her second husband’s home after four months of marriage and went to stay with the same man.
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