Posts Tagged ‘Honor-Killing’

Turkish backing for honour crimes

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If you want to be notified the next time I write something, sign up for FREE email alerts or subscribe to the RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A survey by a university in Turkey has shown almost 40% support for the practice of “honour killing”. The results come days after a court in Istanbul gave a [...]

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Honor Killing Pass

This item was filled under [ Bleeding Edge, Failures, Human Rights, Islam, Jordan, Religion, Sabbah ]

A Jordanian man who murdered his sister for being a prostitute got a reduced jail sentence because he killed her in a “fit of rage”, the Jordan Times reported on Wednesday. The Criminal Court has sentenced a 26-year-old shepherd to six months in prison for the murder of his older sister in April 2005.
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