Family stages woman's death as accident, cops find it to be honour killing

Egypt’s Scourge Of "Honor Killings" Relies On Leniency — From Both Courts And Families

Updated April 2, 2024 at 6:10 p.m.*CAIRO — The woman was trying to convince the judge to spare her son who killed his sister.“They'd been arguing when he hit her,” the woman said of her two children. “I renounce my daughter’s rights because he didn’t intend to kill her.” ✉️ To receive our weekly Women Worldwide newsletter, Click here. In video footage of the court proceedings, the judge appears agitated, and finally explodes: “Is he allowed to …

22-year-old Lima Khan was strangled to death by her brother on behalf of the father. After that, the body was burned and left at an attic shelter. Now the father, Azizu Rahman Azizi, is sentenced for honor killings to life in prison, and the brother to 16 years in prison. However, the mother, who has also been charged on suspicion of the crime, is acquitted by the district court.

Family stages woman's death as accident, cops find it to be honour killing

Vidya, a 22-year-old native of Paruvai region, Tamil Nadu and a postgraduate student at a government college in Coimbatore was the target of an honor killing, as revealed in her autopsy after her brother and parents staged her death.