Mohammed Taroos Khan disposed of his niece ‘like rubbish’ An uncle has been found guilty of murdering his niece with a metal spike in an “honour killing” after she refused to take part in a forced marriage and then dumping her body “like rubbish” on wasteland. Biomedical student Somaiya Begum, 20, was found dead just […]

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‘Women in our societies are hostage to backward customs due to the absence of legal deterrents’ A young YouTube star was reportedly strangled to death by her own dad who told police he killed her to “wash away the shame”. The death of 22-year-old Taiba Alali in a so-called ‘honour killing’ has sparked outrage in […]

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The girls were shot dead on New Year’s Day, 2008 A man who allegedly killed his teenage daughters for becoming “too American” has gone on trial this week for the crimes he is accused of committing nearly a decade and a half ago. The case against Yaser Abdel Said, a taxi driver born in Egypt, […]

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