Honour Killing

Iraq honour killing: Protests over the murder of 22-year-old female YouTuber by father

Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan on Friday announced that Tiba Ali was killed on 31 January in the central city of Diwaniyah by her father, who then turned himself in to the police. Reports say the father strangled Ali at night while she was asleep

India’s Shame: Yamuna Expressway murder is a grim reminder of ‘honour’ killings in the country

The Mathura Police has arrested a man and wife for killing their 21-year-old daughter, packing her body into a suitcase and dumping it on the Yamuna Expressway. The case, being called an honour killing, adds to the long list of such crimes that continue to shame India

UP: Man kills sister, lover; dumps their bodies in drain

Neetu went to the city police station in the early hours of Sunday and confessed to having killed his sister Shivani and her lover Ramkaran

Basti honour killing case: National Commission for Women seeks fair and time bound investigation

According to police, 19-year-old Dalit boy Ankit Gautam was killed by his Muslim girlfriend's brothers in Uttar Pradesh's Basti district. His body was found in a sugarcane field on Saturday

UP: Hindu boy killed allegedly over affair with Muslim girl; latter killed and buried too

Primary investigation suggests the two were caught by teenage girl's brothers in an objectionable position post which they were killed

Bihar: Ex-MLA held for ordering daughter's 'honour killing'

Surendra Sharma was apprehended on Sunday after the hitmen, whom he had paid Rs 20 lakh for the "honour killing", spilled the beans

Asaduddin Owaisi condemns Saroornagar honour killing, terms it as a ‘criminal act’

Owaisi added that since the woman willingly decided to get married, her brother doesn't have any right to kill her husband. He termed it a criminal act as per constitution and the worst crime as per Islam

Pakistan: Man shoots dead 21-year-old sister for dancing and modelling

The girl's family forced her to quit her profession, terming it "against family tradition" but she insisted on continuing

Dalit man's killing in Hyderabad slap in the face of 'tukde tukde' gang: Giriraj Singh

The BJP leader from Bihar claimed that there would have been an outrage in place of the current "silence", had it not been the "son of a Dalit" but his Muslim wife, who got killed

Supreme Court commission seeks report from Hyderabad police in 'honour killing' case

Nagaraju and his wife were in love with each other for long and they got married in January this year against the wishes of the woman's family members