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Britain's Crimes of Honour


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Surjit Athwal

 

Murdered in 1998 by her in-laws on a trip to the Indian Punjab for daring to seek a divorce from an unhappy marriage

 

Du'a Khalil Aswad

 

Aged 17, she was stoned to death in Nineveh, Iraq, by a mob of 2,000 men for falling in love with a man outside her tribe

 

Rand Abdel-Qader

 

The Iraqi 17-year-old was stabbed to death by her father two years ago after falling in love with a British soldier in Basra

 

Fakhra Khar

 

In 2001 in Karachi, her husband poured acid on her face, after she left him and returned to her mother's home in the red-light district of the city

 

Mukhtaran Bibi

 

The 18-year-old was gang-raped by four men in a hut in the Punjab in 2002, while up to 100 men laughed and cheered outside

 

Heshu Yones

 

The 16-year-old was stabbed to death by her Muslim father Abdullah, in west London in 2002, because he disapproved of her Christian boyfriend

 

Tasleem Solangi

 

The Pakistani village girl, 17, was falsely accused of immorality and had dogs set on her as a punishment before she was shot dead by in-laws

 

Shawbo Ali Rauf

 

Aged 19, she was taken by her family to a picnic in Dokan, Iraq, and shot seven times after they had found an unfamiliar number on her phone

 

Tulay Goren

 

The 15-year-old Kurdish girl was killed in north London by her father because the family objected to her choice of husband

 

Banaz Mahmod Babakir Agha

 

The 20-year-old's father and uncle murdered her in 2007, after she fell in love with a man her family did not want her to marry

 

Ayesha Baloch

 

Accused of having sexual relations with another man before she married, her husband slit her lip and nostril with a knife in Pakistan in 2006

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