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February 6, 2008

“UK: Muslim Family Guilty Of ‘Allowing’ Honor Murder”

ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Muslim honor killing is almost always a “family” business. When Samaira Nazir was stabbed to death by her brother and young cousin, her father and mother were in the house. Her two nieces aged two and four were so close to the event, they became spattered with blood. Her father fled to Pakistan to escape justice, but her mother was never prosecuted.

When young Kurdish woman Banaz Mahmod Babakir Agha took a boyfriend, her family conspired to murder her. Her father and uncle were found guilty of her murder, and a “family friend” also pleaded guilty to murder. Another unrelated member of the Kurdish south London community pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice.

Yesterday, a precedent was set in Leeds Crown Court, where women members of a family, who had done nothing to prevent the brutal killing of a woman in their home, were found guilty of allowing the killing to take place. They were the first people to be charged under the Domestic Violence Crime and Victims Act 2004 where the victim had been an adult. The law has previously only been used to successfully prosecute in cases where children have died.

The woman who died in this case was a 19-year old woman called Sabia Rani, who had been brought from Pakistan to partake in an arranged marriage with 25-year old Shazad Khan. On Sunday, May 21 2006, five months after she had come to Britain to experience “married” life, Sabia was found dead. The Home Office pathologist who examined her body said that in 16 years of his career, it was the worst case he had seen. 90 percent of Sabia’s body had been covered in bruises, and 15 of her ribs were broken.”