April 13, 2009 War on Women News = R.E.A.L.

Jordanian man accused of stabbing pregnant sister
-- "A Jordanian man confessed to stabbing to death his pregnant sister and mutilating
her body to protect the family honor, said Jordanian authorities on Sunday."
-- "The 28-year-old married woman was five months pregnant and stabbed repeatedly in
the face, neck, abdomen and back as well as being hacked up with a meat cleaver"
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1107ap_ml_jordan_honor_killing.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gMnE234xKNq-2NZNwivLiP42dA5QD97GRJ881
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239488116669&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Afghan Taliban execute eloping pair -- official
-- "Taliban militants publicly executed a man and girl on Monday for eloping when she was already engaged to marry someone else, an official said, in a sign of the grip the Islamists have over parts of Afghanistan."
http://in.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idINISL49046920090413?rpc=401&

(Afghanistan) Taliban assassins gun down female provincial council member
-- Sitara Achekzai "a proponent of women's rights, had returned to Kandahar in 2004 after living in exile in Germany during the Taliban era"
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/04/taliban_assassins_gu.php
-- Female official killed in southern Afghanistan
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hvWEqwq3CrRvaQCmt21MfoYhjZJQD97GV12O0

Saudi judge Sheikh Habib Al-Habib upholds man's marriage to 8-year-old
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/12/saudi.child.marriage/index.html
-- "A Saudi judge has refused for a second time to annul a marriage between an 8-year-old girl
and a 47-year-old man, a relative of the girl told CNN"
-- "Girl's father arranged her marriage to a 47-year-old to settle debts, lawyer says"
-- "While rights groups have been petitioning the government to enact laws that would protect children from this type of marriage, the kingdom's top cleric has said that it's OK for girls as young as 10 to wed."
-- Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, the kingdom's grand mufti: "We hear a lot in the media
about the marriage of underage girls... We should know that Sharia law has not brought injustice to women."
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/12/saudi.child.marriage/index.html

(Australia) Court bars father from taking daughter to Somalia for female circumcision
-- father "described himself in court documents as a 'respectable Muslim scholar in the Muslim community'"
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,25330944-2702,00.html?from=public_rss

(Russia) Azerbaijan, a majority Muslim state, immigrant pays to have 21 year-old daughter murderered for wearing skirt
-- "They admitted to being paid 100,000 rubles ($4140) by the girl's father. They said he
wanted to punish his daughter for flouting national traditions and wearing a mini-skirt"
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25331142-23109,00.html

(Gaza) Police: Thursday's killings in Gaza were honor-motivated
-- Mother, son, and husband murdered by son from first wife
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&Do=&ID=37037