Tuesday, May 12, 2009

May 12, 2009 War on Women News - RealCourage.org

(Jordan) Two brothers charged with premeditated murder of their married sister
-- "claiming to have killed their sister to cleanse their family's honour"
-- "Criminal Prosecutor Ahmad Omari on Sunday charged two brothers with the premeditated
murder of their married sister in the latest so-called honour crime, official sources said"
-- "The 30-year-old woman, a mother of six, was reportedly stabbed to death with a switchblade,
allegedly by her brothers aged, 44 and 19, at her father's home on Saturday"
-- "The victim became the 10th person reportedly murdered for reasons of honour in the Kingdom this year and the second this month"
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=16580


(Canada) Accused in 'honour killing' told friend, 'I had to do what I had to do,' trial told
-- "Friend described killing sister, fiance, witness testifies"
-- Sister Khatera Sadiqi killed by Hasibullah Sadiqi
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Accused+honour+killing+told+friend+what+trial+told/1585333/story.html


(Canada) Ottawa Citizen: "Family 'honour' will never be a legitimate reason to kill someone, in Canada, or anywhere else."
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Dishonour+Islam/1586701/story.html


(Afghanistan) New 'poisoning' hits 98 Afghan schoolgirls
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/06-new-poisoning-hits-98-afghan-schoolgirls-02-rs
--- Taliban using poison gas on Afghan schoolgirls?
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/South-Asia/Taliban-using-poison-gas-on-Afghan-schoolgirls/articleshow/4511890.cms
-- 84 Afghan girls hospitalized in apparent poisoning
--- "At least 84 Afghan schoolgirls were admitted to a hospital Tuesday for headaches and
vomiting in the third apparent poison attack on a girls school in as many weeks, officials and doctors said"
--- AP describes suspects not as Islamic supremacists, but as "conservative extremist groups"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090512/ap_on_re_as/as_afghan_students_sickened



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