Police: Details of honor killing 'shocking'

HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Police identified the remains of a 20-year-old woman at the bottom of a well near Hebron on Friday, an estimated 13 months after her disappearance.

Her uncle and three other relatives were detained and questioned. Police told Ma'an on Sunday that the death was an honor killing, to which her uncle confessed, and revealed the grim details about the woman's murder.

Local prosecutor Ashraf Mash'al identified the woman as Ayah Ibrahim Barad'iyya from the southern West Bank town of Surif. Her body was found in a deserted well by Israel's separation wall in fields near her home. It took two days to retrieve her remains from the well.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=385727

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It was difficult to read the article and admit I couldn't read every word. Has the uncle been arrested? Will there be a trial or will, once again, a woman's death be considered no big deal?

that the uncle was indeed being given a medal by the PA morals police however did that get past you? One can only wonder why, how can our gentle readers here ever be fully informed as to what savages these people truly are"

or one can be honest the details of the murder are known because the uncle indeed was arrested perhaps you missed this part of the article due to being blinded by your tears

Her uncle and three other relatives were detained and questioned. Police told Ma'an on Sunday that the death was an honor killing, to which her uncle confessed, and revealed the grim details about the woman's murder.

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The facts of the case were "shocking," director of Hebron police Ramadan Awad told Ma'an. "As we interrogated her uncle, the people in the room could hardly hold back tears."

but then again as someone here will almost certainly point out the article does not say specifically the uncle was arrested so with those "barbarians" who knows right?

I had already read what you bolded. It doesn't answer my question at all, does it? Detained and questioned is not the same as arrested and punished. Now, would you like to take another swing at my very simple question?

but then again I did predict your response didn't I?

Of course he's going to get away with it. From the link in the OP:


Palestinian courts commute sentences for men who kill or attack female relatives accused or suspected of "dishonoring" their families.

On International Women's Day in March 2009, President Mahmoud Abbas signed the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

However, more than two years later, the president has still not amended domestic laws addressing women's rights, and the Jordanian penal code of 1960 remains in place.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights says the recurrence of murders of women may be due to the "relative impunity" men are granted when murdering in the name of "honor."


Now, what were you saying?

I was defending nothing I was pointing out the falsity of of your post, but you win dear however I always love it when "liberals" use "concern" for women or gays to demonize an entire people

do carry on

of course now you will claim the word barbarians was only meant to apply to the perpetrators or Palestinian men which will it be "inquiring minds" want to know

eta that being said Abbas needs to keep true to his word and amend the Palestinian legal code

If you're trying to pass that off as a skill, you're woefully bad at it. At no point did I declare anyone other than the perpertrators as barbarians. I asked a question that you didn't want to answer and I don't blame you since the answer is ONCE AGAIN, THE ANIMALS ARE GETTING AWAY WITH KILLING A WOMAN OVER HONOR. Let me know when Abbas changes the law - then you'll have a point. Until then you are defending the indefensible and blaming me for it. Laughable and pathetic.

When the barbarians kill or discriminate against Women and Gays?

How progressive (and disgusting )

:grr:

We should fucking shout it from every rooftop.



There is no fucking excusing it . EVER !!!!


(azurnoir your post made me so mad I alerted)

also quote the exact line where I defend honor killing as you claim,

eta I did however take the precaution of copying my post which was made on Wednesday May 11

There are civil ways of expressing outrage over honor killing my post expressed outrage over what I felt to be overboard and possibly a blanket comment? nothing that could remotely defend honor killing

President Mahmoud Abbas has directed the judiciary to award the "utmost punishment" to perpetrators of honor killings, his secretary-general said Friday.

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Director of Ma'an Network's TV department and women's rights activist Nahid Abu T'eima participated in the talk show. She had been campaigning for an amendment to the law, and burst into tears on air when she heard the announcement.

"This is a historical accomplishment to amend the 1960 penal law which belongs to the dark ages. Ma'an News Agency's coverage has helped amend that law which human right groups have been trying to change for 15 years," said Abu T'eima.

A live transmission from Surif village, where Ayah Barad'iyya was drowned by her uncle in April 2010, showed thousands of residents applauding the decision. Many also burst into tears.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=387466

He can just "order a legal amendment" and it becomes law?

Do they not have checks and balances?

your concerns are noted however if you read your own OP this has been in the works for 2 years and as of yet no one has complained

I was asking about how the legal system works there.

Can Abbas simply decree a law or is there some sort of formal process? Does the legislature vote on it? How does it work?

It is not clear.

finally being given protection from the brutal practice of 'honor' killing

but your 'concern' for democracy truly warms the 'cockles' it does

No idea what you are talking about and why concern and cockles are in quotation marks.

Can the President of the PA decree something and it becomes law?

That is the question I am asking.

Simple question, if you don't know the answer, that's fine. Maybe someone else does.

in some cases such as this one where-in Abbas promised the UN that changes would be made to the honor killing law then yes it can be done by decree

I have no idea what they have to do with anything that I've asked.

Thanks, though, for sharing the info about decrees.