Dilara is 19 years old and has a two year old daughter. This may (but need not) indicate a forced marriage. On January 1, 2012, Yusuf throws his wife out the window on the 3rd or 4th floor. She lands on the asphalt. Neighbors call 911.
read Dilara's storyOn 28 January 2012, Mustafa stabs his partner (or lover) 30 times with a kitchen knife. A witness intervenes. Then Mustafa tries to hurt himself (which is quite unusual for an honour killing). Neighbors call the police.
read Aylin's storyFauzia and Bedil are Yazidi from the Kurdish region of Turkey. Fauzia has her first daughter at the age of 16, which may indicate a forced marriage. The rules of Yazidi marriage are strict and sometimes brutally enforced.
read Fauzia's storyIn 1994 Abdoal comes to Hildesheim. He marries the Syrian woman Neval and has five or six children with her. In 2010 he gets a divorce and starts an affair with Yasmin. She is his niece, also married and has four (or six) children.
read Abdoal's storyThis is an honour killing of a man. The pattern is typical of these cases: because the male victim wanted to help a woman escape from her violent marriage. The perpetrator Erkan is married to Ay se. They have two children.
read Ahmet's storyThis story is mainly presented as gang rape. However, the perpetrators accept the victim's death by leaving the 16-year-old Kurdish woman, badly wounded, bleeding and naked, in the cold - at midnight in February.
read Nesrin's story15-year-old Nancy comes from India to Hamburg and at a wedding party falls in love with the one year younger Kaka, an asylum seeker, also from India. He is registered in Plauen. The teenagers stay in touch.
read Nancy's storyNaveed Hussain lives in a social housing development in Urbach. He is unemployed or works as a pizza delivery boy. He is from Pakistan, has a British passport and has lived in Germany since childhood.
read Alexandra's storyRichard was born in Kenya, has a German passport, lives in Essen and plays soccer. His girlfriend Liesa works at the Telekom. The relationship lasts 14 months until they split up. Richard asks for a last conversation.
read Liesa's storyMüslime is forced by her strict Sunni family to marry a cousin in Turkey and has a child at the age of 19. She lives in Germany. Where Hamza lives is unclear. The marriage is violent. Twice she flees to a women's shelter.
read Müslime's storyThe marriage of Nejla and Hamdi is violent, the police in Schwäbisch Hall know that. She flees once to a women's shelter, he gets a warning from the police. At the beginning of 2012 Nejla divorces her unemployed husband and moves with her two sons to Schwäbisch-Gmünd.
read Nejla's storyThe office administrator Teuta has been with Kujtim for 5 years. Both are Albanians with Serbian nationality. They have an ordinary toddler son. The relationship is violent, he hits her - even in front of her son. Teuta is getting a divorce.
read Teuta's storyOrhan comes to Berlin from Anatolia and has a woman from his native country transferred there. Semanur also comes to Germany (probably at the age of 16). Moments later Orhan starts a relationship with her friend Leyla.
read Semanur's storyRegayib is a cook and leaves his apartment in Munich to move to Augsburg and live with his 16 year younger girlfriend. The two of them have a baby together. Diana is Italian, born and raised in Augsburg. Her family is supported by the social service. But the caretaker says she was optimistic.
On 9 July 2012 students will find a corpse in Wimpasing on Lake Starnberger. It is a 35-year-old Romanian woman who works as a kitchen assistant in Zillertal (Tyrol/Austria). The suspicion falls on her 47-year-old partner, a Turk with an Austrian passport.
read Rahela's storyFreshta works in her father's grocery store. She has been living together with the Iranian Babak S for over 2 years. They have a 6 month old son and a joint custody. On 11 July 2012 Babak reports his partner as missing. He hangs up posters.
read Freshta's storyThe constellation of this honour killing is very unusual. Yet the honor motive plays a decisive role. Sehrivan is Yezidin. Her best friend Angelique is German and lives with Sehrivan's brother. The two are expecting a child.
read Angelique's storyOn July 12, 2012, Maria sits in the morning with a friend in a cafe (or snack bar) on Bahnhofstraße in Lauffen. Later the newspaper will say that she has six children, which is unlikely, but possible given her age (28 years).
read Maria's storySergio and Sandra have two children and are divorcing in 2010, probably because he has a mistress. Sergio is a waiter, Sandra works in a bakery. After the divorce Sandra comes together with Bernd, who works at the utility company.
read Bernd's storyFallah is violent. His profession is indicated as a baker, or he works in a snack bar at the station. Other sources use the word occasional worker. Fallah came to Germany as a war refugee and has a German and an Iraqi passport.
read Saskia's storyMaría and Calogero come from Sicily, have been married for almost 20 years and have two children. In 2012 Maria will divorce and start a new relationship. Calogero will not accept this. After a home leave in Sicily, Calogero drives to his ex-wife's apartment in Cologne-Buchforst.
read Maria's storyHabibullah is an import groom from Afghanistan. In the autumn of 2011 he marries his cousin Nila, who lives in Germany, in Kabul. In the spring of 2012 he comes to Paderborn. There he goes to school.
read Nila's storyProbably Derya will be married off by her parents first. At the age of 24, the office clerk divorces him and moves back to her parents' apartment in Cologne-Kalk. A friend of the family, the railroad worker Mustafa, who is more than 15 years older, starts an affair with her.
read Derya's storyOn 30 October 2012, a passer-by in Berlin-Schöneberg calls the police. The officers find a bound and mutilated Iranian woman in her apartment. Her breasts are cut off, her genitals wounded. In the next room is her daughter, who is also tied up.
read Banafshe's storyTuma grew up in Germany and married at the age of 20 to a Turk from Turkey. He comes to Germany, the two of them have three children. A controversial point is the move of the family to Turkey.
read Tuma's storyEmine and Hasan got engaged in 1988 and married 1 year later in Turkey. A few years later he takes a second wife and runs a snack bar in the old centre of Lüneburg. His wife divorced him in 2009, but lives next door with the 3 children.
read Emine's storyZeynep has her first child at the age of 18, three years later her second. In November 2012 Zeynep is pregnant again. Her husband strangles her. Then he goes to family with one of his sons. His brother finds the body and informs the police.
read Zeynep's storyResat wants to impose a forced marriage between his family and his wife. But it fails, and so he forces his wife to break off contact with her family. However, it is said that the woman has become more and more self-assured.
read Gönül's storyOsmann is a tyrannical family man. He doesn't work, abuses his wife Elif, locks her up and forbids her to call. His 6 children are mainly used to obtain social benefits through fraud. The children are also beaten. The police are often called.
read Elif's storyNasser (also: Narza) comes from Iran, runs the kiosk "Em Veedel" in Cologne and is married. The couple lives in Kerpen and has a son. They divorced in 2010 and it became official at the end of 2012. There is a dispute about guardianship.
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Source: 03-04-2025 stopfemicideiran.org: StopFemicideIran (SFI) publishes report on femicides in Iran in 2024
What is an honour killing? An honour killing is a murder in the name of…
What is an honour killing? An honour killing is a murder in the name of…
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