Latest victim of honor killing & take note the degree of her so called " dishonorable action "



LONDON: In a widely followed case of honour killing in Britain, a Pakistan-origin couple was jailed for life on Friday after being held guilty of murdering their teenaged daughter who allegedly brought shame to the family due to her westernized lifestyle.

Her parents, Iftikhar Ahmed, 52, and Farzana Ahmed, 49, had denied her murder but the jury at Chester Crown Court on Friday returned guilty verdicts against them both after a three-month trial.

A taxi driver, Ahmed had earlier claimed that Shafilea ran away from home in the middle of the night and that he never saw her again.

The two had suffocated Shafilea with a plastic bag in an apparent "honour killing" because she had allegedly brought shame on the family. Shafilea's sister Alesha, had told the jury that her parents had pushed her on to the settee in their house and she heard her mother say "just finish it here".

The parents had often clashed Shafilea over her westernized lifestyle, and had objected to her wearing the same clothes as her white friends, rather than traditional Pakistani dress.

In 2003, she was allegedly forced to travel to Pakistan, where she was expected to marry a man more than 10 years her senior. In desperation Shafelia swallowed bleach badly burning her throat and causing the man to call off the marriage, declaring she was "damaged goods". She returned to Britain but went missing from the family home in September 2003.

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Sissy, Im confused! You are saying you believe that honor killing is right?

Thanks Barry .. I was a little confused about the correct usage of " condone VS condemn " . Thank you so much for the correction :)

No , I disagree but I can say with full honesty that I witnessed such action ( I was very young ) . A neighbor's daughter was being beaten upto death by male relatives because she was pregnant outside marriage :( .still exist in remote villages upto now :(

@Rainbowbutterfly: Omg Sissy! You had me scared for a few minutes! Im so happy that you only got the words confused! Lol,
its hard to believe such things like this topic still exist in the world today! The laws should do more to protect young women from these things!

@Hawkeye58: blame that to my 5th language !

My father had that kind of mentality when I was young . I experienced severe punishments and thank God I'm still alive and that's because the bravery of my mother !

I can Not blame my father of why he embraced such ignorance before because he was deprived of education too . But now, he's a change man :) & I'm proud that he open his eyes to reality :)..

There are now laws in my home country protecting women and children but sometimes tribal laws are more evident than that of government laws