Artigo Revisado por pares

The Politics and Culture of "Honour Killing": The Murder of Fadime §ahindal

2003; Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1715-0698

Autores

Shahrzad Mojab, Amir Hassanpour,

Tópico(s)

Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

Resumo

Rahmi Sahindal, a Kurdish man who migrated from Turkey to Sweden in 1980, killed his daughter Fadime in the city of Uppsala on 21 January 2002. Rahmi and his son, Mesud, felt that Fadime had the family by rejecting an arranged marriage, and by feeling free to love a partner of her choice, a Swedish man. She had, according to tradition, violated the codes of honour namus. She had further shamed her father and brother by resisting their death threats, going public about their intentions, taking them to court, and by launching a campaign against honour killing. Rahmi told the police that he had to defend his (family's) honour by killing his daughter.

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