geni wrote:
On 10/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/9/07, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/9/07, Dan Rosenthal swatjester@gmail.com wrote:
In 1997 some 52 honor killings were reported in Egypt. The actual
Yes, well, there were also 69 murders and 156 rapes in the city of San Francisco alone last year [1],
And how many of those murders were honor killings? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing)
I doubt you will find figures for that but in the UK we appear to get about a dozen a year:
But in the U.K., they're indisputably illegal.
That's somewhat debatable in Egypt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing#Honor_killing_in_national_legal_c...
"The Special Rapporteur indicated that there had been contradictory decisions with regard to the honor defense in [...] Egypt [...]."