Better to give the whole quotation:
The Special Rapporteur indicated that there had been contradictory decisions
with regard to the honor defense in
Brazil<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil>il>,
and that legislative provisions allowing for partial or complete defense in
that context could be found in the penal codes of
Argentina<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina>na>,
Ecuador <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador>,
Egypt<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt>pt>,
Guatemala <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala>,
Iran<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran>an>,
Israel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel>,
Jordan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan>an>,
Peru <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru>,
Syria<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria>ia>,
Venezuela <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela> and the Palestinian
National
Authority<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority>
.[25] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing#_note-22>
On 10/10/2007, David Strauss <david(a)fourkitchens.com> wrote:
geni wrote:
On 10/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell
<gmaxwell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/9/07, phoebe ayers
<phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/9/07, Dan Rosenthal
<swatjester(a)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:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3829139.stm
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_…
"The Special Rapporteur indicated that there had been contradictory
decisions with regard to the honor defense in [...] Egypt [...]."
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