[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt

[David Strauss]

geni wrote:
> On 10/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 10/9/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 10/9/07, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at 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_codes

"The Special Rapporteur indicated that there had been contradictory
decisions with regard to the honor defense in [...] Egypt [...]."

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