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Jail for Jordan ‘honour killing’ »

From BBC News
A Jordanian man has been jailed for seven-and-a-half years for killing his married sister in what he said was an act to save the family’s honour.
The man strangled the 16-year-old after she refused to explain absences from her marital home, the court heard. It emerged she had seen a female friend.
The sentence had [...]