Episode 7: The Murders of Amina & Sara Said

YASER ABDUL SAID HAS NOW BEEN ARRESTED!

So-called Honour violence is defined by the Honour Based Violence Awareness Network as "a phenomenon where a person (most often a woman) is subjected to violence by her collective family or community in order to restore ‘honour’, presumed to have been lost by her behaviour, most often through expressions of sexual autonomy." This type of violence seems to be more common in the Middle East and in countries such as India and Pakistan however it is thought to be very under reported as not only are the victims usually related to their attacker but in a lot of these countries, women still don't have many of the rights that many of us take for granted every day. Some of the things that can be seen as "dishonourable" include their choose of job, style of dress, their sexuality, choice of partner and deviating from what their family, community and culture may expect of them. Honour based violence can come in many forms, including forced marriage and abortion, abduction, physical violence, such as beatings, coercing women into completing suicide and honour killings. I would like to add a trigger warning now as we are going to be discussing two victims, both of whom were victims of sexual abuse and of honour based violence. Let's uncover the murders of Amina and Sara Said. 

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