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“It hurts me that there are a lot of people where I am from who will never be able to experience that.”
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“I was given an opportunity to really be able to say something,” Farah said. In response to Ahlam’s murder, Jordanian university students Bana Habash and Farah of “Women’s Rights Revival Jordan,” launched a cyber campaign with the hashtag #stopkillingwomen, which trended on Twitter in Jordan over the weekend. “In Jordan, just during the time of the quarantine, we had seven crimes against women - murder, rape, family abuse, abuse from their husbands.” “I think this is going to keep increasing if we don’t make a big push on the government with the protests we are arranging,” 24-year-old Heba Lotfi of Jordan said. Article 98 reduces a criminal’s penalty, often to as little as six months, if the crime was deemed to have been committed “in a fit of fury.” The law is often used to lessen the punishment of those who commit honor killings. Several petitions regarding honor killings have gone viral, including one with 12,000 signatures demanding changes to articles 98 and 99 of the Jordanian constitution. “We can’t just stand and watch girls get killed,” Fatin said. Jordanian Princess Basma Bint Talal wrote on her Facebook page, “How many other women must die before adequate punitive steps are taken … There is no honour in honour killing and we can no longer look away.”Īhlam’s father was tried and charged with murder last Saturday by the Grand Criminal Court in Amman after the chilling video of Ahlam’s screams went viral and thousands began demanding justice online.įatin Otoom and 32-year-old Hashem Alaamr renamed their recently started local Jordanian feminist group “Ahlam’s Screams” after Ahlam’s murder. Annually, Jordan reports between 15 to 20 “honor killings,” according to the Human Rights Watch. In 2020, there have been nine crimes of murder against women in Jordan. “The mother did nothing … she made her husband a cup of tea and he drank it with his daughter’s blood still on his hands.”ĭue to the coronavirus lockdown, many nations have seen upticks in domestic abuse, including Jordan. “This is not the first time, and it sadly won’t be the last,” said 31-year-old activist Fatin Otoom.
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The woman, Ahlam, divorced and in her late 30s, had recently been returned to her family after being placed in a women’s detention facility for complaining about being a victim of domestic abuse, advocates said. (NEW YORK) - A video of a woman screaming for help while being beaten to death with a brick by her father and brothers in a so-called “honor killing” in Jordan last Friday has sparked outrage across social media and among Jordanian activists. Indeed, the only real questions left unanswered before the bloated two-hour finale began were: What sexagenarian-and-up singers would call in favors to perform in front of a television audience of tens of millions of teenage girls? (Answer: Tony Bennett, Bette Midler, Gladys Knight, Smokey Robinson, a hologram of Fat Elvis, and the ghost of James Brown.Blueclue/iStock By ABIGAIL ROBERTS, ABC News Unless you've been napping in a sensory deprivation tank buried a mile beneath the earth's surface for the last ten or so hours, by now you know that Jordin Sparks (just 17, as we were reminded every 30 seconds of this past season) is this year's American Idol, a conclusion so foregone that runner-up Blake Lewis put in an application to run the mechanical bull at Saddle Ranch mere minutes after the finalists were announced last week.