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Lebanese man arrested for 'honour killing'

A Lebanese man has been arrested in northern Lebanon for killing his sister earlier this week in what authorities described as an honour killing, a security official said on Friday... Lebanese law stipulates extenuating circumstances for so-called honour killings, in which male relatives kill female kin they suspect of illicit behaviour with men.

Man faces life for burying daughter alive

Prosecutors in Turkey are seeking life in jail for the father and grandfather of a girl who was buried alive for befriending boys, local judicial sources said Monday... the body of 16-year-old Medine Memi was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a hole in a chicken pen outside her house... A post mortem showed a significant amount of soil in her lungs and stomach, meaning she was buried alive, forensic experts have said.

Jordanian gets 10-yrs in 'honour killing'

A Jordanian on death row for the murder of his married sister who used her mobile too often in an apparent "honour killing" has had his term commuted to 10 years in jail, a judicial official said Monday.

Jordanian gets 15 yrs for 'honour killing'

A 21-year-old Jordanian man was sentenced on Monday to 15 years in prison with hard labour for killing his married sister last year over an alleged affair, a court official said... He was charged in May 2008 with premeditated murder after fatally stabbing his 18-year-old sister 26 times in different parts of her body because she allegedly "lived and slept with another man"... Under Article 340 of the penal code, a defendant who "surprises his wife or any close female relative" in an act of adultery or fornication may invoke a defence of "crime of honour" should they murder the woman.