Tiba Ali's father turned himself into police for having murdered her in her sleep because she wanted to marry her boyfriend and live in Turkey.
When visiting her family in Iraq at the end of January, Ali reportedly argued with her father about her life plans—she wanted to stay in Turkey, where she’d been in school, and marry her boyfriend, butthat “local community police had intervened” in fights between the two on at least one occasion. A women’s rights organization released calls claiming to be from Ali from the night before she was killed, which, according to the AP, seem to show her father hitting her enough to make her scream.
” or disciplinary crimes. At least one activist group wants Ali’s death to be the spark for the Iraqi Parliament to pass a bill against domestic violence. “Tiba was killed by her father under tribal justifications that are unacceptable,” Organization for Women’s Freedom in Iraq told AP.Domestic violence and other gender-based crimes have been on the rise in Iraq.
“Iraq has failed to criminalize domestic violence despite an increase in reporting of incidents of domestic violence by national NGOs,” saidShockingly, the Iraqi penal code still treats leniently so called ‘honour crimes’ comprising violent acts such as assault and even murder. There is also no effective system in place for reporting domestic violence nor adequate shelters to protect women and girls.
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