Samaira Nazir

Samaira Nazir was a 25 year old British Pakistani woman who was murdered by her family members. She was a victim of honor killing.

Samaira Nazir was a graduate of Thames Valley University and recruitment consultant. She fell in love with an Afghan immigrant in the Britain and wished to marry him, defying her family members. She had rejected the suitors her family wanted her to marry. Believing that this had brought disrespect to the family, her brother Azhar Nazir (30) and a 17 year old cousin Imran Mohammed murdered her by stabbing her more than 18 times using four knives, while she was held down by her mother. This savage attack was performed in front of other family members - including two of their nieces, aged two and four.

On July 14, 2006 a British jury sentenced the brother and a cousin of Samaira Nazir to life imprisonment. Her father was also charged but fled to Pakistan. [Times online: [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2229505,00.html Sister is stabbed to death for loving the wrong man] , June 17, 2006] Metropolitan Police Service: [http://cms.met.police.uk/news/arrests_and_charges/honour_killers_sentenced_to_life_imprisonment 'Honour' killers sentenced to life imprisonment] , July 17, 2006]

John Reid, a Detective Inspector from the Metropolitan Police working the case, said: "There is nothing at all honourable about her brutal death."Metropolitan Police Service:

May her soul rest in peace!

[http://cms.met.police.uk/news/arrests_and_charges/honour_killers_sentenced_to_life_imprisonment 'Honour' killers sentenced to life imprisonment] , July 17, 2006]

ee also

* honor killing
* The role of women under Sharia

References

External links

* [http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1029032006 Killed by her brother and cousin ... for falling in love with an asylum seeker] Report on the sentence of the killers
* [http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20060811000405800.htm Crime and Punishment: European Muslims remain silent on horrific crimes within the community citing fear of fuelling Islamophobia as the reason] : Article in Frontline