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Pakistan court denies bail in alleged 'honor killing'
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In this July 18, 2016 file photo, activists of the Awami Workers Party chants slogans during a demonstration to condemn the killing of model Qandeel Baloch and against "honor killings," in Islamabad, Pakistan. A Pakistani government-ordered police inquiry has recommended that the ex-husband and father of a British woman killed in Pakistan be tried on rape and murder charges. The report, shared exclusively with The Associated Press, describes the killing of Samia Shahid as “premeditated, cold-blooded murder.” It says that Shahid’s father, Muhammad Shahid, stood guard while her ex-husband, Muhammad Shakeel, raped her. After that, they killed her together. (Associated Press/Anjum Naveed)
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Pakistani court has denied bail to a man accused of slaying a British-Pakistani woman in the country's latest so-called "honor killing."
Samia Shahid's father, Muhammad Shahid, and ex-husband, Muhammad Shakeel, are accused of killing her in July because she had divorced Shakeel and married a Shiite Muslim.
A police investigation concluded that her father stood guard while Shakeel raped her, before the two men strangled her to death.
Najful Hussain Shah, the lawyer for the deceased woman's husband, says the court rejected bail for Shahid on Saturday. It has not yet ruled on Shakeel's request for bail.
Hundreds of women are murdered every year in Pakistan, often by their own relatives, for going against their families' wishes in matters of love and marriage.(ags)
