Honor Based Violence Under-Reported

women and the young girls are scared to death (literally) to report these horrible crimes that aew sanctioned in Islam, because the authorities are so Islamophilic. Would you go to law enforcement if you knew they would throw you to the wolves? As bad the situation might be, involving the kafir is a death sentence.
Just ask Banaz Mahood.
The BBC article focuses on ....get this, honor killing in the gypsy culture. Yeah, OK. Next they'll be doing a segment on gender apartheid in the bumble bee community.

Honour-based violence 'massively under-reported' BBC (hat tip Donald)

Honour-based violence can occur in many communities, police say

Police have urged honour-based violence victims to come forward after warning that many crimes go under-reported.
[...] The conference was organised by police and north Wales community safety partnerships.
Det Insp Kelly Isaacs said: "We want people to know it's on our radar."
Police said honour-based violence can cover imprisonment and murder, where victims are punished by their family or community "for undermining the accepted code of behaviour, thereby bringing perceived shame and dishonour on the family".

"It was very violent, very abusive... nobody wanted to listen”

Saima Afzal Campaigner

It also focused on forced marriages, where one or both spouses do not consent, or can not consent because of learning or physical disabilities.
DI Kelly Isaacs, said: "Whilst an awful lot of reported cases come from south east Asian communities, it's by no means confined to those communities.
"One case from any community is a policing priority for us as a force.
"One of our key issues is that these crimes are massively under-reported.
"We hope to give people the confidence to contact us. They need to know they can come and talk to us."

 

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