The killing of a 22-year-old Iraqi YouTuber by her father in a “family feud” sparked outrage across the countrywhere femicides committed by relatives are frequent.
Tiba al-Ali was killed by her father on the night of January 31 in Diwaniyah province.Saad Maan, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said on Twitter on Friday.
According to the official, the police had attempted mediation between the young woman and her entourage to “definitively resolve a family dispute.”
In recordings of their conversations shared on social media, her father is heard to have resented Tiba al Ali living alone in Turkey. Then the young woman pointed out to her brother that she had sexually harassed her.
The spokesman explained that a police unit had intervened. After a first meeting “we had to go back, then we were surprised by the news of his murder by his father, who made the first confession when he turned himself in to the Police.”
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هذه التسجيلات هي آخر ما تمكّنت الشابة طيبة علي تسريبه إلى صديقاتها ، أن يقتلها والدها خنقاً ، أمس ، بسبب كشفها اغتصاب شقيقها لها ، عام عام 2017.
1/2#حق_طيبة_العلي #حق_طيبة pic.twitter.com/OS2cH6sCdx— Megaphone (@megaphone_news) February 2, 2023
The family traveled to Turkey in 2017 but upon returning Tiba al-Ali refused. He has since lived far from his country, according to an official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
His assassination occurred while he was visiting Iraq.
On her YouTube account, the young woman shared videos of her life in which her fiancé appeared many times.
The drama sparked outrage and activist groups called for a demonstration outside a Baghdad court on Sunday.
“Women in our societies are held hostage to outdated customs due to the absence of deterrent laws and government measures that fall short of domestic violence,” former Kurdish MP Ala Talabani deplored on Twitter.
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#iraq continues to be a hotbed for injustice, persecution, and human rights violation. Tiba Al-Ali, a young girl who escaped from her home de ella and refugee in Turkey after being sexually assaulted by her brother de ella. She only to be lured by her parents de ella to get killed by her father de ella.#حق_طيبة pic.twitter.com/lCvdSdTXVQ
— Abdullah Al-Khafajy (@KhafajyAbdullah) February 1, 2023
The organization Amnesty International (AI) asked Iraq this Friday to take serious measures in its legislation to protect women from gender violenceafter this femicide.
“As long as the Iraqi authorities do not adopt strong legislation to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, we will inevitably continue to witness horrific murders like the one suffered by Tiba Ali, at the hands of her own father,” it said in a statement. AI’s Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Regional Program, Aya Majzoub.
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“Iraq has not criminalized domestic violence despite increasing reports of domestic violence incidents by domestic NGOs. Remarkably, the Iraqi Penal Code continues to treat leniently so-called “honor killings”, which comprise violent acts such as assaults and even murders,” Majzoub said.
A domestic violence bill was introduced and debated in the Iraqi Parliament in 2019 and 2020, but has since stalled.
In 2020, UN agencies in Iraq expressed concern about the increase in the number of cases of domestic violence during the pandemic.
“The murder of Tiba Ali must be investigated, the perpetrator has been brought to justice and the sentence must be commensurate with the gravity of this terrible crime, without recourse to the death penalty,” Majzoub concluded.
AFP and EFE
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