A spokesman for the Ministry of Interior, Major General Saad Maan, said in a tweet on Twitter that Taiba al-Ali (22 years old) was killed by her father on the night of January 31 in Diwaniyah Governorate, southern Iraq.
Social media transmitted clips of a dialogue between the victim and her father, who was saying that he was not satisfied with her staying in Turkey.
Major General Maan confirmed in a tweet that the community police, which is the department in the Ministry of Interior concerned with files of domestic violence, child marriage, or digital extortion, had intervened “to reach appropriate solutions that satisfy everyone to resolve the family dispute once and for all.”
He added that after an introductory meeting, “we were surprised the next day when we were supposed to meet them again, with the news of her murder at the hands of her father, as stated in his initial confessions, and after he did this act, he turned himself in to the police station.”
A security source in Diwaniyah governorate told AFP, preferring not to reveal his name, that the “family disputes” date back to 2015, pointing out that the family had traveled in 2017 to Turkey, after which the young woman refused to return to Iraq with the family, and lived there since.
The victim posted on her YouTube account videos of her daily life in Turkey.
The crime sparked outrage in Iraq, prompting activists to call for a demonstration on Sunday morning in front of a court in Baghdad to demand justice.
Iraqi activists and lawyers are making efforts in a patriarchal society to defend women’s rights, accusing the authorities of ignoring the reduction of domestic violence, early marriage and what they call “honor killings”.
“The law against domestic violence has become necessary and urgent because people’s lives are being lost,” activist Hanaa Adwar told AFP.
Former MP Alaa Talabani said in a tweet Thursday, “Women in our societies are hostage to some backward customs, and in the absence of a legal deterrent and governmental measures that are not commensurate with the scale of domestic violence crimes, Taiba al-Ali and others remain killed in cold blood and sometimes silently under the name of washing away shame. Yes to legislating a law against domestic violence.” “.
On Friday, Amnesty International condemned the “horrific” killing.
“As long as the Iraqi authorities do not adopt legislation to protect women and girls from gender-based violence, we will inevitably continue to witness horrific murders, such as those that Tayba al-Ali was subjected to at the hands of her father,” a statement said.
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