Female PA minister proposes treating perpetrators of honor killings "like any other murder"
“[PA] Minister of Women's Affairs Rabiha Dhiab said… yesterday [Sept. 22, 2013] that she would submit the draft of the proposed Palestinian Penal Law to the government for discussion, ahead of its ratification [by the government] and its submission to the President for approval. [Her statement came] as part of her response to the third case of femicide this month and the fifteenth since the beginning of the year…
She emphasized that the draft did not contain sections [granting] mitigating circumstances in cases of femicide, and that it considers femicide a crime like any other murder, on which the harshest punishment is imposed, so that the murderer is not released after two months.”
She emphasized that the draft did not contain sections [granting] mitigating circumstances in cases of femicide, and that it considers femicide a crime like any other murder, on which the harshest punishment is imposed, so that the murderer is not released after two months.”