In the recording, she confronts her mother and father about not returning to Iraq after her brother sexually assaulted her. Iraqi NGO Support Her Organization for Women’s Rights shared voice recordings that Ali reportedly sent to friends the night before she was killed. Maan said that Ali and her father had a heated dispute during a visit to Iraq, and that the day before her murder, the local community police had intervened to help them reach a settlement. Her father reportedly did not agree with the move, nor her plans to marry her partner. In her first YouTube video in November 2021, Ali said she moved to Turkey to further her education, but chose to stay because she enjoyed life there. Tiba Ali had been living in Istanbul, Turkey, and had a YouTube channel with over 20,000 subscribers documenting life in the Turkish city alongside her Syrian-born boyfriend, a real estate investor.

Meanwhile, Article 409 reduces murder sentences for men who kill or permanently impair their wives or female relatives because of adultery to up to three years in prison.

“Anyone who wants to get rid of a woman accuses her of disgracing her dignity and kills her,” protester Israa al-Salman told The Associated Press, who also wanted Ali’s father executed.Īrticle 41 of the country’s penal code allows husbands to “discipline” their wives, which includes beatings. “There is no honor in the crime of killing women,” one placard read. The protesters held banners condemning the killing and demanding legislative reforms. The so-called “honor killing” was met with condemnation from women’s rights groups and residents, who sounded the alarm on violence against women in Iraq and the need to reform legislation to impose harsher punishments on perpetrators. Reports say the father strangled Ali at night while she was asleep. 31 in the central city of Diwaniyah by her father, who then turned himself in to the police. Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan on Friday announced that Tiba Ali was killed Jan.

DIWANIYAH, Iraq (AP) - Dozens of Iraqi protesters gathered Sunday to decry the so-called “honor killing” of a 22-year-old YouTube star who was allegedly strangled by her father, adding fuel to calls for legal reforms protecting women.

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