No Safe Place

Murdered by Our Father

No Safe Place
Bekhal Mahmod, Dr Hannana Siddiqui
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h198 x 129mm - 304pg
7 Jul 2022 UK
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9781913543051
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' My life will always be in danger. My beautiful sister Banaz Mahmod was murdered in an ' honour killing' ordered by our father and uncle. If those evil men find me, they will kill me too. ' Bekhal Mahmod was one of six siblings from a Sunni Muslim family in Iraqi Kurdistan who sought a new life as asylum seekers and arrived in London in 1998. When Bekhal' s father tried to force her into an arranged marriage at 15, she ran away. This caused her father to ' lose respect' within the Kurdish community and Bekhal became the target of an honour killing and her younger sisters Banaz and Payzee were quickly married off to restore the family' s reputation. When Banaz left her husband, claiming he' d beaten and raped her, Mahmod decided this ' shame' to the family meant Banaz must die. Within weeks, she had vanished. Her body was finally discovered, crammed into a suitcase and buried in a garden in Birmingham. Banaz, age 20, had been raped and killed in a sickening plot orchestrated by her father and uncle. Still fearing for her own life, Bekhal bravely faced her father and uncle in court - making her the first female in British legal history to give evidence against family members in an honour killing trial - and won justice for her beloved sister Banaz. Bekhal now has a new identity after entering the police witness protection programme. She lives in terror of her father' s release from jail. This is her story.
' Banaz' s courageous and campaigning sister, Bekhal, and the distinguished legal reformer Dr Hannana Siddiqui here document the full horror of the violence which can be experienced by women in our minority communities . . . no cultural justification should be made for so-called crimes of honour. ' * Baroness Helena Kennedy QC * ' This remarkable book by Bekhal and co-writer Hannana Siddique, reveals their awesome courage and compels us to ask: How can this be happening in Britain? Why does it go on? When will it end? Can we feminists be as brave and uncompromising. . . and build up momentum to stop culturally sanctioned crimes against females? It is time. ' * Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, author and journalist * ' Bekhal Mahmod' s story of how she escaped being murdered by her own family is a shocking indictment of a community that prized patriarchy over life. The fact that Bekhal' s sister had to die before the authorities took Bekhal' s pleas for help seriously shames a nation. This is a brave and troubling anatomy of a twenty-first-century ' honour killing' and the long fight for justice. ' * Robert Verkaik, author of Jihadi John *
Bekhal Mahmod is admired for giving prosecution evidence against her father, uncle and male cousins for the honour killing of her sister, Banaz Mahmod. Her relatives were all convicted of murder or related crimes. She is the first female sibling in the UK to do so. Bekhal also faced threats and attempts to kill her after she left home as a teenager due to abuse and pressures to have a child marriage. She is now on a witness protection scheme, but still in fear of her life. Bekhal has given numerous media interviews, including in an Emmy award-winning documentary, Banaz, A Love Story. She was also depicted in the popular ITV drama Honour, which starred Keeley Hawes. Bekhal is campaigning to introduce a Banaz' s Law to prevent cultural excuses for murder or honour violence. In 2011, Bekhal was nominated for the True HonourAward for her courage in court and campaigning. Dr Hannana Siddiqui is an award-winning author, expert and activist on violence against black and ethnic minority women and girls. She has been a leading member of the renowned black feminist organisation Southall Black Sisters, for thirty-six years. Hannana has supported over 10,000 women and girls facing domestic and sexual abuse, forced marriage, honour violence, immigration, poverty and destitution, and suicide and self-harm problems. She has successfully campaigned to make major legal and policy reform as well as change conservative cultural and religious attitudes and practices which discriminate against women and girls within minority communities. Hannana has supported Bekhal Mahmod since 2006 to achieve justice for her sister, Banaz, and to end honour violence. She formulated Banaz' s Law and is currently campaigning with Bekhal to introduce this new law to re-frame cultural defences to honour crimes as aggravating offences and acts of dishonour.
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ISBN-13: 9781913543051
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Ad Lib Publishers Ltd
Publisher: Ad Lib Publishers Ltd
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 304

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