Amnesty on Women Abuse in the Middle East………………
“States such as Iraq, Jordan and Syria retained laws which allow men who commit violence against women to escape punishment if their crimes are deemed to be committed “in a fit of rage” and to uphold family “honour” or to receive only minimal punishment; in Syria, it represented an advance when the President decreed in July that men who killed or injured women relatives on such grounds should receive a penalty of at least two years in prison. So-called honour killings of women were reported in Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Syria. In Iraq, women were attacked and threatened for not adhering to strict moral codes and women detainees told a parliamentary committee that they had been raped in detention. In Iran, the authorities continued to target women human rights defenders and activists leading the popular campaign for an end to discrimination against women in law……….” Amnesty International
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