Staff / TruthdigMay 22, 2007
Grainy cell phone footage of the brutal honor killing of 17-year-old Iraqi girl Duaa Khalil Aswad is making its way around the Internet (although the full clip has been taken down from YouTube), and human rights groups such as the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq are speaking out about it on mainstream outlets like CNN Warning: contains graphic footage
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Staff / TruthdigMay 21, 2007
Although it was sadly not an isolated incident, the bloody death by stoning of a 17-year-old girl has sparked controversy about sectarian strife and gender relations in Iraq, which some believe have taken a sharp turn for the worse since the beginning of the war in 2003. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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