[Foundation-l] [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2008 will happen in Alexandria, Egypt

Wed Oct 10 00:10:41 UTC 2007

Better to give the whole quotation:

The Special Rapporteur indicated that there had been contradictory decisions
with regard to the honor defense in
Brazil<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil>,
and that legislative provisions allowing for partial or complete defense in
that context could be found in the penal codes of
Argentina<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina>,
Ecuador <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador>,
Egypt<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt>,
Guatemala <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemala>,
Iran<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran>,
Israel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel>,
Jordan<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan>,
Peru <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru>,
Syria<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria>,
Venezuela <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venezuela> and the Palestinian
National Authority<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_National_Authority>
.[25] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing#_note-22>

On 10/10/2007, David Strauss <david at fourkitchens.com> wrote:
>
> geni wrote:
> > On 10/10/2007, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On 10/9/07, phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On 10/9/07, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> In 1997 some 52 honor killings were reported in Egypt. The actual
> >>> Yes, well, there were also 69 murders and 156 rapes in the city of San
> >>> Francisco alone last year [1],
> >> And how many of those murders were honor killings?
> >> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing)
> >>
> >
> > I doubt you will find figures for that but in the UK we appear to get
> > about a dozen a year:
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3829139.stm
>
> But in the U.K., they're indisputably illegal.
>
> That's somewhat debatable in Egypt:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor_killing#Honor_killing_in_national_legal_codes
>
> "The Special Rapporteur indicated that there had been contradictory
> decisions with regard to the honor defense in [...] Egypt [...]."
>
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