USA – New York: Tonya Harvey, 33-killed in February 2018
Tonya Harvey was shot and killed on a dead-end street in Buffalo, New York, where she lived. People who knew her commented after her death that she was a talented performer. One friend also...
USA – Oakland County: Nada Huranieh, 35-killed by her son-2017
Muhammad Al-Tantawi 20, was accused of killing his mother, Nada Huranieh. Muhammad was charged for the 2017 slaying of Nada Huranieh, when he was 16 years old. The court files show that prosecutors intended...
USA – Massachusetts: Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien, 42-murdered by her husband,2018
Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien was a well-known LGBTQ advocate in North Adams, Massachusetts. She was allegedly stabbed and beaten to death in her home by her husband, Mark Steele-Knudslien, who later went to the police...
USA – Philadelphia: Shantee Tucker, Transgender Woman, 30-murdered in 2018
Shantee Tucker was shot eight times. She was widely known as someone who got along with everyone. “She could be friends with anyone, from the homeless man on the street to the fashion stylist,”...
Italy: Hina Saleem, 20-killed by her father-August 11, 2006
Hina Saleem was a Pakistani woman living in northern Italy, when she was murdered by her father Mohammed Saleem who claimed he was “saving the family’s honor”. Hina’s father felt that his daughter’s lifestyle...
England – London: Nada Al-Qahtani,killed by her brother-January 2020
Nada Al-Qahtani was killed by her brother to “cleanse her honor”. She was shot while travelling on a bus to university in the Eastern Province of Dammam. Her brother mistakenly shot two other women...
Afghanistan- Wama: Fateha 18, and Hedayatullah, 19-killed in February 2017
Fateha, a young woman who had been forced to marry a man against her wishes, was arrested along with her lover Hedayatullah in the eastern province of Nuristan, Afghanistan after apparently attempting to elope....
Germany – Berlin: Rokstan M., 20-murdered by her father and brothers,October 2015
Rokstan M. a young pregnant woman who fled Syria after being gang raped by Syrian soldiers had found work as an interpreter. Authorities in the small, eastern city of Dessau discovered her body, stabbed...
Indonesia: Rosmini binti Darwis, 16-killed by her brothers,June 2020
Rosmini binti, was ‘hacked to death with a machete by her two brothers after confessing to an affair with a 45-year-old relative’. She was killed on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, in a so-called...
Pakistan: Samia Shahid, 28-allegedly killed by her father-July 20, 2016
Samia Shahid, a British-Pakistani woman, was found dead while visiting relatives in Pakistan in July of 2016. Relatives claimed that she had died of natural causes, whereas her husband, Syed Mukhtar Kazim, believed that...
