Politicians and human rights groups demand justice for Tiba al-Ali after father’s confession
Tiba al-Ali, 22, was killed by her father on 31 January in the southern province of Diwaniya, interior ministry spokesperson Saad Maan said on Twitter on Friday.– and her relatives to “resolve the family dispute in a definitive manner”, Maan said.Maan said that after the police’s initial encounter with the family “we were surprised the next day … with the news of her killing at the hands of her father, as he admitted in his initial confessions”.
She had travelled to Turkey with her family in 2017, but she refused to return home with them and stayed in the country and lived there since, the police source said. Her death has sparked uproar among Iraqis on social media, who have called for protests in Baghdad on Sunday to demand justice in response to her death.
“Women in our societies are hostage to backward customs due to the absence of legal deterrents and government measures – which currently are not commensurate with the size of domestic violence crimes,”
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