Woman thrown into Egypt’s Nile over divorce, highlights honor violence
According to news reports on Wednesday, an Egyptian man and his family tied up their daughter and threw her into
the Nile river as a result of a divorce to her aging husband, who mistreat her and abused the young woman.
According to their report, the girl had initially refused to marry the elderly man, but then acquiesced to her family
pressure and wed, the report, which cited local Egyptian newspapers said.
After she and the man divorced over abuse, she returned to her family, who when the girl refused to remarry the
man, was tossed into the river in an “honor crime.”
Woman thrown into Egypt’s Nile over divorce, highlights honor violence - Bikya Masr