Arash Ghorbani-Zarin
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Arash Ghorbani-Zarin (1986 - 2004) was an Iranian student at Oxford Brookes University who was murdered by the brothers of his girlfriend, Manna Begum in a case of honour killing. His body was discovered in a car in Rosehill, Oxford, on November 20, 2004. He had been stabbed 46 times. Miss Begum's father, Bangladeshi-born waiter Chomir Ali (44), had intended for his daughter to enter a forced marriage, which she had refused. When his daughter became pregnant he ordered his sons Mohammed Mujibar Rahman (19) and Mamnoor Rahman (16) to kill Ghorbani-Zarin. The Royal Courts of Justice in London sentenced Ali to jail for life and his sons to a minimum terms of 16 and 14 years respectively.[1] [2]
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- ^ BBC News: Family guilty of 'honour killing', November 4, 2005
- ^ BBC News: Jail for 'honour killing' family, December 12, 2005
