Honor Crime

Children & Teens

North Texan gets 12 years for helping brother avoid capture in 2008 killing of his teen daughters Yassein Said, 59, was convicted by a jury for helping Yaser Said hide from police for over a dozen years. Yaser was suspected of shooting ... his two daughters inside his taxicab in 2008.

June 4, 2021   

(Dallas Morning News) His brother was accused of gunning down his own teenage daughters as they sat inside his taxicab. But Yassein Said didn’t turn him in. Instead, he helped Yaser Said hide from police for over a dozen years, authorities said. […]

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Irving man who helped fugitive father elude capture gets 10 years in prison Islam Yaser-Abdel Said, 32, helped conceal his father who was one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives. The feds say Yaser Said, 64, murdered Islam Said’s two sisters in 2008 — an alleged crime for which he awaits trial.

April 27, 2021   

(Dallas Morning News) An Irving man was sentenced Tuesday to a decade in federal prison for helping his fugitive father elude capture for more than a dozen years in the alleged murders of his two teenage daughters, federal authorities said. Islam Yaser-Abdel […]

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Girl’s beatings livestreamed

April 3, 2021   

(Otago Daily Times) A teenage refugee was subjected to protracted, livestreamed beatings by her own family after supposedly bringing shame on them, a court has heard. “What’s just absolutely appalling is that she was hit so many times she couldn’t tell the […]

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Irving man admits to harboring fugitive father accused of murdering teenage daughters The FBI said Yaser Said narrowly escaped capture in 2017 after a maintenance worker reported seeing him at a Bedford apartment where he is suspected of staying with his son, Islam Said, documents show.

January 19, 2021   

(Dallas Morning News) An Irving man pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping his fugitive father elude capture for more than a dozen years in the alleged murders of his two teenage daughters, federal authorities said. Islam Yaser-Abdel Said, 32, entered a guilty plea […]

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‘Honor killings’ a false narrative in Lewisville teens’ deaths, Muslim community says After Amina and Sarah Said were found shot to death in 2008, many people were quick to blame their father’s Islamic faith.

August 30, 2020 and   

(Dallas Morning News) Alia Salem remembers how horrific the killings were, and the photos and videos on the TV news of the two Lewisville girls who died. She also remembers how Muslims in North Texas worked to fight rumors and Islamophobic stereotypes, […]

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Yaser Said, accused of killing his two daughters in 2008, was nearly caught in 2017, authorities say The FBI believes Said narrowly escaped after a maintenance worker reported seeing him at a Bedford apartment leased to the fugitive’s son, documents show.

August 28, 2020 and   

(Dallas Morning News) Three years ago, authorities nearly captured Yaser Abdel Said — who spent more than a decade evading law enforcement on suspicion of killing his two teenage daughters in Irving — when a maintenance worker spotted him in a North […]

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Man accused of killing 2 teen daughters in 2008 has been captured, Irving police and FBI announce Yaser Abdel Said, 63, had been on the bureau’s Ten Most Wanted list since 2014 before he was tracked down in the Denton County city of Justin; his son and brother were arrested in Euless on suspicion of harboring him.

August 26, 2020 , , and   

(Dallas Morning News) Yaser Abdel Said, a 63-year-old man who is suspected of killing his two teenage daughters in Irving more than a decade ago, has been captured, authorities announced Wednesday. Said had been on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list […]

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Syrian in forced marriage attempt charged with Malta’s first honour crime Man remanded in custody after allegedly beating his teenage daughter and trying to force her into an arranged marriage

July 9, 2020   

(Malta Today) “Help me, please help me,” were the first words a 15-year-old girl told the police when they stormed her house to arrest her father, who was charged earlier today with Malta’s first “honour crime.” The man, from Syria, was remanded […]

Arts & Entertainment

‘A Regular Woman’: Remembering honor killing victim Hatun Sürücü The film 'A Regular Woman' tells the true story of Hatun Aynur Sürücü, shot dead in 2005 by her own brother to 'protect the family honor.' The haunting work gives a voice to the victim.

May 9, 2019   

(Deutsche Welle) “I was an honor killing” and “The bundle under this shroud is me”: Through sentences like these, an off-screen voice speaks in the name of Hatun Aynur Sürücü, who was shot by one of her brothers on the street in 2005. The film A Regular Woman unsparingly […]