AMMAN — According to The Sisterhood is Global Institute (SIGI), domestic
murders nearly doubled in Jordan over the past year.
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According
to the report, Jordan recorded
25 domestic killings with 35 different victims
in 2022, a 94 percent increase from 2021. SIGI also noted six crimes against
women and girls by perpetrators outside the family.
The
grim toll was the highest that SIGI has recorded in years.
The
report stated that crimes against women and girls, specifically, were less
commonly carried out by perpetrators outside the family, adding that the
majority of the perpetrators of domestic murders were first-degree relatives
such as husbands, fathers, and brothers.
The report stated that crimes against women and girls, specifically, were less commonly carried out by perpetrators outside the family, adding that the majority of the perpetrators of domestic murders were first-degree relatives such as husbands, fathers, and brothers.
Reports
regarding the killings often cite “
family disputes” as the cause.
One
man in Balqa claimed to have shot his sister dead by mistake, and another man
in Irbid claimed to be surprised when his wife died after he beat her.
Sixty
percent of domestic murders targeted women and girls, and 40 percent targeted
children as a whole in 2022, the report said.
Out
of all the governorates, the capital Amman, and Irbid governorate recorded the
highest rates of domestic homicides in 2022.
It
also noted that the last half of 2022 was deadlier than the first six months of
the year.
Just
a few weeks ago, a
teenage girl in Irbid was charged with murdering her father
and two siblings with a pump-action shotgun.
60 percent of domestic murders targeted women and girls, and 40 percent targeted children as a whole in 2022.
One
of the most publicized murders this year was the June shooting of Iman Rashid.
A man shot Rashid at the Applied Science University in Amman after she rejected
his romantic advances.
Her
murder, along with a similar killing in Egypt, led to a region wide outcry
against femicide.
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