A Woman In An Arranged Marriage Gets Killed By Her Abusive Husband

Being in an arranged marriage is difficult enough because you really don't know much about one another.And it becomes nightmarish when the man that was picked to be your husband turns out to be an abuser.That's what happened to Sabina Akhtar in Britain.She tried to escape a terrible union,but it was to no avail.Her abusive husband wound up stabbing her to death.Here's more on that from the Telegraph:

"THE family of a woman stabbed to death by her husband reacted with fury yesterday after it emerged how he was freed to kill by a legal error.

Malik Mannan murdered wife Sabina Akhtar five days after a prosecuting lawyer said there wasn’t enough evidence to charge him with attacking her 25 TIMES.

Mannan, 36, was yesterday jailed for life at Manchester Crown Court — and told he would serve at least 17 years. Sabina’s uncle Reaz Talukder said outside the court: “Sabina’s parents blame the CPS for their decision not to charge Mannan at an earlier stage.

“This was simply negligence — if they had charged him she might not be dead.”

Mum of one Sabina, 26 — who wed Mannan in an arranged married in Bangladesh — went to the police in July 2008 after a string of beatings from the taxi driver, the court heard.

He had gripped Sabina by the throat, thrown her to the floor and kicked her in the stomach.

In a statement to police, she said: “My husband is a man of an extreme violent nature. If he gets the opportunity, he will kill me.”

Mannan was arrested on suspicion of assault and making threats to kill, but was freed on bail.

Terrified Sabina had a panic alarm fitted at her home and told pals her life was in danger.

Two months later Mannan was arrested for breaching bail conditions, but was freed by the Crown Prosecution Service.

As he swaggered back on to the streets, he texted Sabina to boast: “I am a free man, since 1.30. Case file closed. Isn’t it great.”

Five days later Mannan broke into the marital home in Levenshulme, Manchester, and plunged a kitchen knife into Sabina’s chest.

The CPS yesterday apologised for its handling of the case."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.

Was this an "honor killing"? That's what some are calling the case of the Muslim television station owner who beheaded his wife in New York.Like Sabina Akhtar,this woman was leaving her husband.Here's more on that story from Yahoo:

"The crime drips with brutal irony: a woman decapitated, allegedly by her estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple founded with the hope of countering Muslim stereotypes.

Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan is accused of beheading his wife last week, days after she filed for divorce. Authorities have not discussed the role religion or culture might have played, but the slaying gave rise to speculation that it was the sort of "honor killing" more common in countries half a world away, including the couple's native Pakistan."(END OF EXCERPT)Read the rest here.