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Murder In Purdah


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Subjects: Islam, Middle Eastern Studies, Violence Against Women, Women's Studies, World Religions

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No		 Running Time: 45 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No
Copyright Date: 1998
Available in French: No

In Pakistan, men kill their wives with impunity while women wait on death row for killing their husbands. Away from the city elites, many women live as prisoners, forbidden to make decisions about their lives. MURDER IN PURDAH reveals that those who rebel - who choose to marry for love - face violent reprisals. Burned, tortured and murdered in the name of Islam, women even suspected of sex outside marriage are justifiably killed by their own fathers, brothers, and sons - in defence of their honour. In Pakistan, there is no escape. Reporter Olenka Frenkiel and producer Giselle Portenier travel across Pakistan to reveal this systematic abuse of women's human rights, perpetrated in the name of Islam as a matter of honour.

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