Man Charged With Honor Killing In Georgia

CNN reportst that a Pakistani man named Chaudchry Rashid has been accused of killing his daughter because she wanted out of an arranged marriage and told a judge on Tuesday that he had done nothing wrong. Officers found his daughter Sandeela Kanwal dead in an upstairs bedroom of the family's suburban Atlanta home early Sunday, according to a Clayton County police report. Police discovered possible ligature marks on her body and made note of an iron and a necklace as potential causes of the bruising...Police found a 'distraught and possibly mournful' Rashid sitting behind a vehicle in the driveway. 'My daughter is dead,' he told police. When asked how she died, police said Rashid did not answer. 'He just dropped his head,' the report states. 'Apparently she and the father had argued over the marriage and the fact that it was arranged, and at some point during the altercation he did end up killing his daughter,' said Clayton County Police spokesman Tim Owens."


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