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UAE legal reform sees tougher penalties for family killings of women
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has toughened penalties for the killing of women by family members as part of an overhaul of the country's Islamic laws.
The UAE’s government said it would repeal a law that allowed judges to issue lenient sentences for such killings.
- BBC
They usually involve the murder of women perceived to have brought dishonour upon relatives.
Such crimes will be treated like murder from now on, the UAE’s government said.
Human rights groups say that every year thousands of women across the world are killed because they…