Jordanian charged after sister shot in suspected 'honour' killing

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

AMMAN (AFP) — A 26-year-old Jordanian man was charged with murder on Friday after his 23-year-old sister was shot dead in an apparent "honour" killing, a security official said.

The unnamed suspect allegedly shot his sister six times on Thursday night in the Nqeira area south of the capital Amman, the official told AFP.

"He turned himself in and confessed to murdering his sister to cleanse his family's honour because she disappeared from home for four months with a man," the official said.

"He killed her the moment she returned home last night. But forensic tests showed that the girl was a virgin."

It was the eighth reported so-called honour killing this year, according to Jordanian authorities which in 2007 recorded 17 such murders -- a slight rise...