Family threatens honor killing - Iraqi woman fights her deportation in court

A woman from Iraq is on trial for being deported. Her family threatens her with honor killing - this forces the court to take drastic measures. 

• A young woman from Iraq is said to be deported to her country of origin.
• But homicide threatens in her homeland.
• So the administrative court of Göttingen decided.

Göttingen - Because she faces a so-called "honor killing" in her home country, a woman from Iraq must not be deported to her country of origin. The administrative court of Göttingen decided that.

The Göttingen court partially upheld a complaint by a young Iraqi against the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees. The authority had rejected her asylum application and decided that she had no residence permit and therefore had to leave Germany within 30 days. 

Göttingen: Iraqi woman faces deportation

Otherwise, she could face deportation. According to the court in Göttingen, however , the woman from Iraq has subsidiary protection status. Reason: It can be assumed that the applicant will be exposed to family violence upon return and may even be at risk of death (file number 2 A 917/17).

Before she left her home country in autumn 2015, the young woman had lived in the city of Kerbala with her parents, brother and sister. She justified her application for asylum by saying that her father mistreated her and threatened her with death because she secretly married a man who was not comfortable with the family. 

Göttingen: Young woman from Iraq escapes to Germany

The father described her as a disgrace to the family and rejected it. Then she went with her own jewelry and her mother's gold to a friend who had helped her escape.

The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees rejected her asylum application and also did not want to grant her refugee status or subsidiary protection status. The authority considered their information to be unbelievable, since it was too poor in detail and vague.

Göttingen: Iraqi woman should marry cousin

The court in Göttingen , however, came to a different opinion. The woman from Iraq has not put forward a coherent and comprehensible congruent persecution happening at the hearing at the hearing. 

As a result, the Iraqi fell in love with a young man at the university. When he asked for her hand, her family refused. Instead, she should marry a cousin. In order to prevent her from keeping in touch with her boyfriend, the mother took a cell phone from her.

Göttingen: Secret wedding - Iraqi woman marries another man

The Iraqi woman said that they had ignored it and secretly married religiously to a sheikh. Her friend said that her father would have no other option but to say "yes". After the marriage, they would have slept together.

When her unsuspecting parents forbade her to go back to university after the semester break, she asked her boyfriend to hold her hand again. After that, he was suddenly no longer found. 

Göttingen: Iraqi woman threatens honor killing

The Iraqi woman then told her mother that she was already married and could not marry another man, whereupon she fainted. After her father found out, he beat her, threatened her with death, and kicked her out of the family. In the meantime, the clan had excluded her family and "released" her to kill in order to restore the "family honor".

By Heidi Niemann

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