Two female students, one in Egypt and the other in Jordan, were murdered in broad daylight on the campuses where they studied.
The moments of the murder were documented and caused a stir in the Arab world.
No longer a case of unknown murder but a videotaped massacre.
No one knew the name Iman Arshid until yesterday.
From an anonymous young woman, a first-year nursing student, a woman who lives a fairly normal life in Amman and whose entire future is ahead of her, Arshid has become a public figure.
Her name and picture are distributed on the networks, her story is extensively covered.
Her father drove her to a university in Amman, she took the test, finished it two hours later and when she left the classroom, no less than five shots were fired, one of them in her head.
It all happened yesterday morning and within the walls of the university.
"She told me that she had passed the test, and was waiting for her brother to drive her home," said her father Mofid, who only in retrospect found out that this was the last time he would hear her voice.
In media interviews in Jordan, he demanded that the shooter be given the maximum penalty, that is, execution.
"We do not want a pardon, only that he will receive his punishment," he said.
The shooter managed to escape, and the hunt for him continued.
His identity has not yet been revealed, and Jordanian security officials have launched an investigation.
Arshid's friends, some of whom were witnesses to the incident, said the shooter was seen in his 20s, and entered the campus wearing a hat on his head.
After shooting Barshid, he continued firing into the air to disperse the crowd in the area and force himself through an escape route.
The background to the murder is probably Arshid's refusal to comply with the courtship of a man who sought to meet her.
He reportedly threatened her a day before the murder.
"Tomorrow I will come to talk to you and if you do not agree, I will kill you," the threatening language posted.
The shock of the act resonates on the networks with countless reactions expressing disgust.
"The world is not safe for women. They are murdered just because they say no."
"How long will we hear about such crimes and continue to be afraid?", Was written in some of the comments.
Iman Arshi, was shot five times, one of them in the head,
The murder of the Jordanian student came in the midst of a storm in Egypt over the murder of Nira Ashraf, a 21-year-old student who was stabbed to death in front of the gate of the university where she studied north of Cairo, three days ago.
People around her claim that a school friend offered her an engagement, and following her refusal, he attacked her at noon with stab wounds that left her no chance of staying alive.
The brutal attack was carried out in front of passers-by on the busy street, and was documented in a video uploaded to social networks.
The documentation aroused a lot of emotions in Egyptian and Arab public opinion.
No longer a case of unknown murder but a videotaped massacre.
This in itself caused many people to connect with Ashraf and express shock at the ease with which she was murdered.
"Who will be the next victim whose picture will appear next to Iman Arshid and Nira Ashraf?", "Yesterday in Egypt, today in Jordan. "Two victims," "The solution is the death penalty for criminals in the town square, so the next criminal will know what his fate will be," said some of the published comments.
Murder of women is a painful and familiar phenomenon in Arab countries, and usually occurs against a family background or for reasons of "desecration of the family."
These two murder crimes differ in background and place.
This time it is happening on campuses, places that are supposed to provide protection for the male and female students studying in them, and the victims are young female students whose whole sin was that they did not respond to the other party's courtship.
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