Fadime Sahindal, a Turkish immigrant in Sweden, was threatened and shamed by her family when she chose her own boyfriend instead of agreeing to a traditional arranged marriage and spoke out to the Swedish media about her family.The Swedish government helped protect her by giving her a false identity, but when she made a secret trip to visit her mother and sisters, her father shot her in the head. He was found guilty of murder and sentenced for life to prison.
British Pakistani Samaira Nazir had rejected the suitors her family had brought to her, and instead planned to marry an Afghan immigrant. Her family, however, disapproved of him because he was from a different caste. Her brother, Azhar Nazir, and her cousin, Imram Mohammed, murdered her in front of several members of her family by stabbing her 18 times with four different knives. The two were sentenced to life in prison, and her father was set to go to trial as well, but died before the trial.
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