Pakistan police on Friday said a father shot dead his daughter after she refused to delete her account on popular video-sharing app TikTok.
In the Muslim-majority country, women can be subjected to violence by family members for not following strict rules on how to behave in public, including in online spaces.
“The girl’s father had asked her to delete her TikTok account. On refusal, he killed her,” a police spokesperson told AFP.
According to a police report shared with AFP, investigators said the father killed his 16-year-old daughter on Tuesday “for honor.” He was subsequently arrested.
Doesn’t anyone find the recent uptick in articles about Islamic fundamentalist crimes odd? There are billions of people in the world and these sorts of things happen frequently, yet they rarely receive non-local news coverage. It seems to me like the media is capitalizing on rising Islamophobia (due to the escalating conflicts in the Middle East) by releasing sensational articles about Islamic extremism, which has the effect of drumming up more Islamophobic hate. When crimes like this are committed in the US by Christians the media tends to blame mental illness.
I mean a white christian german man killed an algerian med student in Germany 3 days ago and we don’t see much news about it.
Murder of Algerian woman in Germany prompts protests, calls for justice
Probably prepping for a global genocide
What is this Meta media literacy? Real talk though, I bet you could find the Christian equivalent if you looked hard enough.
Recent news of Cristian parents letting a daughter die of disease
Are you daring to suggest that posts on Lemmy by certain accounts are only to manipulate public opinion. No!!!1
Yeah now that I look at it, OP is a bot that just posts toxic news. It’s also not self-tagged as a bot account.
Yeah, I have no idea why CBS is reporting on this Pakistan stuff. I don’t need to hear about murders in random countries.
PS: 1000 people are murdered every day all over the world. Roughly 30% of those are intrafamilial.