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Episode 89 - Shafilea Ahmed: The Price of "Honour"

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In 2003 16 year old Shafilea Ahmed disappeared from her family home in Warrington, she was presumed missing but the truth was much more horrific. She’d been killed by her own parents because the “dishonour” she was bringing to her family was just too high a price to pay for her to live. Join the girls this week as the delve into the infuriating and heartbreaking world of “honour” based violence and murder.


https://www.theguardian.com/uk/shafilea-ahmed?page=2

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0:22.3

Hi guys, just before we get on with the show today, we have a very quick

0:26.0

favor to ask you. You might remember around this time last year, a couple of

0:31.2

nobody's made it into the top 20 of the listeners' choice category for the

0:35.4

British podcast awards and it is that time of year again. If we get into the

0:40.4

top 10 this year, we're gonna give you an extra episode and if we win, I don't

0:44.9

know what I'm gonna do but something, something amazing. So please, please, please

0:48.7

click the link in the episode description and give us your vote for the

0:53.6

listeners' choice category of the British podcast awards. Doesn't matter where

0:58.0

you are in the world, anyone can vote. You don't have to be British but we are.

1:01.8

Thank you so much on with the show.

1:07.3

I'm Sarruti. I'm Hannah and welcome to Redhanded. In September 2003, 17-year-old

1:12.7

Shafelia Armed disappeared, seemingly from her family home in Warrington,

1:16.8

Northwest England. Shafelia was the eldest of five children, four girls and one

1:21.2

boy born to British Pakistani parents, Iftica and Fasana Armed. She was a

1:25.9

bright and ambitious girl who worked incredibly hard at school, had a part-time

1:29.6

job, had a good group of friends and dreamt of one day becoming a barrister.

1:33.6

To the outside world, Shafelia would have seemed like the perfect daughter but

1:37.8

not to Iftica and Fasana. To them, Shafelia was a serious problem. Today we're

1:42.5

talking about an issue that is personally for me incredibly near to my heart,

1:46.5

the idea of honour-based violence and murder. And I guess we could call it a

1:51.6

cultural phenomenon that we see predominantly in South Asian and Middle East in

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