Tursunoy Saidazimova
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Tursunoy Saidazimova, occasionally transliterated as Tursunoi Saidazimova, was one of the first Uzbek actresses in the Uzbek SSR and one of the first to sing onstage without a face-veil. She was kille
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Honor killing
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An "honor killing", also called a shame killing, refers to murder that is committed by members of the victim's family or intimate partner with the motivation of preserving or recovering the "honor" th
Tursunoy Saidazimova
…was one of the first Uzbek actresses in the Uzbek SSR and one of the first to sing onstage without a face-veil. She was killed by her husband in an honor killing just shortly after her career took off. She met Hamza Niyazi in 1926 in Tashkent who befriended her and convinced her to join an opera. From 1925 to…
One of the world regions with a long tradition of honor-based violence is the Mediterranean
The Middle East, a region where many honor killings occur
The Indian subcontinent, a region where honor killings also occur, namely by reasons of caste