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10- May 10 - A 30-year-old mother of six was reportedly stabbed to death with a switchblade by her brothers, aged 44 and 19, after she went missing from her husband’s house for 10 hours.
11- July 9 - A 24-year-old farmer was
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12- July 20 - A 20-year-old man stabbed his
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13- August 11 - A 16-year-old victim of incestuous rape was shot nine times in the head and back while at her father’s home in an Amman suburb by her uncle, who claimed “family honour” as his motive.
14- August 13 - A 28-year-old woman was shot and killed by her 20-year-old brother as she left a wedding because her family disapproved of her husband, to whom she was married for two years.
15- August 26 - A 17-year-old girl died nine
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16- September 8 - A young man in Aqaba confessed to murdering his sister because of her “alleged immoral behaviour”.