Crime After Crime

Despite the relatively good news that Iran has suspended stoning this week, Robert Fisk's sober account of recent honor killings is as tough as it is necessary to read:

So terrible are the details of these "honour" killings, and so many are the women who have been slaughtered, that the story of each one might turn horror into banality. But lest these acts – and the names of the victims, when we are able to discover them – be forgotten, here are the sufferings of a mere handful of women...