Noor Faleh Almaleki

An Arizona judge sentenced an Iraqi immigrant on Friday to more than 34 years in prison, about two months after his conviction for running over and killing his 20-year-old daughter because he claimed she had become "too Americanized." A Maricopa County, Arizona, jury in February convicted Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 50, of one count of second-degree murder in the death of Noor Faleh Almaleki. He was also found guilty of aggravated assault for causing serious injuries to Amal Edan Khalaf, the...Read Full Story

There is almost always a marriage involved in these western honor killing cases ~ and that marriage is usually an arranged one for immigration purposes. She was supposed to or [which I believe that under pressure she did] marry his Iraqi cousin to help him to immigrate to the US. Look for the marriage. Defense lawyers had argued that Almaleki was trying to spit on the two women and accidentally ran them over. Almaleki did not testify at trial, but had told police that he loved his daughter...Read Full Story

Iraqi immigrant convicted in Arizona honor killing awaits sentence – Forbes blog Iraqi Immigrant Guilty in ‘Honor Killing’ – TIME Iraqi immigrant convicted in Arizona aposhonor killingapos awaits sentence – CNN Buzz Search A jury convicted an Iraqi immigrant of second-degree murder Tuesday for running over and killing his daughter in a case prosecutors called an ‘honor killing. Faleh Hassan Almaleki was convicted Tuesday in the 2009 death of his daughter, Noor Faleh Almaleki. STORY...Read Full Story

An Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his daughter because she was too Americanized goes on trial this month in Arizona in a case that raised awareness about incidents of "honor killings" in the United States. Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 50, faces life in prison. In October 2009, he ran over his 20-year-old daughter Noor Almaleki with his Jeep Grand Cherokee because she had the nerve to refuse an arranged marriage in Iraq that he had set up for her. After he initially struck her with his...Read Full Story

Opening statements in the trial of an Iraqi immigrant, who killed his daughter because he believed she was too Americanized, are to begin today in a case prosecutors call an "honor killing." Faleh Almaleki slammed his Jeep Grand Cherokee into his 20-year-old daughter, Noor Almaleki, and her boyfriend's mother in the parking lot of a state Department of Economic Security office in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria in 2009. The mother lived, but Noor was in a coma for two weeks before she...Read Full Story