A case of “honour” killing has sparked outrage in Iraq after a young YouTuber was killed by her father. Tiba al-Ali, aged 22, was killed by her father on January 31 in the southern province of Diwaniya, interior ministry spokesperson Saad Maan informed on Twitter on Friday.
According to the interior ministry spokesperson, police attempted to mediate between Tiba al-Ali – who lived in Turkey and was visiting Iraq – and her family to “reach appropriate solutions that satisfy everyone to resolve the family dispute permanently.”
His father was said to have been unhappy about her decision to live alone in Turkey.
The spox said that after the police’s initial meeting with the family “we were surprised the next day, when we are supposed to meet with them again, with the news of her killing at the hands of her father, as he admitted in his initial confessions”.
