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Dateline: Jailing the innocent
Tue, Sep 30 2008
Coming up on Dateline, video journalist Yaara Bou Melhem meets the women of Jordan who've been imprisoned under the guise of keeping them safe.
Every year, up to 20 Jordanian women are murdered in honour killings. In response, the country's 12 governors have been given the power to lock up the innocent victims, rather than go after the would-be perpetrators.
Bou Melhem travels to Jordan to find out what life is like for women fleeing honour killings in that country.
She's speaking with Peggy Giakoumelos.
(photo: Dr. Faegheh Shirazi, associate professor in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures in the College of Liberal Arts at The University of Texas at Austin, is the author of "The Veil Unveiled: The Hijab in Modern Culture." Dr. Shirazi models a face veil called Arosiya, a wedding veil from Bedouin tribes in Jordan. )
