In 2011, the Lebanese Parliament approved a draft-law to cancel article 562 of the penal code that calls for limited punishments for honor killings.
Five years later, the judiciary issued a ruling that gave Manal Assi’s husband, who bludgeoned her to death, a mitigating excuse, seemingly since he killed her after he found out that she was cheating on him with another man.
It is worth noting that the husband has a second wife.
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