{"id":1178,"date":"2017-02-01T08:55:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T08:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2017-02-01T08:55:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T08:55:57","slug":"ban-the-term-honour-killing-to-stop-political-correctness-getting-in-the-way-of-police-investigations-mp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/ban-the-term-honour-killing-to-stop-political-correctness-getting-in-the-way-of-police-investigations-mp-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban the term &#8216;honour killing&#8217; to stop political correctness getting in the way of police investigations, MP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"m_first-letter\">T<\/span>he term &#8220;honour\u00a0killing&#8221; should be banned because &#8220;political correctness&#8221; is putting police off investigating domestic violence, a Conservative MP has said.<\/p>\n<p>Nusrat Ghani warned that police officers can be wary of intervening fully in so-called\u00a0honour\u00a0cases for fear of offending the community.<\/p>\n<p>The MP for Wealden is proposing a Bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/07\/20\/theresa-may-says-there-is-no-honour-in-so-called-honour-killings\/\">which will ban the term &#8220;honour\u00a0killing&#8221; in official publications <\/a>and strengthen the support given to women who are subjected to domestic violence and killed while abroad.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/11\/07\/cps-afraid-to-tackle-honour-crimes\/\"> a whistleblower told the Telegraph that the Crown Prosecution Service is failing to prosecute\u00a0honour\u00a0crimes <\/a>for fear of causing &#8220;unrest&#8221; in Asian communities.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/01\/30\/ban-term-honour-killing-stop-political-correctness-getting-way\/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;honour\u00a0killing&#8221; should be banned because &#8220;political correctness&#8221; is putting police off investigating domestic violence, a Conservative MP has said. Nusrat Ghani warned that police officers can be wary of intervening fully in so-called\u00a0honour\u00a0cases for fear of offending the community. The MP for Wealden is proposing a Bill which will ban the term &#8220;honour\u00a0killing&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honour-killings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}