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Arab Israeli charged with killing mother in 'honor killing'

JERUSALEM –  Israeli police say a man from an Arab village in the north of the country has been indicted for fatally shooting his mother in a case of so-called "honor killing."

Spokeswoman Luba Samri says the 23-year-old man, a member of Israel's Arab minority, shot his 46-year-old mother six times at close range in July.

Samri said on Thursday that the son suspected "his mother was behaving contrary to the accepted norms in their society."

Arab women in conservative Muslim communities have been murdered in the past by their relatives for conduct perceived as besmirching their family's honor.

In many Muslim communities across the Middle East sex out of wedlock or even just dating is seen as a stain on the family reputation that can only be cleansed with blood.

The horrific execution scene that got a film banned... and why the director hopes it will stop death row woman being stoned

She is drenched in blood and crumpled on the ground, mutilated face partially obscured by a mass of dark hair. Over an excruciating seven-and-a-half minutes, she has been disowned by her family, buried to her waist in a hole at the centre of the village square and finally reduced to tattered rags of flesh by a baying mob hurling stones. Now, tentative, her husband bends to examine her face. The filmy eye blinks. He recoils. 'The bitch is still alive,' he shouts. There is a roar of fury and the crowd close in.

It is the gut-wrenching finale to a deeply shocking film. On the night I saw The Stoning of Soraya M, some simply could not watch. Later director Cyrus Nowrasteh tells me that there are always walkouts. ‘But they all come back,’ he said. ‘They want to know what happens at the end.’

In person, Nowrasteh is immaculately dressed, gently-spoken and mild-mannered. He seems an unlikely candidate to direct a film that some critics consider a rather sophisticated form of torture porn. And then there are the repercussions. The Stoning is set in Iran and, needless to say, the Iranian authorities are not impressed. ‘They condemned it and then banned it,’ Nowrasteh shrugs. ‘Though I think some Iranians have seen it and people are definitely discussing it. I’ve heard reports about bootleg copies and a woman wrote to me and said everyone was talking about it when she went to the hairdressers.’

The Stoning has haunted Nowrasteh, an American with Iranian parents, for many years. Based on a book by journalist Freidoune Sahebjam, it tells the true story of Soraya, who was accused of adultery in a remote village in Iran in 1986. The charge was a complete fabrication concocted by her unfaithful husband – but she paid for his lies with her life. After the stoning, her bones were picked clean by wild dogs and then laid in the earth by her aunt Zahra. The villagers believed her story would be buried with her but Zahra had other ideas, risking her own safety to tell Sahebjam whose car broke down near the village shortly after the execution.

Soraya is played by Mozhan Marno, chosen because she is ‘beautiful and ordinary at the same time’, her aunt by Shohreh Aghdashloo, best-known for her role as Nadi in House of Sand and Fog. Jim Caviezel cameos as Sahebjam. The film, shot in a remote and extraordinarily beautiful village in Jordan, threw up huge technical and logistical challenges culminating in the horror of the execution sequence. There were no precedents as no-one has ever filmed a stoning in such unflinching detail before. It took six days and left cast and crew completely drained.

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