The courageous, inspiring story of Sarbjit Kaur Athwal, who bravely
fought for justice, risking her own life, after her sister-in-law
was murdered in an honor killing by her husband's familyIn 1998,
Sarbjit Athwal was called by her husband to attend a family
meeting. It looked like just another family gathering. An
attractive house in west London, a large dining room, two brothers,
their mother, one wife. But the subject they were discussing was
anything but ordinary. At the head of the group sat the elderly
mother. She stared proudly around, smiling at her children, then
raised her hand for silence. "It's decided then," the old lady
announced. "We have to get rid of her." "Her" was Surjit Athwal,
Sarbjit's sister-in-law. Within three weeks of that meeting, Surjit
was dead: lured from London to India, drugged, strangled, and her
body dumped in the Ravi River, never to be seen again."""After the
killing, risking her own life, Sarbjit fought secretly for justice
for nine long, scared years. Eventually, with immense bravery, she
became the first person within a murderer's family ever to go into
open court in an honor killing trial as the prosecution's key
witness, and the first to waive her anonymity in such a trial. As a
result of her testimony, the trial led to the first successful
prosecution of an honor killing without the body ever being found.
But her story doesn't end there. Since the trial, her life has been
threatened; her own husband arrested after an allegation of
intimidation. This is a story of fear and of horror--but also of
immense courage, and a woman who risked everything to see that
justice was done.
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