Shabana winner brings honor killing to court

Shabana winner brings honor killing to justice Abida Raja was the first winner of the Shabana Rehman Memorial Prize in 2023. She received it for the book "Abida Raja – Frihetens oppælk", written together with journalist Håkon F. Høydal. It gave a close-up picture of growing up as a Norwegian-Pakistani girl in a male-dominated honor culture, while the book is also a brutal story of forced marriage, oppression and violence in close relationships.…