Girl shot dead for refusing to marry cousin

A grieving father is demanding justice for his murdered daughter after she was allegedly shot dead by the man she was ordered to marry.

                The Kurdish dad - known only as Ghazi H - posted a picture of 21-year-old daughter Shilan’s dead body on Facebook after she was killed at a wedding in Germany,

                Ghazi claims that his daughter was killed for refusing to marry her own cousin in an arranged marriage.

He wrote alongside the graphic images: “It is with the deepest sense of loss and pain that I announce the loss of my daughter.

                “She died in a pool of her own blood, as a victim of a treacherous tradition.”

                According to Ghazi, his two brothers - identified as Numan H and Hassan H - had tried to arrange a forced marriage for the Shilan to her cousin Sefin, 22, but she had refused.

                She told her father that she did not love the man she was supposed to marry, and rejected the suggestion.

                Ghazi, who fled Iraq with his family for a new life in Germany when his daughter was three-years-old, said that he had left his brother looking after his family while he was working on a project in Iraq.

                He claims that his brother had already started to make arrangement for the forced marriage behind his back but Ghazi called it off when he found out from his daughter what was happening.