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Daily Mail
9 hours ago
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Hero schoolboy tells how he saved girlfriend when her Muslim parents tried to strangle her in 'honor killing'
A heroic teenage boy has described how he saved his girlfriend's life as her parents allegedly tried to strangle her in an 'honor killing'. Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, are charged with second-degree attempted murder and attempted kidnapping after the attack on October 18. The girl, 17, who can't be named, ran away from home to Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington, after her parents tried to put her on a plane to Iraq. 'Her father had recently been threatening her with honor killing for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man in another county,' the girl told police. Shocking video showed Ihsan on the ground with his daughter in a chokehold outside the school, while classmates desperately tried to free her. Ihsan and Zahraa both pleaded not guilty and are expected to go on trial in July. The girl met her boyfriend at the school after she fled her home and school officials arranged for her to stay at a women's shelter. However, the school did not arrange transport there, so the couple went outside to catch a bus, and spotted Ihsan's pickup truck in the car park. The teenage boy explained to police in an interview on November 6 that a friend told him Ihsan had seen them and was heading their way. '[The girl] was scared, shaking, and had a tremble in her voice,' Detective Julie Mullen wrote in a report obtained by the Daily Mail. The boy stood between his girlfriend and her father as they tried to get to the bus as it arrived, and attempted to separate them when Ihsan tried to pull her away. Ihsan then allegedly punched him in the head and he remembered falling down and everything going black. '[He] said when he got up [the girl's] dad was "choking" her and [two other students] punched [Ihsan] in the face and people were yelling to call 911,' Mullen wrote. 'He started punching her dad in the face but he continued to choke [the girl] and said others were trying to pull her out while he continued to punch her dad in the head. 'He continued to punch Ishan until his "head got soft" and he got knocked out.' The boy then helped his girlfriend off the ground, but she 'couldn't breathe' and didn't know what was going on. Just as he was helping her to his feet, he alleged Zahraa and the girl's eldest sister Haneen, 21, came up behind them and pushed him out of the way to get to her. He told police he tried to 'fight them off' by putting up his arm up and pushing them away, and in the melee the girl and Zahraa were pushed to the ground. 'Once [the girl] and her mom were on the ground, her mom put her arm around her neck and started choking her,' Mullen wrote. He said that as he tried to pull the girl away from Zahraa, Haneen yelled 'what are you doing this?' at him. The boy was eventually able to pull his girlfriend to her feet and then away from Haneen when she allegedly grabbed her, and flee towards the school. The brave teenager suffered a 'boxer's fracture' to his finger as he tried to get Ishan off his girlfriend, and bruises and scratches on his head and face. He wasn't diagnosed with a concussion but had symptoms such as sensitivity to light and headaches when he tried to watch TV or play video games. His mother told police it 'took him several days to talk about the incident without crying'. The boy also told police about an earlier incident at the school with Zahraa on September 16 last year where she attacked him. He explained the incident was sparked by Zahraa seeing him and the girl kiss three times outside the school. The girl told him her 'life was ruined' after she realized that her mother had spotted them. '[The girl's] mom grabbed his arm and told him to get in her car but he continued to walk to the bus. [The boy] said he was yelling and causing a scene,' Mullen wrote. The girl earlier told police in a three-hour interview with police on October 24 that she ran away because she was terrified of being taken to Iraq where she would be married off, abused, and forced to have children - never to return home. She explained that after her boyfriend was knocked to the floor with his eyes closed, Ihsan grabbed her in a viscous attack. '[The girl] said her dad yanked her down and put her in a headlock. She said he was "choking" her "really hard" and she remembered grabbing his arm but then passed out,' police wrote. From there, her memory of Ihsan's attack ended, and she only knew what happened by watching the video of her boyfriend and classmates heroically saving her life. But the attempt on her life was not over, as Zahraa allegedly seized her and tried to finish the 'honor killing'. 'Someone pushed them to the ground, and then her mom started to choke her and was screaming in her ear,' Mullen wrote. The girl also detailed her father's alleged threats to kill her for dating an American boy, and refusing an arranged marriage. 'If I could kill you, I would kill you, but I can't do that. I can't do that because there's cops and CPS people involved right now because of you,' she claimed he said. 'And I can't touch you because you will immediately go to the school.' The girl told police Ihsan another time told her he wanted to 'hurt her so badly but there are cops here' but also told her how he would 'kill her no matter what happens' and he 'did not care if anyone saw him'. Police bodycam footage obtain by showed officers arriving at the school and arresting Ihsan, who demanded to speak to his daughter. 'Just let me tell her to come home - not like that. If I tell her to go home, she will go home,' he insisted, but police ignored him. Officers then had to deal with Zahraa and Haneen, who were hysterical and only left after Zahraa was allowed to speak to Ihsan. These are some of the cuts, welts, and broken bones the teenage girl suffered when her parents allegedly tried to strangle her in an 'honor killing' Police did not realize Zahraa also allegedly tried to kill her daughter until four days later, leaving her free to continue looking for her daughter, who was in hiding. Zahraa drove her youngest children, two boys aged five and three, into Canada and dropped them off with an Ihsan's brother and mother, who lived there. She then returned to Washington before trying to cross into Canada a second time with a 'notable quantity of baggage' on the night of October 22, but was arrested by customs officers.
Daily Mail
15-06-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Girl's harrowing account of how Muslim parents tried to strangle her in 'honor killing' outside American school
A schoolgirl has described the moment her parents allegedly tried to strangle her in an 'honor killing' after she ran away to escape a forced marriage. Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, are charged with second-degree attempted murder and attempted kidnapping after the attack on October 18. The girl, 17, who can't be named, ran away from home to Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington, after her parents tried to put her on a plane to Iraq. 'Her father had recently been threatening her with honor killing for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man in another county,' the girl told police. Shocking video showed Ihsan on the ground with his daughter in a chokehold outside the school, while classmates desperately tried to free her. Ihsan and Zahraa both pleaded not guilty and are expected to go on trial in July. The girl told police in a three-hour interview with police on October 24 she was terrified of being taken to Iraq where she would be married off, abused, and forced to have children - never to return home. She went to Iraq when she was 16 to visit extended family, but was repulsed by 'how they treated women' compared to her life in the US. 'If she went outside, she had to be completely covered and the men would still look at the women. She described it as "disgusting",' Detective Julie Mullen wrote in a report obtained by the Daily Mail. Zahraa stayed behind in Iraq another three months, and when she returned, the girl was dismayed to be told they had bought a house there and would all be moving back. 'She said her fear of going to Iraq was not returning (to the US), getting abused and that her family might try to kill her,' police wrote. 'She also concerned that someone would try to "get with her", beat her and try to have kids with her.' Whether the planned move was abandoned or was merely a longer-term plan was unclear, and the girl began dating an American boy in early 2024. After Ihsan discovered the relationship, he pulled her out of school and bought most of the family plane tickets to Iraq for an arranged marriage. The girl told police she made her family think she would go, but was secretly planning her escape - only allowing them to pack clothes she didn't want to keep. She awoke at 4am on the day of the flight and was able to sneak out by 6am after her sister went back to bed. By 6.12am she was on the bus and waited at Safeway and Walmart until Timberline opened at 7am, dodging her parents as they drove around looking for her. Eventually she made it to the school and was kept in an office while staff worked out a plan for her to stay at a women's refuge. However, the school did not arrange transport for her, so she went out the front with her 16-year-old boyfriend to catch a bus. That's when she spotted Ihsan's truck in the car park and 'started panicking and her heart was racing'. Suddenly, he was in front of her. At first he was calm, quiet, and smiling, telling her she needed to come home. Having allegedly suffered horrific abuse at his hands, she didn't fall for it. '[The girl] said that was not like her dad and she felt if she went home, she was going to be beat or they were going to make fun of her,' police wrote. She told police her father said 'Heron' in Arabic, which meant, 'It's not right, you're not supposed to be doing this'. The boyfriend put a protective hand on her back as she confronted her father, but this only enraged Ihsan more. Just as the bus arrived, and while other students were recording the scene on their phones, Ihsan allegedly punched him in the head. With the boyfriend knocked to the floor with his eyes closed, Ihsan grabbed his daughter in a viscous attack. '[The girl] said her dad yanked her down and put her in a headlock. She said he was "choking" her "really hard" and she remembered grabbing his arm but then passed out,' police wrote. From there, her memory of Ihsan's attack ended, and she only knew what happened by watching the video of her boyfriend and classmates heroically saving her life. But the attempt on her life was not over, as Zahraa allegedly seized her and tried to finish the 'honor killing'. '[The girl] said she also recalled someone else grabbing her but she didn't know it was her mom at first,' police wrote in the report. 'Someone pushed them to the ground, and then her mom started to choke her and was screaming in her ear. 'Her mom wasn't choking her that hard and she was trying to tell her mom she was choking her but she couldn't say anything.' The girl then described how her eldest sister Haneen, 21, who is not charged with a crime, allegedly tried to fight off students trying to stop Zahraa. As she tried to get to her feet, she said Haneen was yelling at her boyfriend not to touch Zahraa or herself. '[The girl] said she got up and Haneen was grabbing onto her and when she let go she and ran and she was screaming,' police wrote. The girl and her boyfriend ran inside the school with Zahraa in hot pursuit, but her mother was prevented from entering out and the campus put on lockdown. 'She explained her neck felt heated, it hurt badly, her throat was sore, she was in pain, had scratches on her neck, dirt on her hands and leaves in her hair,' police wrote. '[The girl] said said the scariest part was blacking out because she didn't know if she was going to wake up again. 'She also said she "never thought he would hit me or choke me".' The girl told police she feared being abused and killed if she got on the plane to Iraq with her family, which was why she fled. 'Men think they can control women and the women can't do anything about it,' police wrote that she told them. '[She] explained forced marriage is a part of their religion and her parents were in a forced marriage and they are cousins. 'She said for "us" (women) if she had sex with more than one person "she dies" but men are treated differently and she explained they can have more than one sexual partner.' The girl also detailed her father's alleged threats to kill her for dating an American boy, and refusing an arranged marriage. She said his threats escalated after the September 15 incident and an altercation outside the school between her boyfriend and Zahraa the next day. Ihsan was so furious he pulled her out of school for the weeks until the October 18 attack. 'If I could kill you, I would kill you, but I can't do that. I can't do that because there's cops and CPS people involved right now because of you,' she claimed he said. 'And I can't touch you because you will immediately go to the school.' The girl told police Ihsan another time told her he wanted to 'hurt her so badly but there are cops here' but also told her how he would 'kill her no matter what happens' and he 'did not care if anyone saw him'. '[The girl] said the reason why her father threatened to kill her [was] because she has made 'trouble at home' and he believes she is trying to 'separate the family',' the report alleged. She said one time her dad caught her using a cell phone and dragged her by the hair, which caused her to 'hit the wall' and hurt her knee. Police bodycam footage obtained by the Daily Mail showed officers arriving at the school and arresting Ihsan, who demanded to speak to his daughter. 'Just let me tell her to come home - not like that. If I tell her to go home, she will go home,' he insisted, but police ignored him. Officers then had to deal with Zahraa and Haneen, who were hysterical and only left after Zahraa was allowed to speak to Ihsan. Police did not realize Zahraa also allegedly tried to kill her daughter until four days later, leaving her free to continue looking for her daughter, who was in hiding. Zahraa drove her youngest children, two boys aged five and three, into Canada and dropped them off with an Ihsan's brother and mother, who lived there. She then returned to Washington before trying to cross into Canada a second time with a 'notable quantity of baggage' on the night of October 22, but was arrested by customs officers. The boyfriend suffered a boxer's fracture as he tried to get Ishan off his girlfriend, and bruises and scratches on his head and face. The girl spent four days in St Peter Hospital for treatment after a strangulation exam, having complained of neck, throat, and jaw pain, and had difficulty swallowing. Hospital staff listed her injuries as including redness and abrasions to her face, head, shoulders, neck, scalp, and under her chin. She also had suffered burst blood vessels in her eyes and an eyelid droop. 'She believes she lost consciousness three to four times during the incident,' court documents alleged, adding that at one point she woke up with dirt pressed into her face. '[The girl] stated that she thought she was going to die.' Victor Barnes, the boyfriend's father, explained that his son started dating the girl in February 2024, and her family kept it a secret from Ihsan, who was often out of town running his business. 'He's an abusive man. So they just didn't tell him because... they may think he'll fly off the handle and do something crazy like he did,' he said. Ihsan was not initially charged with attempted murder, and released from jail on October 24 on just a $150,000 bond after a hearing in Thurston County Superior Court before Judge John Skinder. Zahraa faced a different judge - Christopher Lanese - on the same day, but she was charged with attempted murder and held on $500,000 bail. Almost two weeks after his release, on November 5, second-degree attempted murder was finally added to Ihsan's charges. Ihsan was re-arrested and his bail raised to $1million, which was too much for him to pay. He remains in jail, while Zahraa's bond was unchanged.
Daily Mail
25-05-2025
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Shocking new revelations about father who attempted to 'strangle his teen daughter in honor killing'
A girl almost strangled by her parents in an alleged 'honor killing' has explained how horrific abuse began after her sister was diagnosed with cancer. Ihsan Ali, 44, and his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, are charged with second-degree attempted murder and attempted kidnapping after the attack on October 18. The girl, 17, who wasn't named, ran away from home to Timberline High School in Lacey, Washington, after her parents tried to put her on a plane to Iraq. 'Her father had recently been threatening her with honor killing for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man in another county,' the girl told police. Shocking video allegedly showed Ihsan on the ground with his daughter in a chokehold outside the school, while classmates desperately tried to free her. Ihsan and Zahraa both pleaded not guilty and are expected to go on trial in July. After she was freed and escaped alleged murder attempts by both her parents and fled into the school with her boyfriend, 16, she detailed shocking claims of abuse to cops going back years. A police report newly released to of a three-hour interview with the girl on October 24 explained it started while the family lived in Arizona. The family moved to the US from Iraq when she was in elementary school, and before long her little sister Jenat-Alhuissa Ali was diagnosed with bone cancer. Ihsan did not take the news well, and began 'hitting her and her siblings for the smallest things', Detective Julie Mullen wrote in her report. The girl said the abuse got 'really bad' when they moved to Washington state to get better healthcare for her sister and be closer to her uncle in Canada. 'She gave an example of her dad stripping her little sister naked and throwing out her clothes because she didn't want to wear certain things,' police wrote. 'Her dad also ripped all of her clothes up and threw them away because he thought they looked bad.' Jenat-Alhuissa died in hospice care on January 31, 2021, aged nine. The girl said the family knew Ihsan 'was going to get really violent' whenever he said, 'Turn up the TV, let's talk'. One time he hit her older sister Norrulhuda (Nora), now 19, 'with the wood end of a shovel on her arms leaving bruises for sneaking away to visit a friend'. Another time her oldest sister Haneen, now 21, accidently spilled tea on Ihsan after Nora tripped her, so he grabbed the teapot and threw tea on Haneen. He then 'grabbed her by the hair and threw her to the ground', leaving a scratch on her head. But the girl said the worst abuse was reserved for her little brother, who is autistic and Ihsan had little patience for his condition. One time he force-fed the little boy spaghetti until he choked, then slapped him in the face, according to the report. 'She said the second incident her father took her brother to work with him who in turn 'tasted' the 'blue thing' in the urinal,' the report detailed. She said her dad got mad at him and 'hurt' her brother with the belt, which left bruises all over his back. 'She said the third time her brother was in the bathroom and he 'pooped' on the floor. She said her dad got upset with him and shoved the poop in his mouth to make him 'taste it'. The girl also alleged her father threw a watermelon at her brother's back, who then fell over and the fruit 'broke open all over his back'. A particularly violent episode was few months before the October 18 attack, when Ihsan accused her two cousins, aged 10 and 12, of stealing $10,000 in cash that went missing. Ihsan allegedly 'beat them with a shower curtain rod and broke the wall' and threw a wooden vase at her grandmother when she tried to intervene. The girl said she didn't see her cousins being beaten but she 'heard them screaming'. Haneen and Nora were allegedly also abusive towards her, including on July 10 last year when they beat her with a stick because she refused to go to a religious function. '[The girl] said her mom was hitting her with her shoe so she was fighting back and took the shoe away from her mom to defend herself,' Detective Mullen wrote. 'Haneen was mad that she made her mom cry so she started hitting her with a stick. Nora grabbed her and they were trying to take her phone away. '[The girl] said she went to her room and they took her TV and Xbox away.' Then on September 15 last year, her sisters allegedly attacked her when her boyfriend came to the house and they wouldn't let her outside to see him. Instead they pushed and dragged her upstairs and yelled at her 'as to why she could not take a 'no' for an answer'. She said they tried to get her phone but she hid it, so they locked the doors and windows to her room so she couldn't get outside. Her boyfriend saw the commotion through the windows and yelled at them until neighbors called the police, but officers left when no one answered the door. The girls remained trapped in her room until Ihsan got home and broke her phone in half in a rage after seeing the police outside on security footage. Haneen, 21, is accused of trying to fend off her younger sister's classmates so Zahraa could allegedly choke the girl to death in the 'honor killing'. Haneen has not been charged Ishan's eldest daughter Haneen, 21, and wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, were also involved in the attack. Zahraa was also charged with attempted murder but Haneen is not charged with a crime The girl also detailed her father's alleged threats to kill her for dating an American boy, and refusing an arranged marriage. She said his threats escalated after the September 15 incident and an altercation outside the school between her boyfriend and Zahraa the next day. Ihsan was so furious he pulled her out of school for the weeks until the October 18 attack. 'If I could kill you, I would kill you, but I can't do that. I can't do that because there's cops and CPS people involved right now because of you,' she claimed he said. 'And I can't touch you because you will immediately go to the school.' The girl told police Ihsan another time told her he wanted to 'hurt her so badly but there are cops here' but also told her how he would 'kill her no matter what happens' and he 'did not care if anyone saw him'. '[The girl] said the reason why her father threatened to kill her [was] because she has made 'trouble at home' and he believes she is trying to 'separate the family',' the report alleged. She said one time her dad caught her using a cell phone and dragged her by the hair, which caused her to 'hit the wall' and hurt her knee. The girl said her father had already bought plane tickets for her family fly to Iraq for an arranged marriage. Fearing she would be forced onto the flight or murdered, the teenager fled to Timberline High School the morning of October 18 and met her boyfriend in class. Discovering she was gone, her parents went to the boyfriend's home with the police and demanded to know where she was. The boyfriend's father, Victor Barnes, said he told them he didn't know, but presumed she was at school. Police reports detailed how the girl spent all day with school officials until they found a safe place for her to stay, but did not offer her transport to get there. Instead, the teen and her boyfriend went to the bus stop out the front of the school to wait for a local bus that would take her to the accommodation. Suddenly, just after 2.10pm, Ishan emerged from the truck and confronted them, yelling at his daughter in Arabic. Barnes said his son told him another student, who spoke Arabic, yelled back, 'She doesn't want to go back with you. Leave her alone.' Ihsan allegedly responded by punching the boyfriend, who was standing in front of her, sending him 'flying onto the concrete'. He then allegedly put his daughter in a headlock and tried to choke her to death, saying, 'It's not right… you are not supposed to do this'. Victor Barnes (pictured), the boyfriend's father, explained how the attack unfolded - and the events before it - as told to him by his son The boyfriend and other students said 'her eyes rolled back, and her arms started flailing' before she went limp and unconscious as they tried to save her. Her boyfriend managed to subdue him, along with other students, by repeatedly punching Ishan in the head until he was dazed and let go, prosecutors said. Josh Wagner, who was driving by the school and stopped to break up what he thought was a school fight, then restrained Ishan until police arrived about 2.20pm. Zahraa then allegedly entered the fray and also tried to choke her daughter to death, but was separated by the growing group of kids despite Haneen's attempts to hold them off. The girl told police she fled inside with her boyfriend yelling, 'My dad was trying to kill me' as Zahraa allegedly pursued her to the school doors, but wasn't let in. Police bodycam footage obtain by showed officers arriving at the school and arresting Ihsan, who demanded to speak to his daughter. 'Just let me tell her to come home - not like that. If I tell her to go home, she will go home,' he insisted, but police ignored him. Officers then had to deal with Zahraa and Haneen, who were hysterical and only left after Zahraa was allowed to speak to Ihsan. Police did not realize Zahraa also allegedly tried to kill her daughter until four days later, leaving her free to continue looking for her daughter, who was in hiding. Zahraa drove her youngest children, two boys aged five and three, into Canada and dropped them off with an Ihsan's brother and mother, who lived there. She then returned to Washington before trying to cross into Canada a second time with a 'notable quantity of baggage' on the night of October 22, but was arrested by customs officers. The boyfriend suffered a boxer's fracture as he tried to get Ishan off his girlfriend, and bruises and scratches on his head and face. The girl spent four days in St Peter Hospital for treatment after a strangulation exam, having complained of neck, throat, and jaw pain, and had difficulty swallowing. Hospital staff listed her injuries as including redness and abrasions to her face, head, shoulders, neck, scalp, and under her chin. She also had suffered burst blood vessels in her eyes and an eyelid droop. 'She believes she lost consciousness three to four times during the incident,' court documents alleged, adding that at one point she woke up with dirt pressed into her face. '[The girl] stated that she thought she was going to die.' Barnes explained that his son started dating the girl in February 2024, and her family kept it a secret from her father, who was often out of town running his business. 'He's an abusive man. So they just didn't tell him because... they may think he'll fly off the handle and do something crazy like he did,' he said. Ihsan was not initially charged with attempted murder, and released from jail on October 24 on just a $150,000 bond after a hearing in Thurston County Superior Court before Judge John Skinder. Zahraa faced a different judge - Christopher Lanese - on the same day, but she was charged with attempted murder and held on $500,000 bail. Almost two weeks after his release, on November 5, second-degree attempted murder was finally added to Ihsan's charges. Ihsan was re-arrested and his bail raised to $1 million, which was too much for him to pay. He remains in jail, while Zahraa's bond was unchanged.
Express Tribune
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Express Tribune
K-P universities face severe financial crisis
Public sector universities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa are facing a severe financial crisis, leading to delays in salary and pension payments for employees and retirees. The situation has raised serious concern among academic and administrative staff, many of whom are struggling to cover basic living expenses. The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Universities Coordination Council has urged the provincial government to immediately release funds to address the crisis and ensure the timely disbursement of salaries and pensions. Speaking at a joint press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, council members Dr Noor Muhammad, Prof Dr Qibla Ayaz, Prof Dr Ihsan Ali, former Director IR Prof Dr Muhammad Rauf, and Prof Dr Noor Jehan criticized the government's inaction since the passage of the18th Constitutional Amendment. They noted that despite the devolution of powers to provinces, no meaningful reforms have been implemented in the education sectorparticularly the delayed establishment of a provincial Higher Education Commission (HEC). The speakers pointed out that since 2018, universities have seen no promotions for professors, while financial conditions continue to deteriorate. "Universities across the province are facing a crippling financial crunch. Professors go unpaid, and retired employees are left without pensions," said Prof Dr Ihsan Ali. They revealed that many academic staff and pensioners were unable to buy clothes for their children during Eid due to unpaid dues. "This reflects not only financial mismanagement but also a lack of empathy from those in power," said Dr Noor Muhammad. Council representatives stressed that it is the provincial government's responsibility to ensure timely and uninterrupted payment of pensions and to fund public universities adequately. They added that many employees who retired as far back as 2019 have yet to receive their pensions or other post-retirement benefits. The council demanded the establishment of an independent provincial HEC staffed with qualified education experts to help universities overcome administrative, academic, and financial challenges. They also called for sufficient budgetary allocations in the upcoming fiscal year to prevent the recurrence of such crises. In a significant move, the Peshawar University Teachers Association (PUTA) is organizing an 'Educational Jirga' on May 15. The event will bring together stakeholders from across K-P, including civil society, political leaders, educationists, and journalists. The provincial government has also been invited to participate. "This Jirga aims to propose viable solutions to pull universities out of their current financial crisis and to support the formation of a functional Higher Education Commission in the province," said the council in its concluding remarks.
