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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has published new guidance for its lawyers to help tackle “honour”-based abuse, with spiritual and immigration abuse included for the first…

“I’m always looking over my shoulder. I’m never going to let my guard down,” Bekhal Mahmod said.For two decades she has been in hiding, living under…

Ministers are introducing a clearer legal definition of “honour”-based abuse in an attempt to catch more perpetrators and protect women and girls from violence and coercion.The…