http://www.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_9706000/9706514.stm

They all came from Pakistan as young brides, had their passports taken away and were often locked up, not even allowed to learn English.

They suffered in silence, cut off from the outside world. They were treated as virtual slaves, doing all the housework, and none of them understood what they had done to deserve such treatment.

Qawal had freedom in Pakistan but that all changed when she came to England and was beaten not only by her husband but his mother as well.

"My mother-in-law hit me in the face so hard that blood poured from my ear," she told me ...

 "They kept me a prisoner in the house. Once I was locked in the upstairs bedroom for 13 days," said Qawal.

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Qawal finally escaped, barefoot in the snow, and ended up in the refuge.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17319136

Two-thirds of young British Asians agree that families should live according to the concept of "honour", a poll for BBC Panorama suggests.

Of 500 young Asians questioned, 18% also felt that certain behaviour by women that could affect her family's honour justified physical punishment.

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Experts interviewed by the programme argue that the root cause of "honour" crime lies in forced marriage.

Jasvinder Sanghera, a campaigner on behalf of Asian women, fled her parents' home after they attempted to force her into an arranged marriage when she was just 14.

She said it was time for Britain's Asian community leaders to speak out about the honour code, also known as "Izzat" in Urdu.

"I've yet to see community leaders, religious leaders, politicians, Asian councillors give real leadership on this. They don't because they know it makes them unpopular."

Ms Sanghera said the reluctance of community figures to speak out was "extremely irresponsible, it's morally wrong and it's morally blind".

A survey of police forces by the Iranian and Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation (IKWRO) found there were 2,823 incidences of honour crimes a year, or almost eight a day. But those figures are considered a vast underestimate given that 13 of 52 police forces did not respond to the charity's request for a breakdown in November 2011.