Tiba al-Ali, 22, reportedly left her family to live by herself in Turkey after her brother sexually assaulted her.
A YouTube star has been killed by her own father in a so called «honor» killing, sparking outrage across Iraq.
Tiba al-Ali, 22, was killed by her father on 31 January in the southern province of Diwaniya, interior ministry spokesperson Saad Maan said on Twitter on Friday.
Police had attempted to mediate between Ali – who lived in Turkey and was visiting Iraq – and her relatives to «resolve the family dispute in a definitive manner», Maan said.
Ali’s father was reported to have been unhappy about her decision to live alone in Turkey. Maan said that after the police’s initial encounter with the family «we were surprised the next day … with the news of her killing at the hands of her father, as he admitted in his initial confessions.»
Ali had gained a following on YouTube, where she posted videos of her daily life and in which her fiancé often appeared.
