Nourig apple

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Nourig Apfeld (* 1972 in Aleppo , Syria ) is a German author .

Life

At the age of seven, Nourig Apfeld moved with her family from Syria to Germany, who applied for asylum here . She grew up with four younger siblings in Bonn - Bad Godesberg and graduated from high school in Bonn. She then married a German and began studying medicine.

Apfeld lives in a major German city and studies psychology.

process

She became known in public as the main witness in the honor killing trial of her younger sister Waffa, who was killed in 1993. Fearing the perpetrators, she only filed charges eleven years after the 2004 honor killing against the cousin she believed to be primarily responsible. Despite her ultimately unsuccessful efforts to get into a witness protection program , she testified in court. Instead, she receives personal protection on a case-by-case basis . In 2008 her father and two of her cousins ​​were tried. In it, the father took all the blame and was sentenced to eight years in prison for manslaughter, while one cousin was acquitted for lack of evidence and the other fled.

On September 17, 2010, Rowohlt Verlag published her book I am a witness to the murder of my sister.

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Sources and individual references

  1. ↑ a b c Information on Nourig Apfeld at Rowohlt , accessed on May 21, 2018
  2. ↑ a b c Constanze von Bullion: Witness of honor. Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 17, 2010, accessed on September 22, 2010
  3. ↑ a b Cigdem Akyol: An honor killing. Frankfurter Rundschau , September 20, 2010, accessed on September 23, 2010
  4. ↑ Markus C. Schulte von Drach : Victims of Fear sueddeutsche.de , September 24, 2010
  5. ↑ Freia Peters: The witness of an honor killing finally unpacks. Welt online, September 18, 2010, accessed on September 22, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Apple, Nourig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Aleppo , Syria