Non-lethal strangulation: Do women even know it’s a red flag that their lives are at risk?
The murder of aspiring doctor Armina Hayat has put non-lethal strangulation in the spotlight again.
A few months before she was murdered by her husband, Armina Hayat had called a friend in the early hours of the morning wanting to know if they could take her in.
When she arrived, she had bruises around her throat, cheek, left wrist, arm and thigh, as well as finger and thumb marks on her neck.
She later revealed that her husband had put his hands around her neck, rendering her unconscious.
Her relationship with Meraj Zafar had been violently toxic from the beginning, but did she know just how much danger she was in, that her life was at risk?
