An Iraqi woman has been accused of beating her teenage daughter and padlocking her to a bed after she was seen speaking to a young man

After Yusra Farhan was arrested in the Arizona hospital where her daughter was being treated for her injuries, she told police that she wanted to punish the girl for violating her culture. Farhan, 50, faces charges of aggravated assault, unlawful imprisonment and resisting arrest. She was being held in a Maricopa County jail. Police did not identify her daughter by name. The incident started when the daughter was spotted by her father talking to a 19-year-old man at a high school parking lot in Phoenix. Police said that her father became angry and took her home, striking her several times. The mother arrived home later and admitted to hitting her daughter with her hands and a shoe, and tying her to the bed with a rope around her waist that was secured with a padlock, court records showed. Farhan told police that she hit her daughter because she was speaking to a male subject and her Iraq culture states that a female is not allowed to be having contact with males because females are not allowed to have boyfriends, court records said. The arrest follows another high-profile case involving an Iraqi immigrant. In April 2011, an Arizona judge sentenced Faleh Hassan Almaleki to 34 and a half years in prison for murdering his daughter in what was described as an honor killing. Almaleki struck and killed his 20-year-old daughter Noor with his vehicle in a Phoenix valley parking lot in 2009 for becoming too Westernised and violating what he said were Iraqi and Muslim values. He also injured her boyfriend's mother before fleeing the scene.