They killed the girl because she did not want to marry her cousin, the Italian court sentences the parents and the uncle

2023-12-20 11:34:15Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

They killed the girl because she did not want to marry her cousin, the Italian

The parents and uncle of an 18-year-old Pakistani woman were convicted of her murder in Italy after she refused her family's demands to marry a cousin in their homeland.

Saman Abbas' body was found in November 2022 on an abandoned farm near the fields where her father worked in northern Italy, a year and a half after she was last seen alive on video, walking alongside her parents. her. Italian prosecutors argued that she was killed by her family on May 1, 2021. A few days later, her parents flew from Milan to Pakistan.

On Tuesday, parents Shabbar Abbas and Nazia Shaheen were sentenced to life in prison, while her uncle Danish Hasnain was sentenced to 14 years in prison by a court in Reggio Emilia. The two cousins ​​were found not guilty and ordered to be released from prison. Shabbar Abbas, who was extradited from Pakistan in August, declared his innocence during a tearful statement in court before the hearings. His wife was tried in absentia and is believed to be in Pakistan.

An autopsy revealed that the young woman had a broken neck bone, possibly caused by strangulation. She had immigrated as a teenager from Pakistan to a farming town, Novellara, in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. In Italy she stopped wearing the headscarf and started dating a young man of her own accord.

In a social media post, she and her Pakistani boyfriend were shown kissing on a street in the regional capital, Bologna. According to Italian investigators, that kiss enraged Abbas' parents, who wanted her to marry a cousin in Pakistan.

Abbas reportedly told her boyfriend that she feared for her life because of her refusal to marry an older man in her hometown.


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