Rome – An Italian Court of Appeals on Friday sentences of life imprisonment for a Pakistani couple condemned for killing their 18 -year -old daughter in a so -called honor murder after she rejected a arranged marriage. He Surprised case to many Ital Ians and became a symbol of the brutal mistreatment of immigrant women who rebel against inflexible family rules.
The Court of Appeals in the city of Northern Bologna said that Saman Abbas, whose body was found on a farm in 2022, 18 months after it disappeared, was killed with the participation of the whole family.
The court trusted a life imprisonment for the adolescent’s father, Shabbir Abbas, and his mother, Nazia Shaheen. He also sentenced two cousins to life imprisonment who had been previously authorized by a lower court.
Saman’s uncle, Danish Hasnain, was also sentenced to 22 years in prison for his participation in murder. He had previously given him a 14 -year sentence.
The judicial case, in Reggio Emilia in northern Italy, became The highest profile of several criminal investigations in Italy in recent years deals with the murder or abuse of immigrant women or girls who rebelled against their family. Insistence that they marry someone chosen for them.
The so -called honor murders are common in Pakistan, where family members and family members sometimes kill women who do not follow local traditions and culture or decide to marry someone from their own choice.
Saman Abbas’ body was unearthed in November 2022 in an abandoned farm near the fields where his father worked in northern Italy. Italian prosecutors argue that the woman was killed by her family on May 1, 2021. A few days later, her parents flew from Milan to Pakistan.
Saman Abbas’ father was later arrested in Pakistan and extradited to Italy by prosecution. His mother was convicted in the absence, but was arrested in May last year after three years in the race.
Abbas’s uncle, two cousins, his father and his mother went to trial first in February 2023. All defendants have denied irregularities.
Saman Abbas had emigrated when he was a teenager from Pakistan to the agricultural city of Novellara in the northern region of Italy of Emilia-Romagna. He quickly hugged Western forms, even spilling on his head and going out with a young man from his choice. In a publication on social networks, she and her paquistani boyfriend were shown kisses on a street in the regional capital, Bologna.
According to Italian researchers, that kiss angered Abbas’ parents, who wanted him to marry a cousin in Pakistan.
The young woman was last seen alive on April 30, 2021 a few hundred meters (yards) from where her video body was discovered from the surveillance camera while walking with her parents on the watermelon farm where her father worked.
According to reports, Abbas had told her boyfriend who feared for her life due to her refusal to marry an older man in her homeland.
An autopsy revealed a broken neck bone, possibly caused by strangulation.
In 2019, Italy made an Italian or resident citizen in marriage, even abroad, a crime covered by the laws of domestic violence.
After the disappearance of Abbas, the Union of Islamic communities in Italy issued a religious ruling that rejected forced marriages.
