A German court on Thursday sentenced two Afghan brothers to life in prison for murdering their sister because they disapproved of her “modern” lifestyle.
The victim, a 34-year-old mother of two identified as Maryam H., was found buried on a hill in Germany’s southern Bavaria region several weeks after going missing from her Berlin home in July 2021.
For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.
Train station security footage showed her brothers, Yousuf and Mahdi H., boarding a train from Berlin to Bavaria around the time Maryam H. went missing, dragging a heavy suitcase believed to have contained her body.
She was found with tape covering her hands, feet, mouth and nose, and experts told the district court in Berlin that she had been choked to death before her throat was slit.
Judge Thomas Gross said the two men, both in their 20s, had killed the woman “because she was increasingly pulling away from the controlling influence of the brothers.”
Prosecutors said the brothers had objected to their sister’s “partially modern lifestyle” and had tried to forbid her from having a new relationship after she separated from her Afghan husband.
Defense lawyers argued that Yousuf had accidentally killed his sister during an argument, and that Mahdi H. should walk free, claims that were rejected by the court.
Read more:
Nonbinary former Biden official accused of theft released without bail
Taliban aid group donates $50,000 in plastic bag to Turkey earthquake victims
Fresh US restrictions against Taliban for bans on women’s rights
Also Read
-
Germany has evidence of war crimes in Ukraine ‘in three-digit range’: Prosecutor
Germany has collected evidence of war crimes in Ukraine, the country’s prosecutor general said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, adding ... World News -
Iran hiring crime gangs to assassinate dissidents in UK, West, officials say: Report
Officials believe that Iran is hiring criminal gangs to kill dissidents abroad. Middle East -
China, Iran urge Afghanistan to end restrictions on women’s work, education
China and Iran have urged mutual neighbor Afghanistan to end restrictions on women’s work and education.The call came in a joint statement Thursday ... Middle East -
ISIS threatening to attack China, India, Iran embassies in Afghanistan: UN
ISIS militants have threatened to target the embassies of China, India, and Iran in Afghanistan in an effort to isolate the Taliban from a handful of ... World News
