Pakistani couple get life in Italy for killing daughter
Pakistani couple get life in Italy for killing daughter
ROME: A Pakistani couple was sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court on Tuesday for the 2021 murder of their daughter after she refused an arranged marriage.
Saman Abbas, 18, was living in Novellara, near Bologna, when she disappeared in May 2021, having rejected the previous year her family’s demand that she marry a cousin in Pakistan.
A tribunal in Reggio Emilia, central Italy, ruled that the parents ordered the murder, and that an uncle had strangled his niece.
The uncle was sentenced to 14 years after accepting a plea bargain, while two cousins were acquitted in an affair which shocked the country.
Saman Abbas had denounced her parents to the police and social workers placed her in a shelter in Nov 2020.
But she visited her family in April 2021, planning to pick up her passport and start a new life with her boyfriend, whom her family disapproved of.
She disappeared soon after, and police, alerted by the boyfriend, raided the family home in May but the parents had already left for Pakistan.
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