(AP) An Italian appeals court Friday upheld life sentences for a Pakistani couple convicted of murdering their 18-year-old daughter in a so-called honor killing after she refused an arranged marriage. The case shocked many Italians and became a symbol of the brutal […]
(Reuters) An Italian court sentenced two parents to lifetime imprisonment on Tuesday for killing their teenage daughter after she refused to travel to Pakistan for an arranged marriage. The so-called honour killing of 18-year-old Saman Abbas, who went missing in April 2021, […]
(AP) Italian police on Thursday took into custody in Pakistan a Pakistani man who is on trial in Italy for the murder of his daughter after she refused family demands to marry a cousin in their homeland. The court case, in Reggio […]
(AP) The uncle of an 18-year-old woman who disappeared months ago in Italy after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan was detained Wednesday on the outskirts of Paris, according to Italian authorities who fear the teenager may be dead. Saman Abbas was […]
(ANSA) Investigators on Wednesday continued the search for the body of Saman Abbas while her cousin, one of the family members suspected of involvement in the alleged murder of the 18-year-old for refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan, was handed over to […]
(ANSA) An 18-year-old Pakistani girl who has been missing from a town near Reggio Emilia since the end of April after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan had a violent argument with her family the night before she disappeared, according to an […]
(ANSA) The Union of Italy’s Islamic Communities (UCOII) on Wednesday issued a fatwah (ban) on arranged marriages after the case of an 18-year-old Pakistani girl who is missing and believed killed by her family after refusing to marry a man her parents […]
(ANSA) A male cousin of an 18-year-old Pakistani woman who went missing from a town near Reggio Emilia after refusing an arranged marriage in Pakistan was arrested in France at the weekend. The man, who was reportedly gearing to flee to Spain […]
(AFP) Police in Italy are searching for the body of an 18-year-old girl suspected to have been killed by her Pakistani family after refusing an arranged Muslim marriage. The girl’s parents, an uncle and two cousins are under investigation for murder, lieutenant […]
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