Honor Killing Family Goes on Trial in Denmark
Charles Johnson
Tue May 16, 2006 at 7:54 pm PDT • Views: 368
Nine Pakistanis stand trial in Danish ‘honour killing’. (Hat tip: Baldy.)
COPENHAGEN: Nine Pakistanis living in Denmark went on trial on Monday accused of participating in the so-called honour killing of an 18-year-old woman who had married without parental consent.
Ghazala Khan’s brother shot her dead by firing two bullets into her heart in September 2005, outside Slagelse train station, west of Copenhagen. The prosecution has qualified the murder as an honour killing, the ninth to have taken place in Denmark over the last decade.
The victim’s husband, whom she had secretly wed, was seriously injured in the attack thought to have been carried out in the belief that her marriage had tarnished the family’s honour. Six members of the murdered 18-year-old’s family, including her father and three family friends, were charged with murder and attempted murder.
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