Aneesa Abbas and Arooj Abbas were 24 and 20 years old and lived in Terrasa, Spain.
Two relatives accused of Femicide, two Pakistani sisters living in Spain, confessed it. They were killed for “honor”After a young woman asks her cousin for a divorce “Trap” visit to Pakistan.
His maternal uncle, Muhammed Hanif, and his brother, Sheria Abbas, strangled their 20- and 24-year-old sisters on Friday, 20th.Aneesa Abbas and Arooj AbbasConfirmed police sources in charge of the investigation in Pakistan.
“Muhmed Hanif and Sheria confessed to being honor killed. Young woman wanted to marry another person in Spain“One of the police officers in charge of the investigation, Aktar Hussein, told Efe.
A young woman from the village of Nassia near Gujrat in Punjab, eastern Pakistan, married her cousin over a year ago and is now trying to convince her family to help her move. Spain.
Hussein said the young woman had reached an engagement or “Nika”. This is essentially a Muslim wedding and returned to Pakistan last Thursday.
Six men were arrested for the crimes of two sisters. (Photo of Punjab Police)
His relatives Sisters intervened for cousin in front of Spanish authoritiesThe sisters divorced after the marriage of the arrangement and wanted to “marry another person in Spain”.
“They were killed after the two sisters refused to change their decision and opposed supporting the husband’s migration to Spain,” police said.
Hussein points out that the sisters had a residence permit in Spain like their father, and the mother is in an Asian country.
Both lived in the city of Terrassa, CataloniaHis father is working and a rally was held in front of the city hall this Tuesday showing Femicide’s refusal.
Police arrested six suspected murder relatives last Sunday, and a Pakistani court yesterday ordered five days of preventive detention for the accused.
“Young girls are not things”
What is known as Honor killings are common in South Asia and often involve men in the family. Let them come with what they think is an unethical insult to the conservative family of the local community.
“I’m disappointed that my brother and his cousin killed them in honor,” an activist and former director of the National Commission for Women’s status told Efe. Khawar Mumtaz
Activists asserted that the Pakistani state is a party to the proceedings against relatives and therefore the family cannot forgive the accused.So he wants justice to be done.
“Young girls are humans, not things, and should be treated that way,” Mumuters recalled.
According to data from the NGO Human Rights Commission on Human Rights (HRCP) in Pakistan Last year there were 478 honor killings domestic. Between 2004 and May 2018, the number increased to 17,628, but it is believed that the actual number could be much higher, especially with respect to relatives, as there are no complaints.
Pakistani government approved in 2016 A law prohibiting the amnesty of relatives of victims of this type of crimeA legal hole, where many men were freed after killing a woman, usually a sister or wife.
EFE
Source: Clarin
