Parents and uncle convicted of "honor killing" Pakistani teen in Italy for refusing arranged marriage
CBSN
A court in northern Italy convicted the parents and an uncle of an 18-year-old Pakistani woman for her murder in Italy after she refused her family's demands to marry a cousin in their homeland.
Saman Abbas' body was dug up in November 2022 in an abandoned farmhouse near the fields where her father worked in northern Italy, a year and a half after she was last seen alive on surveillance video walking near the same fields with per parents. Italian prosecutors argued that she was killed by her family on May 1, 2021. A few days later, her parents flew from Milan to Pakistan.
The parents, Shabbar Abbas and Nazia Shaheen, were sentenced to life in prison, while her uncle, Danish Hasnain, was handed a 14-year prison term by a court in Reggio Emilia. Hasnain was detained under a European arrest warrant in France in Sept. 2021, the BBC reported.
