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Danish Court Convicts Nine In 'honour Killing'
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Danish court convicts nine in 'honour killing'
Updated Tue. Jun. 27 2006 10:32 AM ET

Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- Nine people were convicted Tuesday of murder or being an accessory to murder in the killing of a 19-year-old woman gunned down by her older brother two days after her wedding because her Pakistani family disapproved of her husband.

The 12-member jury returned guilty verdicts against the nine, all family members and friends, in the slaying of Ghazala Khan. Sentencing was expected later this week.

Khan was shot and killed Sept. 23 in Slagelse, 100 kilometres west of Copenhagen. Her husband was shot twice in the stomach but survived.

In testimony during the trial, Khan's older brother, Akthar Abbas, admitted to shooting the couple as they tried to flee to a train station, but he claimed he acted in self-defence because his brother-in-law, Emal Khan, had allegedly kicked him.

Akthar Abbas was found guilty of murder. His father, Ghulum Abbas, was found guilty of incitement to murder and masterminding the killing. Both face the maximum sentence of life imprisonment, automatically commuted to 16 years under Danish law.

Seven other people, including three of Khan's uncles, an aunt and a family friend, were found guilty of being accessories to murder. Prosecutors alleged Ghulum Abbas had his son and other family members track down the daughter and her new husband and kill them. Ghulum Abbas pleaded not guilty.

The trial, which began in May, has highlighted disparate views on marriage between some immigrants and Danes in this country of 5.4 million. An estimated 200,000 Muslims live in Denmark.

"In some parts of the immigrant community, there are still some differences in understanding love marriages and cultural backgrounds and traditions,'' said Torben Ruberg Rasmussen, a professor with the University of Southern Denmark's Centre for Middle East Studies.

Abdul Wahid Petersen, a leading imam in Denmark, said Danish Muslims did not regard the honour killing as "their case.''

"To us, it is not a religious case, it is a criminal case,'' Petersen told The Associated Press before the verdict was delivered. "But it is obvious that in many people's minds, it will be connected to Islam.''

Manu Sareen, a counsellor for young people facing arranged marriages in Denmark, believes the outcome would send a "strong signal'' and show that Danish authorities takes honour killings seriously.

"It will have a preventive effect,'' Sareen said. "Some families may abandon similar plans because of today's ruling.''

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Good for them especially after all the troubles the Danes were in after exercising freedom of the press earlier this year.
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2001 ZTS,Jun 27 2006, 09:07 PM Wrote:Good for them especially after all the troubles the Danes were in after exercising freedom of the press earlier this year.
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I totally agree with you there andrew, really it's people like this that do this that really are truely idiots, and yes the Dane's legal system did a good job in this case.
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Frost__2001,Jun 27 2006, 08:37 PM Wrote:
2001 ZTS,Jun 27 2006, 09:07 PM Wrote:Good for them especially after all the troubles the Danes were in after exercising freedom of the press earlier this year.
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I totally agree with you there andrew, really it's people like this that do this that really are truely idiots, and yes the Dane's legal system did a good job in this case.
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I think the idea of honour killing/maiming of women because of the misinteruptation by some of a book to be one of the most disgusting "ideals" ever.

According to some of them a girl in one of those cultures could be raped and still killed out of honour (or burnt alive or doused with acid to purpously scar) or any retribution at all her family could imagine; that is sub-human behaviour in my mind. Then there is the whole "female circumscision" thing which is also repulsive.
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Frost__2001,Jun 27 2006, 09:37 PM Wrote:
2001 ZTS,Jun 27 2006, 09:07 PM Wrote:Good for them especially after all the troubles the Danes were in after exercising freedom of the press earlier this year.
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I totally agree with you there andrew, really it's people like this that do this that really are truely idiots, and yes the Dane's legal system did a good job in this case.
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Although I agree with both sentiments, I'm a little disappointed that the maximum jail term is 16 years.

I may be old fashioned, but to me a "life" sentence means you end your days in jail. If that crime was only worth 16 years then so be it ... but why call it "life?"

And yes ... I have the same problem with our system here. For the most part I don't agree with capital punishment, but it seems to me that killing someone the way they did in this case certainly justifies a true life sentence.
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Whatever happened to "an eye for an eye"?
It would work so much better that way!
All these little gangsters walking around the streets stabbing people.. killing people.. Rapists.. I'm sure it would be a better deterrent knowing that if you were to stab this guy in the gut, it's going to happen to you, rather than the slap on the wrist they get now....
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