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Post by housesparrow on Aug 2, 2012 14:51:01 GMT
No verdict yet?
I don't see how the jury could acquit the mother but convict the father. Either the girls saw what happened or they made up the lot, surely?
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Post by jean on Aug 3, 2012 8:09:30 GMT
Or else (her account) the mother really saw the beginning of the attack, but left the room before the end, so only the (very young) children actually witnessed the murder. Her new defence is that she didn't say all this before because she was frightened of her husband.
Whether she changed her story with the collusion of her husband when things started to look bad for the defence so that at least one of them would escape jail, we don't know.
One of the jurors wanted to go on holiday at the weekend, so expect a verdict today.
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Post by jean on Aug 3, 2012 12:16:46 GMT
They've both been found guilty.According to the report on the BBC news, the son Junyad, Mevish and another person in the public gallery who can't be named (that will be the third survivng sister) burst into tears as the verdict was announced. More here.
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Post by riotgrrl on Aug 3, 2012 14:40:19 GMT
Just read the Huffington Post article Jean.
I'm revolted. How DARE people treat young women like this just because they want to live their own lives?
This is not about race or religion; it's about misogny and sexism.
It chills me to my heart to think that there are other young women out there who are being similarly abused and curtailed in the privacy of their own homes. It's bad enough how we label and treat 'bad girls' as a society when they transgress their assigned gendered roles in the world, but at least we do so with a thin veil of 'due process' in courts and prisons.
To kill her on her couch in front of her younger siblings . . . it is just so disgusting and upsetting.
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Post by jean on Aug 3, 2012 23:06:14 GMT
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Post by housesparrow on Aug 5, 2012 7:13:49 GMT
This part was interesting:
Ms Andersen left the UK the same month she had arrived and recalls conversations with Iftikhar in which he said he could leave his son to grow up without his influence because he was a boy.
He said, if they had had a girl, he would not be able to allow her to grow up "without his guidance in the Islamic ways".m
You can read that two ways: either boys can do what they like - they will be okay anyway,
or boys can go to hell so far as I'm concerned to because the family's honour doesn't rest with them.
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