PAKISTANI MAN ON TRIAL FOR KILLING HIS DAUGHTER on "Honor" Killing

  

ROME (AP) —

 Italian police on Thursday took into custody in Pakistan a Pakistani man who is on trial in Italy for the murder of his daughter after she refused family demands to marry a cousin in their homeland.

The court case, in Reggio Emilia, northern Italy, is the most high-profile of several criminal investigations in Italy in recent years dealing with the slaying or mistreatment of immigrant women or girls who rebelled against family insistence that they marry someone chosen for them.

Saman Abbas’ body was dug up in November 2022 in an abandoned farmhouse near the fields where her father worked in northern Italy. Italian prosecutors contend the 18-year-old woman was murdered by her family on May 1, 2021. A few days later, her parents flew from Milan to Pakistan.

Abbas’ uncle, two cousins, her father, Shabbir Abbas, and her mother went on trial in February 2023. Both her parents were being tried in absentia. The mother’s whereabouts are unknown but she is believed to be in Pakistan, according to Italian authorities.

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