Mother accused of killing her 18-year-old daughter for refusing an arranged marriage

Shaheen and her husband, Shabbar Abbas, murdered their daughter Saman Abbas in Italy in 2021 and both were sentenced to life imprisonment in December of last year.

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Although the father was found in Pakistan and later extradited to Italy in September 2023the mother was missing in her native country.

“The extradition process has already started, after which she will be sent to Italy following the procedure,” said the Pakistani investigation agency official.

In a case that shocked Italian society, Saman Abbas disappeared from his parents’ house in Novellara in April 2021, when he returned to collect his documentation after spending several months in housing protected by social services.

The young woman had reported that her parents wanted to marry her against her will to a cousin of hers, older than her. The Italian prosecutor’s office accused her parents of handing her over to her uncle, Danish Hasnain, so that he could murder her and hide her body. Hasnain was arrested and sentenced to 14 years in prison for his role in the murder.
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The only family member left in Novellara was Salman’s 16-year-old brother, who was transferred to a protected center and who, according to Italian media, revealed to the agents that His sister was murdered for refusing to marry the cousin with whom they had “arranged” her marriage. and to prevent him from leaving home, as he did months ago, the first time they proposed it to him.

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Arranged marriages are common in conservative Pakistan, where hundreds of women are murdered each year in so-called ‘honor crimes’ for opposing these unions.