The father and brother of a 16-year-old girl pleaded guilty in a Toronto courthouse to her 2007 murder for disobeying him, including refusing to wear a hijab, a court official said.
Toronto taxi-driver Mohammed Parvez, 60, and tow-truck driver Waqas Parvez, 29, pleaded guilty to the murder of Aqsa Parvez in late 2007, and are to be sentenced to life in prison. They must serve at least 18 years in prison before being eligible for parole, an Ontario superior court official said.
According to a statement of agreed facts, Aqsa was estranged from her family when her brother picked her up from a school bus stop in a Toronto suburb and took her home on December 10, 2007. There, her father strangled her to death.
“I killed my daughter,” he told a 911 operator, said court documents. Paramedics found her lying dead in her bed, blood running from her nose.
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US Indian prof’s killer indicted for killing kin
Boston : An Alabama University professor, who had shot and killed an Indian-American colleague in February, has now been indicted on first-degree murder charges in the shooting of her brother in Massachusetts 24 years ago.
Amy Bishop has been charged with murder for the 1986 shotgun slaying of her 18-year-old brother Seth Bishop. “The grand jury has indicted Amy Bishop for murder in the first degree,” Norfolk district attorney William R. Keating said.
“Here in Massachusetts, we had evidence of a murder. We proceeded with that, as we should have”. The Boston Globe said Seth’s killing was declared an accident by authorities at the time. —PTI
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50,000 rally against Israel school ruling
Jerusalem : Around 50,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews on Thursday rallied in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, the police said, in a show of mass defiance over a school integration ruling by Israel’s highest court.
“There are 30,000 in Jerusalem and 20,000 in Bnei Brak,” near Tel Aviv, spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.
“Streets in the immediate vicinity of the demonstrations are closed to traffic.”
Thousands of policemen were on high alert as protesters rallied against a Supreme Court ruling to jail a group of parents of European origin, or Ashkenazis, who are refusing to send their daughters to a school with Jewish girls of West Asian descent, or Sephardis.
—AFP