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Honour killing justified “because he was provoked”
by Scott Gilbreath ~ May 8th, 2009
Hasibullah Sadiqi is on trial in Ottawa for shooting to death his sister and her fiancé in 2006. His defence seeks to establish offended honour as a mitigating factor in a murder case.
The Crown contends there will be evidence that the slaying was an honour killing rooted in anger over their engagement, while Sadiqi’s defence lawyers do not deny that Sadiqi is responsible for the deaths, but are expected to advance the argument of provocation, which could reduce a murder charge to manslaughter if certain conditions are met.
In effect, prosecution and defence agree that it was an honour killing. They disagree over the legal ramifications of his allegedly offended “honour”.
Sadiqi, a Canadian of Afghan descent, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder. The court is expected to hear he was upset because his sister got engaged without the permission of their father and had moved in with Mangal’s family, [assistant Crown attorney Mark ] Moors told the five-woman, seven-man jury.
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The defence will not dispute the fact that Sadiqi was responsible for the killings. Natasha Calvinho, one of Sadiqi’s lawyers, told the jury that the case centres on the classification of the homicides.“It’s not a whodunnit so much as a ‘why did he do it?’ ” she said.
The killer has managed to hire a woman to defend him. She’s a useful idiot. Doesn’t she realise that, if her argument is successful, women gunned down by “offended” men would be viewed as blameworthy for their own deaths? So much for women’s liberation.
The defendant’s notion of “honour” is foreign to civilised society and, if sanity prevails, will be repudiated by Canadian courts.
h/t: Vlad Tepes
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