A person convicted of murdering his 19-year-old cousin in southern Israel in 2017 was sentenced on Thursday to life in jail, and two different relations, convicted of aiding and abetting her homicide, have been sentenced to 10 years in jail and have been ordered to pay a hefty sum in compensation.
The Be’er Sheva District Courtroom accepted a plea deal reached between the three males and prosecutors within the case, in response to which 24-year-old Mahmad al-Bahiri confessed to the homicide of 19-year-old Hanan al-Bahiri. His father, 47-year-old Younes, and Younes’ brother, 28-year-old Sager, confessed to aiding the crime and can be required to pay 300,000 shekels ($87,000) of compensation to the sufferer’s mom.
Hanan, a resident of the Bedouin city of Lakiya, was kidnapped and murdered by her household after she and her husband divorced. The indictment acknowledged that the boys “feared” she would begin courting once more. They have been additionally accused of breaking Bahiri’s neck, burning her physique and burying the stays close to their residence.
Hanan al-Bahiri, 19, who was murdered in Might 2017. Credit score: Courtesy of the al-Bahiri household
Referring to the notion of so-called honor killings, the judges wrote of their determination that “It is not an honor, however a disgrace that human beings act this manner within the 21st century… A younger lady’s life was sacrificed to an historical, merciless and inhumane custom, solely as a result of she had the braveness to defy what the patriarchal regime dictates, what males dictate.”
Based on the indictment filed, Bahiri was out strolling late at evening on Might three, 2017 in Lakiya within the northern Negev, the place she lived. In a phone name along with her mom, Bahiri stated she was close to the native council constructing on her approach residence, however by no means arrived.
It went on to say that the boys kidnapped her on the trail to her home, took her of their automotive and drove for 40 minutes to one in all their houses as she screamed for assist. After killing her, they eliminated the SIM card from her cellphone, broke it and threw it away so she couldn’t be positioned.
The police looking for the physique of 19-year-old Hanan al-Bahiri within the household compound within the Negev, June 2017. Credit score: Israel Police
The three males have been indicted in 2017 a day after hundreds of people demonstrated round Israel protesting violence towards ladies. Similar protests for the cause have taken place in current months as many in Israeli society imagine not sufficient has been finished to finish such violence.