Rana Husseini; 9/10/08
The criminal prosecutor on Wednesday charged a 25-year-old man with the premeditated murder of his father in the Jordan Valley a day earlier, official sources said. The suspect, a farmer, turned himself in to the police and reportedly confessed to murdering his father at dawn on Tuesday to prevent him from killing his sister, one official source told The Jordan Times. “The victim, who was released recently from prison as part of an amnesty before the Eid holiday, had been jailed for almost seven years for killing two of his daughters in so-called honour crimes,” the source told The Jordan Times. The suspect also told interrogators that he “killed his 65-year-old father because both his teenage sisters who were murdered were innocent of any wrongdoing”.
See: http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=11211
Tags: Honour Killing, Jordan