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Pakistani couple jailed for daughter’s ‘honour killing’

A Pakistani couple who migrated to Italy with their children have been given life sentences for the so-called honour killing of their 18-year-old daughter after she refused an arranged marriage and started dating.

Saman Abbas’s strangled body was found buried in farmland near her parents’ house in Novellara in northern Italy after she had resisted pressure to marry a cousin in Pakistan, reported her father to the police for beating her, and attempted suicide.

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