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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Riham Alkousaa

Afghan brothers go on trial in Germany for honour killing of sister

Two brothers, suspected of murdering their sister for not submitting to the moral standards of the family coming from Afghanistan, according to the prosecutor, cover their faces at the main hearing, at the higher regional court, in Berlin, Germany, March 2, 2022. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Two Afghan brothers suspected of killing their sister for adopting a Western lifestyle went on trial in Berlin on Wednesday, in a case that highlights the violence against women and cultural tensions among some recent migrants to Germany.

The defendants, identified as Sayed H. and Seyed H. under German privacy laws, are accused of luring their 34 year-old sister to meet them last July in Berlin and choking her and cutting her throat, the Berlin prosecutor's office said.

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