The Pakistani prosecutor’s office announced on Sunday that it had issued an appeal to the supreme court against the acquittal of Muhammad Waseeml, convicted of the murder of his sister and influencer Qandeel Baloch, a murder that he had justified in the “intolerable” behavior of the young woman in networks social.
Baloch, nicknamed the Kim Kardashian of Pakistan, was strangled to death in 2016.
The man, who told local media he had no remorse for the murder, had initially been sentenced to life in prison. But after six years, Waseem was released on a legal loophole that allows the victim’s mother to condone the crime.
The case was considered the highest-profile “honor killing” in recent years. The expression alludes to the murders of women at the hands of male relatives for supposedly “shaming” a family with their behaviour.
Pakistan passed a law in 2016 mandating life sentences for honor killings, theoretically closing the loophole that allowed victims’ families to condone the crime.
But Waseem, 38, was acquitted after a judge ruled the crime was not an honor killing and thus, under Pakistan’s other laws on murder, opened up the possibility of a family pardon.
“We have contested his acquittal, which was granted for mere assumptions and technical reasons,” he told the newspaper on Sunday. AFP state prosecutor Khurram Khan. The appeal was filed on Friday, Khan added, but the high court has yet to set a hearing date. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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