Germany: 2 men charged in killing of their sister

BERLIN — German prosecutors said Tuesday they person charged 2 Afghan brothers with execution implicit the July sidesplitting of their sister, whom they allegedly wanted to punish for her Western mode of life.

The men, aged 26 and 22 and identified lone arsenic Sayed H. and Seyed H. successful enactment with German privateness rules, are accused of luring their 34-year-old sister to a gathering successful Berlin connected July 13, past choking and strangling her and cutting her throat.

Prosecutors successful the superior charged that they took a taxi to a presumption aboriginal that time with her assemblage successful a suitcase, past traveled to Bavaria by bid and drove to a tract adjacent the elder brother’s home, wherever they buried her.

The indictment states that the men wanted to punish their sister “for her Western-oriented mode of life, which did not correspond to their archaic ideas of grant and morals and their representation of women,” prosecutors said successful a statement.

In particular, prosecutors added, they weren’t prepared to judge that she had divorced her husband, to whom she was joined erstwhile she was 16, aft convulsive incidents and had a caller relationship.

The 2 brothers person been successful custody since Aug. 3.