Posted on 08/02/2006 11:04:05 AM PDT by Republicain
Sweden’s Supreme Court said on Wednesday it was not going to take up the case of the 18-year-old man convicted of killing 20-year-old Abbas Rezai in an alleged honour killing.
An appeals court confirmed the original sentence of four years in a secure youth detention unit, followed by deportation. The man wanted the country’s high court to rule against his eventual deportation to Afghanistan.
Rezai had a relationship with the 16-year old sister of the convicted man. The prosecution argued that this was why he was killed, calling it an honour killing, and said that other members of the family had participated in the murder.
During the attack, Rezai was scalded with hot oil, hit with a variety of objects and repeatedly stabbed in the back and chest. Most of the stab wounds were sustained after death. He was also almost entirely scalped and one of his fingers had been partially chopped off.
The 18-year-old, whose family is originally from Afghanistan, said that he alone was responsible for the killing, claiming that it followed an argument between him and Rezai that had spiraled out of control at the family's apartment in Högsby, southern Sweden.
Rezai was found dead in the family's apartment in November last year. The family had disappeared to relatives in Denmark, although they later turned back and handed themselves over to police.
The 18-year-old turned himself in because he knew that, as a youth, he would face a slap-on-the-wrist, instead of a real, big-boy punishment.
Sweden has always been known for very short sentences, even for murder.
At least in this case it appears they didn't kill his sister.
Michael Skakel, honor killer of Martha Moxley, could keep justice from being done for YEARS, while his crime went officially "unsolved". Actually, the persons who knew what took place, knew all the facts long ago, but the information was suppressed because of the family's standing in the community.
Curious how much this would resemble the application of "shar'ia law".
So Swedes don't value life as much as normal people?
Four years? Nice to know they take crime and punishment so seriously in Europe...
I think it's more a case where Sweden—and for the most part, the rest of Europe—values the lives of criminals far more than it values the lives of victims. That's the only logical explanation I've been able to come up with...
These concepts of "honor" is nothing Europe of today will put up with in the long end.
Barbarianism has been successfully dealt with in the past and it it won't be given another chance.
H*ll it wont.
Long live Sweden, Europe and the USA!
Until I start seeing signs of civilization begin to emerge from Europe again, I'm afraid I'll have to remain hopelessly pessimistic about Europe's future...
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