BERLIN—A court in Germany convicted two Afghan men Thursday of killing their 34-year-old elder sister because they didn’t agree with her lifestyle.
The Berlin regional court found the men, aged 28 and 24, guilty of murder for killing the mother of two in July 2021. Her body was later found in a suitcase buried near where the older brother lived in Bavaria.
Judges sentenced the men to life imprisonment.
The victim, who was divorced, had tried to start a new relationship that her brothers disagreed with.
During the trial the older brother, Sayed Yousuf H., had claimed his sister Maryam H.’s death was an accident and his younger brother hadn’t been involved. Lawyers for the younger brother, Seyed Mahdi H., had sought their client’s acquittal….