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Belgium: Brothers arrested in suspected honour killing

(Belgium) Brothers arrested in suspected honour killing
— Gulf Times reports: “Two Pakistani brothers were being held in custody in Belgium on murder charges,  a magistrate said in Brussels yesterday, on suspicion that they carried out an honour killing”
— “Hammad Raza Syed and his brother Hassan were charged with ‘deprivation of liberty and murder’ over the death of Hammad’s wife Claudi Lalembaidje, a 32-year-old Belgian woman of Chadian origin.”
— “The woman’s beaten body was found on June 29 in a suitcase in a canal in northern France. A funeral service  was held for her in Brussels yesterday.”
— “The dead woman was in the process of divorcing Syed. Her family claimed he had beaten her and wanted to  control what she wore and how she conducted her life. She went to police twice insisting he had tried to strangle her.”