By Sophia Aguilar —
Because she lived in the West, she didn’t want to wear the Muslim-compulsory hijab anymore, so her brothers and father drowned her in lake last year. This is called an “honor killing” in Islam.
Now Dutch prosecutors are demanding the guilty men serve 25 years in prison for accusedly killing their family member, Ryan Al Najjar, who was 18, in a lake near Joure in northern Netherlands. Her body was found about six days after she went missing.
“They saw Ryan as a burden that had to be removed,” the Public Prosecution Service said last week. “Just because she was a young woman who wanted to live her own life.” She refused to wear the head scarf in public.
Specifically, she reportedly posted a TikTok video of herself without a headscarf and wearing makeup. “The video seriously embarrasses the family, according to their posts, as it does not fit within their traditional views,” prosecutors said.
“Once the suspects were aware of the video, they started looking for Ryan,” the authorities added. “According to the Public Prosecution Service, her brothers visited her in Rotterdam and convinced her to come along to a remote location the night before her murder. She was taken to Knardijk, where their father joined. There she was killed.”
The NL Times identified the brothers as Mohamed Al Najjar and Muhanad, and their 53-year-old father as Khaled. All three were charged with murdering the young woman, while their father was accused of orchestrating the killing before likely fleeing to Syria, prosecutors said
Evidence showed signs of strangulation and drowning, and approximately 60 feet of tape had been used to bind her before she was thrown into the water alive. Prosecutors reported that Khaled’s DNA was also found under his daughter’s fingernails, suggesting he was present during the killing.
“[Khaled] fled to Syria immediately after the murder and left his sons to take the blame. Cowardly,” the Public Prosecution Service wrote. “Khaled has completely destroyed his family.”
Dutch authorities added that extraditing Khaled may be difficult because he married a woman in Syria since Al Najjar’s death, the outlet reported.
The court is scheduled to issue its ruling on Jan. 5.
Source: Fox News.
