Iraq Court Reduces Jail Sentence For Christian Teenager
Iraqi Christians worship in volatile Baghdad. BAGHDAD, IRAQ (BosNewsLife)-- An Iraqi Christian teenager remained behind bars Friday, July 27, but a court reduced her sentence for killing her uncle, BosNewsLife monitored.
Compass Direct News, a Christian news agency, said Iraq’s Kurdish regional high court reduced jail time for Asya Ahmad Muhammad, who allegedly fatally stabbed her uncle as he beat her for converting to Christianity and “shaming” the family by working in public.
After reviewing the case for more than two months, the court in Erbil on April 30 upheld an earlier decision by Dohuk’s juvenile court that she was guilty of killing her uncle, though "she acted in defense of herself and others," the news agency said.
Clearing her of an original conviction for "premeditated murder", the court reduced the 15-year-old girl’s sentence from five to three-and-a-half years.
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