Russian 'hired hit man to kill daughter over miniskirt', police say

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Russian 'hired hit man to kill daughter over miniskirt', police say

An Azeri immigrant in Russia's northern city of Saint Petersburg has been charged with hiring hit men to kill his 21-year-old daughter for wearing a miniskirt, police said on Monday.

Last Updated: 3:21PM BST 13 Apr 2009

The man's arrest follows the detention last week of two other citizens of Azerbaijan, a majority Muslim state in the Caucasus, who confessed to murdering the girl, a university medical student.

"They admitted to being paid 100,000 rubles (£2,000) by the girl's father. They said he wanted to punish his daughter for flouting national traditions and wearing a mini-skirt," a police source told AFP.

The girl was abducted on the street in Russia's second city on March 8, taken to the outskirts of Saint Petersburg and then shot twice in the head, the source said.Russia has experienced a revival of conservative religious tradition ince the fall of the Soviet Union, both within its Russian Orthodox and large Muslim communities.

The Saint Petersburg mosque - the largest and northernmost in Europe when it was built in 1913 - now counts mostly migrants from ex-Soviet Azerbaijan among its worshippers.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...police-say.html

[mawilson 2,133]

Yeah, Muslims are the same everywhere.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

That's just weird.

[Peikko 1,575]

I am sure there is a lot more to the story than that.