In Karachay-Cherkessia, two brothers found guilty of killing sister

In the murder case of the 19 year-old girl in Karachay-Cherkessia, her two elder brothers were found guilty; they were sentenced to 13 and 9 years of imprisonment in a high security colony, the Republic's Supreme Court has reported.

"The court has established that in September 2006, in the aul of Ikon-Khulk, Eduard Abazov offered his cousin Rakhmet Djemakulov to kill his sister Abazova, because of his personal hostile attitude to her for her allegedly immoral way of life. His motive was in his sister's dissipation, which dishonoured the family," said Alibek Botashev, the press secretary of the court.

According to his story, the brothers took the sister to the outskirts of the aul; they were assisted by the victim's second brother; however, the organizer of the murder told his that he just wanted to talk to their sister for educational purposes. Abazov knifed his sister for 18 times and kicked her head for about 15 times. The girl died in place from these injuries, says the website of the Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia.

At the trial, the defendants Djemakulov and Abazov refused to plead guilty of murdering their sisters, said Botashev.

This crime, committed in Karachay-Cherkessia, is not unique. Killings under the motive of "immorality" occurred in the neighbouring republics as well.

Thus, the double murder of Musaev sisters - Jamila, 15, and Milana, 19, - was committed on June 27 in the village of Borozdinovskaya, Shelkovskoy District of Chechnya. Their father, Ruslan Musaev, 48, on the following day surrendered to law enforcers. According to his story, his elder daughter had been killed by her sister, and he accidentally shot the younger daughter dead. One of the versions of the investigation was the so-called "honour killing" - a sort of a lynching, committed by relatives.

In November 2008, Chechnya saw several murders of young women. Later, the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov said that the casualties had been engaged in prostitution and were killed by their relatives for their immoral behaviour.

The bodies of three women with stab wounds were found on December 20, 2010, in the village of Ali-Yurt, Ingushetia. The casualties were identified as Madina Ozdoeva, 42, and her daughters Zarema, 20, and Fatima, 18. Law enforcers detained Tarkhan Ozdoev, 24, a resident of Ingushetia and Madina's cousin. According to power agents, he confessed of the crime and said that he was holding an "educational conversation" with his relatives on the topic of their immoral behaviour.