Dutch court convicts 4 family members for fatally stabbing woman in front of her daughter in alleged "honor killing"
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A Dutch court on Thursday sentenced four men to 25 years for the "honor killing" of a woman stabbed to death in broad daylight in front of her three-year-old daughter.
The 28-year-old Roshin was stabbed 28 times by her elder brother as she walked with her daughter in the eastern Dutch city of Apeldoorn in September 2023.
"A more gruesome end to a human life is hard to imagine. Her daughter saw her mother killed in a very violent way," according to the court verdict.
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