Yazidi man accused of honour killing in Germany arrested in Iraq
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(15 Oct 2018) Iraqi Kurdish police forces said on Sunday that they had arrested a Yazidi man accused of killing his cousin in Germany after she refused to marry him. Lieutenant Colonel Hayman Suliman of the Dohuk police department told The Associated Press that police arrested 24-year-old Sefin Nouman Biso on Friday in Rizgary, in the Dohuk governorate of Iraq. Biso is being sought by German authorities and Interpol on suspicion of killing 21-year-old Shilan Ghazi Biso in front of guests at a wedding in Hanover, Germany, in 2016. Since 2003, thousands of Yazidis have sought asylum in Europe and Turkey to escape Iraq's sectarian violence. The Islamic State group killed and enslaved thousands of followers of the minority sect from 2014 to 2017, at the height of its territorial extent. Suliman said Biso was being held in Dohuk prison, awaiting a court decision. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/457c8aff356b2a39ba685430b075ce29
