AFP
Saint Petersburg, Apr 16: An Azeri immigrant in Russia’s city of Saint Petersburg has been charged with hiring hitmen to kill his 21-year-old daughter for wearing a miniskirt, police said on Monday.
The man’s arrest follows the detention last week of two other citizens of Azerbaijan, a majority Muslim state, who confessed to murdering the girl, a university medical student. “They admitted to being paid £2,000 by the girl’s father.
They said he wanted to punish his daughter for flouting national traditions and wearing a miniskirt,” a police source said.
The girl was abducted 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 since the fall of the Soviet Union, both within its Russian and Muslim communities.