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Egypt welcomes sentence for murder of "martyr of the veil"
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 11 - 11 - 2009


Egypt on Wednesday welcomed a Dresden court"s
decision to sentence a man to life in prison for murdering an
Egyptian woman, praising it as serving justice, reported the dpa.
"The application of the most severe criminal penalty in German law
serves justice and should be a deterrent to those motivated by hate
and malice," Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said in
a statement.
"Egyptian-German relations are based on good cooperation in
various areas," he said. "They are too strong to be affected by a
crime of this sort."
Aleksandr Wiens, a German of Russian origin, was sentenced to life
imprisonment without the chance of early parole, for stabbing to
death Marwa el-Shirbini during a court hearing in July.
El-Shirbini, who was pregnant with her second child, had brought
charges against Wiens after he verbally abused her at a playground,
apparently because she was wearing a Muslim headscarf.
Her murder outraged many in the Arab world"s most populous
country. More than 1,000 people attended El-Shirbini"s funeral in her
native Alexandria.
Wiens" trial was front-page news in Egypt, where newspapers dubbed
her as "the martyr of the veil."
Zaki appealed to Arab and international media to report the case
responsibly, "so as not to affect the feelings and conditions of the
millions of Arabs and Muslims who live in Western countries."
On the streets of Cairo, where the law provides for the death
penalty, reaction to Wednesday"s verdict was mixed.
"This was an utterly heinous crime. Life in prison is too little,"
said Hanan Mohammed Mostafa, a 54-year old nurse. "He should have
been executed. He took an innocent woman"s life. Marwa"s only "crime"
was being a Muslim."
Osama Tharwat, a 23-year old cook, agreed. "This was a disgraceful
crime. He should have been executed, especially considering that he
took her unborn baby"s life as well."
But Ahmed Said, 20, took a softer view. "This was the correct
verdict. The punishment fits the crime, 100 per cent," he said.
--SPA


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