Soltan Ahmad Azizi was jailed for a minimum of 17 ½ years in 2010 after he strangled Marzieh Rahimi with her veil at the couple’s Hampton Park home in 2007.
The mother-of five was killed in front of the couple's three-month-old toddler and baby, 22 months.
Azizi allegedly admitted killing his wife and even called the police afterwards, telling them, `You can handcuff me now.''
But in calling for an appeal, lawyers for Azizi argued jurors in the original trial were subject to inadmissible or prejudicial evidence.
They claimed alleged statements by Ms Rahimi about previous physical, psychological and emotional abouse by Azizi were not relevant and should have been excluded.
The trial heard Ms Rahimi had complained that her husband had been violent since the first night of their marriage and she wanted a divorce.
It was also claimed Ms Rahimi, 33, had told social workers her husband had branded her a slave with no rights.
The court heard Azizi believed he could dominate his wife and at times had locked her out of their Hampton Park home.
Just days before killing her, he had complained to his sister-in-law in a phone call that his wife was not docile enough and had become ``too Australian''.
The jury was told Azizi told police he didn't plan to kill Ms Rahimi.
He allegedly said he punched her, then ``choked her with her veil''; he then rang 000, telling the operator, ``I killed my wife . . . come see. You come. My kids are only little.''
Azizi pleaded not guilty to murder, with his lawyers claiming he had not intended to kill his wife.
But a jury found him guilty of murder.
In seeking an appeal, lawyers also argued the jury was not left to decide an alternative verdict of defensive homicide, a law intended to shield battered women from murder convictions.
The law carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail; the maximum for murder is life imprisonment.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/tr...s-too-australian/story-fnat7dhc-1226461712029
Ofcom revokes Praise TV licence
Regulator says Destiny Broadcasting misled it during investigation of channel linked to controversial pastor Gilbert Deya
raise TV is broadcast under a licence issued to Destiny Broadcasting Network Europe by the media regulator.
The channel features pastor Gilbert Deya, a self-styled evangelical bishop from Peckham, south London, who claimed to deliver "miracle babies" to infertile women and has faced accusations of child abduction.
After battling against extradition back to his home country of Kenya for several years, Deya lost his legal battle against deportation in September 2011.
Praise TV has in the past aired controversial content, such as promising to cure viewers with serious illnesses by prayer if they offer a donation, however Ofcom has not previously sanctioned the channel.
The TV regulator launched an investigation into the channel after becoming concerned that the licensee was not in fact "the person with general control over which programmes are comprised in the service".
During the course of its investigation, statements made by Destiny Broadcasting "failed to satisfy" Ofcom that it was the one making decisions about which programmes and content would air on Praise TV.
The regulator also said that Destiny Broadcasting provided information that was "false in a material particular or withheld any material information with the intention of causing Ofcom to be misled".
As a result, Ofcom has revoked Destiny Broadcasting's licence to broadcast, as of 15 August.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/28/ofcom-revoke-licence-praise-tv?newsfeed=true
Move To The Back Of The Bus, “Shiksa”: College Student Shouted At, Spit On And Harassed By mentally disturbed Haredim
Ultra-Orthodox men curse and spit at woman travelling on a bus from Ramat Gan to Nes Ziona after she refuses their demand to move to the back of the bus • Egged bus company says driver told them she does not have to move.
The controversy over the exclusion of women in Israel resurfaced on Thursday when Dolev Karazi, a young woman who boarded an Egged bus in Ramat Gan, claimed that ultra-Orthodox men told her to sit at the back of the bus and proceeded to curse and spit at her.
Karazi said she was considering filing a criminal complaint against those behind the assault. In a conversation about the incident with Israel Hayom, she said that she got on the 319 bus after a day at college to head home to Nes Ziona. She sat in one of the front rows near the driver and during the course of the ride, several ultra-Orthodox men boarded the bus as well. According to Karazi, at one of the stops an elderly haredi man got on the bus, noticed her and demanded that the driver force her to move to the back of the bus.
"I was reading a newspaper and the man, a very old man with white hair, began ordering me to go to the back," Karazi said. "He said that according to the Halacha [Jewish law] women must sit at the back and called me a 'shiksa' [a derogatory term for non-Jewish women], 'holera' [literally 'cholera,' or vile] and 'dirty.'"
According to a report by the Israel Religious Action Center released in late Dec. 2011, exclusion of women from the public sphere was dramatically on the rise in Israel during that month. The report cited a 66 percent increase in reported incidents in which women were excluded or discriminated against, where most of the incidents occurred in places such as buses, cemeteries and medical centers.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5628
The mother-of five was killed in front of the couple's three-month-old toddler and baby, 22 months.
Azizi allegedly admitted killing his wife and even called the police afterwards, telling them, `You can handcuff me now.''
But in calling for an appeal, lawyers for Azizi argued jurors in the original trial were subject to inadmissible or prejudicial evidence.
They claimed alleged statements by Ms Rahimi about previous physical, psychological and emotional abouse by Azizi were not relevant and should have been excluded.
The trial heard Ms Rahimi had complained that her husband had been violent since the first night of their marriage and she wanted a divorce.
It was also claimed Ms Rahimi, 33, had told social workers her husband had branded her a slave with no rights.
The court heard Azizi believed he could dominate his wife and at times had locked her out of their Hampton Park home.
Just days before killing her, he had complained to his sister-in-law in a phone call that his wife was not docile enough and had become ``too Australian''.
The jury was told Azizi told police he didn't plan to kill Ms Rahimi.
He allegedly said he punched her, then ``choked her with her veil''; he then rang 000, telling the operator, ``I killed my wife . . . come see. You come. My kids are only little.''
Azizi pleaded not guilty to murder, with his lawyers claiming he had not intended to kill his wife.
But a jury found him guilty of murder.
In seeking an appeal, lawyers also argued the jury was not left to decide an alternative verdict of defensive homicide, a law intended to shield battered women from murder convictions.
The law carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in jail; the maximum for murder is life imprisonment.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/tr...s-too-australian/story-fnat7dhc-1226461712029
Ofcom revokes Praise TV licence
Regulator says Destiny Broadcasting misled it during investigation of channel linked to controversial pastor Gilbert Deya
raise TV is broadcast under a licence issued to Destiny Broadcasting Network Europe by the media regulator.
The channel features pastor Gilbert Deya, a self-styled evangelical bishop from Peckham, south London, who claimed to deliver "miracle babies" to infertile women and has faced accusations of child abduction.
After battling against extradition back to his home country of Kenya for several years, Deya lost his legal battle against deportation in September 2011.
Praise TV has in the past aired controversial content, such as promising to cure viewers with serious illnesses by prayer if they offer a donation, however Ofcom has not previously sanctioned the channel.
The TV regulator launched an investigation into the channel after becoming concerned that the licensee was not in fact "the person with general control over which programmes are comprised in the service".
During the course of its investigation, statements made by Destiny Broadcasting "failed to satisfy" Ofcom that it was the one making decisions about which programmes and content would air on Praise TV.
The regulator also said that Destiny Broadcasting provided information that was "false in a material particular or withheld any material information with the intention of causing Ofcom to be misled".
As a result, Ofcom has revoked Destiny Broadcasting's licence to broadcast, as of 15 August.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/aug/28/ofcom-revoke-licence-praise-tv?newsfeed=true
Move To The Back Of The Bus, “Shiksa”: College Student Shouted At, Spit On And Harassed By mentally disturbed Haredim
Ultra-Orthodox men curse and spit at woman travelling on a bus from Ramat Gan to Nes Ziona after she refuses their demand to move to the back of the bus • Egged bus company says driver told them she does not have to move.
The controversy over the exclusion of women in Israel resurfaced on Thursday when Dolev Karazi, a young woman who boarded an Egged bus in Ramat Gan, claimed that ultra-Orthodox men told her to sit at the back of the bus and proceeded to curse and spit at her.
Karazi said she was considering filing a criminal complaint against those behind the assault. In a conversation about the incident with Israel Hayom, she said that she got on the 319 bus after a day at college to head home to Nes Ziona. She sat in one of the front rows near the driver and during the course of the ride, several ultra-Orthodox men boarded the bus as well. According to Karazi, at one of the stops an elderly haredi man got on the bus, noticed her and demanded that the driver force her to move to the back of the bus.
"I was reading a newspaper and the man, a very old man with white hair, began ordering me to go to the back," Karazi said. "He said that according to the Halacha [Jewish law] women must sit at the back and called me a 'shiksa' [a derogatory term for non-Jewish women], 'holera' [literally 'cholera,' or vile] and 'dirty.'"
According to a report by the Israel Religious Action Center released in late Dec. 2011, exclusion of women from the public sphere was dramatically on the rise in Israel during that month. The report cited a 66 percent increase in reported incidents in which women were excluded or discriminated against, where most of the incidents occurred in places such as buses, cemeteries and medical centers.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=5628
