An Honor Killer and His Accomplices Finally Face Justice
by Phyllis Chesler
IPT News
January 26, 2021
I will never forget that New Year's Day in 2008, when Egyptian-born taxi driver Yaser Said coldly shot his two beautiful daughters to death in his cab. Their names were Sarah and Amina, and they had bravely tried to save their own lives – but their mother, Tissy (Patricia), had lured them back home to be murdered.
She has never been charged, although her husband, son and brother-in-law are all behind bars.
At the time, I spoke to some of the women in Tissy's family, who confirmed that Yaser Said had routinely battered, sexually violated, and threatened his daughters with death. His wife covered this up, minimized and denied it, and forced the girls to recant what they had once told child welfare officials.
Their brother Islam pleaded guilty last week to three felonies related to helping his fugitive father evade capture. Islam Said also stalked and threatened his sisters. He was following his father's explicit orders as well as the example he set.
https://www.investigativeproject.org/8711/an-honor-killer-and-his-accomplices-finally-face
