Father Hires Hitmen Over Daughter’s Mini-Skirts

An immigrant in Russia’s northern city of Saint Petersburg has been charged with hiring hit men to kill his 21-year-old daughter for wearing mini-skirts, police said today. Police detained Gafar Kerimov, 46, after he reported that his daughter went missing and then confessed that she was already dead. His arrest followed the detention of two of the hired killers last week. “They admitted to being paid 100,000 rubles ($4140) by the girl’s father. They said he wanted to punish his daughter for flouting national traditions and wearing a mini-skirt,” a police source said. Rashida Kirimova, 21, studied medicine at a St. Petersburg school. Her clothing and behaviour were the source of frequent family arguments. She dismissed her father’s criticism when he said her clothes were unfit for a Muslim girl. The girl was abducted on the street on March 8, taken to the outskirts of Saint Petersburg and then shot twice in the head