Article: Abu Tir indicted for niece's murder

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Headline: Abu Tir indicted for niece's murder Byline: ETGAR LEFKOVITS Edition; Daily Section: News Page: 04

Tuesday, January 14, 2003 -- Majid Abu Tir, 23, who confessed to strangling his five-year-old niece, Nur, to death last month was charged with murder in Jerusalem District Court on Monday and his remand was extended for 16 days.

Attorney Ibrahim Abu Ghosh, who represents Abu Tir, said in court that his client would plead innocent, insisting that his two previous acknowledgments of guilt were forced.

The indictment against Abu Tir was filed a month after Nur's body was found in a bag deep inside a drainage pit just meters from her home in the east Jerusalem ...

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