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Article: Abu Tir indicted for niece's murder
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- Jerusalem Post
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- January 14, 2003
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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 ...