NY court begins trial of Pak-American TV executive accused of beheading wife

2011-01-19

A New York court has started hearing the case of a Pakistani-origin television executive charged with beheading his wife after she filed for diverse [sic].

Opening statements in the second-degree murder trial of Muzzammil Hassan began yesterday in Erie County Court in Buffalo, New York.

The Pakistani-born couple had reportedly set up a pro-Muslim television channel, Bridges TV, in the United States to counter the negative impression about Islam following 9/11 terror attacks.

Forty-six-year-old Hassan is accused of stabbing and beheading Aasiya Hassan, 37, inside the channel's studio in 2009. the rest