From Fox News: Dutch prosecutors demanded Friday that a Muslim father and his two sons face up to 25 years in prison for allegedly drowning an 18-year-old family member because they believed her “Western” behavior was bringing shame to the family.
The body of Syrian woman Ryan Al Najjar was found submerged in a lake with hands and feet bound tightly on May 28, 2024, near Joure in northern Netherlands, six days after disappearing, according to authorities. Officials arrested her father and two brothers, then aged 22 and 24, and charged them in connection with her killing, which prosecutors said likely happened on May 22.
“They saw Ryan as a burden that had to be removed,” the Public Prosecution Service said Friday. “Just because she was a young woman who wanted to live her own life.”
Authorities said her male relatives, who come from what they described as a “strict” Islamic family, allegedly killed her after believing she was “behaving too Western in the eyes of her family.” Al Najjar was reportedly targeted after refusing to wear a headscarf in public-like settings.
Prosecutors explained on Friday, “The immediate cause of her death appears to be a live video on TikTok, showing Ryan without a headscarf and wearing makeup.”
Once the girl’s family saw the video, her brothers reportedly traveled to Rotterdam to visit her, and convinced her to come along to a remote location. She was then taken to Knardijk, where their father joined them, and she was bound, gagged, strangled and drowned. A passerby found her body in a swamp a few days later.
The brothers were identified as Mohamed Al Najjar, 23, and Muhanad Al Najjar, 25. Their father, Khaled Al Najjar, 53, reportedly fled to Syria, but the two brothers are being prosecuted and are facing 20-year prison sentences. The court is expected to rule on their sentences on January 5.
A teenage girl in the Netherlands was just murdered by her father and brothers after refusing to wear a hijab.
Ryan Al Najjar was just 18 years old.
Her family bound with tape and drowned in a ditch because she wasn’t following a “Muslim lifestyle” and had decided to stop… pic.twitter.com/okdzjwFD5T
— Samantha Smith (@SamanthaTaghoy) November 29, 2025
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‘COWARDLY’: Syrian woman Ryan Al Najjar was found dead in the Netherlands, submerged in a lake with her hands and feet tightly bound, after she was allegedly targeted by her father and brothers for refusing to wear a headscarf in public-like settings.
The alleged suspects face… pic.twitter.com/VG69VLmvTM
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 1, 2025
These Muslims have a “religion“ and a culture that is totally incompatible with western society. And the Muslims are taking over every western nation that they possibly can, including America. We don’t want this year in America! https://t.co/wTJbSRgfUp
— Barbara (@MissZena2009) December 1, 2025
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