of tv boss charged over wife's beheading

TV boss charged over wife's beheading: Muzzammil Hassan, founder and CEO of Bridges TV, has been arrested and charged with murdering his wife by beheading her.


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Muzzammil Hassan, founder and CEO of Buffalo, NY-based Bridges TV which launched in 2004 with a mission to show Muslims in a more positive light, was charged after reporting the death of his wife, Aasiya Hassan, 37, on Thursday night.

After Hassan, 44, told police his wife was at the Bridges TV offices, in the village of Orchard Park, they found her body there, beheaded, The Buffalo News reported. Authorities said Aasiya Hassan, with whom Hassan had two children, had recently filed for divorce and had an order of protection mandating that he leave their home as of February 6. He was being held in a county detention center charged with second-degree murder.

Read more at Buffalo News ("Muslim influence speculated in slaying")

The gruesome death of Orchard Park resident Aasiya Zubair Hassan— who was found decapitated—and the arrest of her estranged husband are drawing widespread attention, as speculation roils about the role that the couple’s religion may have played.