Brooklyn Residents Ask Obama to Free Hassan Razzaq, 'Abused' Teen Who Killed His Dad

Members of Brooklyn’s Razzaq family and their supporters are asking U.S. President Barack Obama that the family’s eldest son, 19-year-old Hassan Razzaq, be pardoned for killing his 56-year-old father, Mohammad.

Razzaq has not denied stabbing his father to death on July 18 inside their home, located on East 3rd Street in the Kensington neighborhood.

However, those closest to Razzaq say his outburst was a natural reaction to years of physical, mental and sexual abuse.

In a petition to the president posted on Change.org, Razzaq’s ”good friend” and Brooklyn resident Benine Hamdan writes that ”over many years, during High School, he would come home every day awaiting the creative manners of abuse inflicted by his 56-year-old father.”

“Hassan suffered excruciating pain and abuse from his father set forth in different forms, such as forcing his head into the toilet, banging his head against closet doors and inserting his fingers up his behind. Hassan was not only physically abused, but also mentally and sexually abused. He would witness his sisters being pulled by the hair across the apartment floor, and he always thought that things will soon change.”

As of this writing, the petition has almost 1,000 signatories.

“His case should be considered a form of self-defense, built up anger over so many years that has resulted in this tragedy,” says Hamdan.

More than 70 of the teen’s supporters showed up at the Brooklyn federal courthouse last week for his first appearance in court since he killed his father.

A reporter for the New York Daily News, who was also in attendance, wrote that ”all, including his heartbroken mother and siblings, wore ’#FreeHassanRazzaq’ T-shirts with a black and white photograph of him.”

The Daily News described the day of the stabbing.

The father unexpectedly returned from a failed business trip in Pakistan and took it out on five of his six children.

During the father’s hours-long assault, he grabbed his 15-year-old daughter by the hair and dragged her across the floor “because she was wearing shorts and he asked her if she wanted boys to have sex with you.”

Mohammad Razzaq is also alleged to have threatened his 20-year-old daughter, saying, ”I can cut you up your body, put you in a suitcase and dump you somewhere no one could find you.”

Police reportedly caught Razzaq “with blood all over his hands” two blocks from the crime scene.

He was charged with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon — charges that his supporters hope will be dropped.

Razzaq will be back in court on Friday.