BREAKING: Shafia family guilty of "honor killings" of four relatives
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Three Afghan-Canadians charged with murdering four relatives in a so-called "honour killing" have been convicted on all charges.The verdict was reached shortly after 1 pm Sunday afternoon and delivered about an hour later to a packed courtroom. In all, the seven-woman, five-man jury had deliberated just over 15 hours, spread over two days, sequestered on the second floor of the historic Frontenac County Court House in downtown Kingston.‬
‪The defendants face an automatic penalty of life imprisonment with no chance of parole for at least 25 years.
‪ ‬Rarely does a murder trial garner the attention that this one did, the chief reason being that in the history of Canada, and probably every other Western country, it was unique.‬
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It was also expensive. A police source directly involved in the case estimated the final tab will run into millions of dollars.‬
The trial began Oct. 20.
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There have been other murder charges involving so-called "honour killings" - homicides of women slain out of a perverse desire to "purify" families of disgrace created by supposedly immoral conduct.‬
‪ But not on this scale. And not involving parents who were willing to wipe out half their family for the sake of their honour, and then lie about it.‬
‪ Charged with four counts of first-degree murder were businessman Mohammad Shafia, 59, his second wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 42, and their eldest son, Hamed, 21.‬
‪They stood accused of drowning sisters Zainab, Sahar and Geeti Shafia, aged 19, 17 and 13, whose bodies were found in a submerged car at a Rideau Canal lock, just east of Kingston, in June, 2009.‬
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The fourth person in the vehicle was Mr. Shafia’s first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, 53, who had entered Canada illegally, posing as his cousin, but who in fact was part of a polygamous marriage and who by every indication wanted to escape from it.
The 10-member family - one husband, two wives, seven children who were all Ms. Yahya's progeny - settled in Montreal in 2007 after fleeing Taliban-ruled Afghanistan in 1992 and spending years in Pakistan, Australia and Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.
What linked the four victims, co-prosecutor Laurie Lacelle told the jury in her closing arguments, was their “desperate” shared desire to break away from the constraints of the oppressive Shafia household, ruled with a rod of iron by Mr. Shafia, the ill-tempered, often violent family patriarch.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to what the prosecution contends was a carefully planned but clumsily executed quadruple murder, disguised as an accident, committed chiefly to cleanse the Shafia name and reputation of shame brought about by the victims’ rebellious conduct, particularly Zainab’s and Sahar’s interest in boys and dating.
In its final weeks, the trial drew big crowds, often lining up well ahead of time for a spot in the 150-seat courtroom.
Among the regulars was Kingston resident Barb Jagger, 52, who for a couple of weeks shared a cell with Ms. Yahya in the segregation block of Quinte Detention Centre, west of Kingston.
She recalls her cellmate as quiet, pleasant and evidently deeply religious. She would pray five times a day, Ms. Jagger said, and often read the Koran.
Ms. Yahya denied murdering anybody, Ms. Jagger said
"She looked me in the eyes, she had tears streaming down her face, and she said to me: 'Barb, I didn't bring seven children into this world just to kill them.' "[/quote]
"Sickening" is really the only word that comes to mind when I read this. (The killings, not the conviction.)
Take that, scum.
Why did this take so long to get a verdict? It doesn't matter what religion you are, killing is always wrong
Shafia rhymes with Sharia.
Honour killings are the stupidest things ever.
So they literally take honor in killing relatives. Seems odd.
It's the old "I have a valid reason to do stupid shit"-thing.
Now can we hang them please? It's been like 50 years.
[QUOTE=sami-elite;34449412]So they literally take honor in killing relatives. Seems odd.[/QUOTE]
Oh you know, just the religion that keeps on giving ... Err, taking!
[QUOTE=ManningQB18;34448944]Why did this take so long to get a verdict? It doesn't matter what religion you are, killing is always wrong[/QUOTE]
What? The case only came to a close a day or so ago. How fast do you want them to rule?
[QUOTE=sami-elite;34449412]So they literally take honor in killing relatives. Seems odd.[/QUOTE]
It's supposed to be about "restoring family honour" or some shit like that.
[QUOTE=sami-elite;34449412]So they literally take honor in killing relatives. Seems odd.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much. It's meant to occur when someone 'dishonors' the family, so in retaliation and also to restore the 'lost honor' the offender is killed. It basically never happens to males.
fucking backwards shitheads
[QUOTE=SatansSin;34449543]Oh you know, just the religion that keeps on giving ... Err, taking![/QUOTE]
This is cultural, hardly anything to do with Islam itself.
[QUOTE=sami-elite;34449412]So they literally take honor in killing relatives. Seems odd.[/QUOTE]
"Our daughter married someone who is poor. We can't allow this to happen."
The dishonor of being jailed on international news outweighs the honor of killing a relative.
[quote]to cleanse the Shafia name and reputation of shame brought about by the victims’ rebellious conduct, particularly Zainab’s and Sahar’s interest in boys and dating.[/quote]
You mean that adolescent females were interested in dating? Get THE FUCK out.
nvm
So now that the justice system has worked as intended can we have the racist idiots stop running around talking about all those "special rights" Muslims get and how minorities have free reign to commit all the crimes they want?
lol of course we can't have that
[QUOTE=Kinversulath;34451343]What? The case only came to a close a day or so ago. How fast do you want them to rule?
It's supposed to be about "restoring family honour" or some shit like that.[/QUOTE]
I think the term they used is "they had a bad branch on the tree, and wanted to trim it back to the good bark"
I don't get the point of 'honor killing' in the western world, it's not honorable at all here.
It makes everyone hate you and you get locked in a concrete box for 25 years.
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