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Shafia case prompts mixed reactions
While experts in so-called honour killings herald the verdict as a clear message from Canada's courts, at least one Muslim women's group is worried the handling of the case may have done more harm than good in public opinion.
Updated: 01/30/2012 02:22A
'I'm feeling great today', lead Shafia cop
escape his lips as he departed the room where guilty verdicts had just been delivered against all three members of a Montreal family accused in the quadruple murder of four family members. A 12-person jury Sunday found Mohammad Shafia, Tooba Mohammad
Updated: 01/29/2012 10:35P
Were Shafia murders 'honour killings' or domestic violence?
Semantics aside, most say the Superior Court's guilty verdict was the right one. “This verdict sends a very clear message about our Canadian values and the core principles in a free and democratic society that all Canadians enjoy and even visitors to
Updated: 01/29/2012 10:28P
Shafia verdict prompts debate: honour killing, or just plain murder?
Experts in so-called honour killings — murders carried out to preserve family honour in the face of perceived disgrace — heralded the verdict as a step forward; a clear message that neither Canada's courts nor its people will tolerate this type of
Updated: 01/29/2012 10:05P
Freed of hurting Dr M
Family members and supporters rejoice with People's Progressive Party vice-president Datuk Nik Sapeia Nik Yusof following the verdict. By Sulaiman Jaafar The High Court here yesterday allowed the appeal of businessman Datuk Nik Sapeia Nik Yusof who had
Updated: 01/29/2012 10:03P
Canada: Afghan family guilty in honour killings
Prosecutors said the defendants allegedly killed the three teenage sisters because they dishonoured the family by defying its disciplinarian rules on dress, dating, socialising and using the Internet. The jury took 15 hours to find Mohammad Shafia, 58;
Updated: 01/29/2012 09:51P
Will guilty verdict in Canadian 'honor killing' trial be a turning point for
On January 29, after a ten-week trial and fifteen hours of deliberations, a seven woman, five man jury returned with a verdict of guilty to first degree murder for all three Afghan-Canadians who were charged in the pre-meditated murder of four female
Updated: 01/29/2012 09:47P
Afghan Family, Led by Father Who Called Daughters a Disgrace, Guilty of Murder
The verdict concluded a complex, three-month trial in which prosecutors described the crimes as “honor killings.” The defendants — Mohammad Shafia, 58; Tooba Yahya, 42; and their son Hamed, 21 — and the victims belonged to a family of Afghans who had
Updated: 01/29/2012 09:42P
KWES NewsWest 9 / Midland, Odessa, Big Spring, TX: newswest9.com | Jury finds
After the verdict was read, the three defendants again declared their innocence in the killings of sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, Shafia's childless first wife in a polygamous marriage.
Updated: 01/29/2012 09:14P
Shafia verdict prompts debate: Was it an honour killing, or just plain murder?
Experts in so-called honour killings — murders carried out to preserve family honour in the face of perceived disgrace — heralded the verdict as a step forward; a clear message that neither Canada's courts nor its people will not tolerate this type of
Updated: 01/29/2012 09:12P
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