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Will guilty verdict in Canadian 'honor killing' trial be a turning point for justice?by Phyllis Chesler http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1067/honor-killing-guilty-verdict
Excerpt: 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 members of the polygamous Shafia family. The convicted are each facing 25 years without parole. Mohammed Shafia, 58, Tooba Yahya, 42 (his second wife), and Hamed, 21, their son, were found guilty of conspiring to and of having murdered Mohammed's first wife, Rona Mohammed Amir, 50, and Tooba Yahya's three daughters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, because they refused to wear hijab, wore Western, sometimes "sexy" clothing, dared to have boyfriends, and, in their father's words, "dishonored" and "betrayed" both "their family and Islam." Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Honor Killings | ||||||
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