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Mohammad Shafia

Shafia Verdict Prompts Organizations To Ask, What Now?

The Huffington Post Canada | Arti Patel | Posted 04.05.2012 | Canada Living

The aftermath of the Shafia trial has left violence prevention organizations wondering, 'what now?' Centres providing resources and services for women...

Inside Story: How They Were Caught

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.30.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - When the call first came in on the morning of June 30, 2009, about a car in the locks at Ontario's Kingston Mills, police thought the...

Uniquely Canadian Snafu May Have Affected Case

Posted 01.30.2012 | Canada

MONTREAL - There is word that a uniquely Canadian bureaucratic snafu occurred as the Shafia girls were seeking help from authorities three years ago. ...

Shafia Family To Keep Their Fortune

CP | Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.31.2012 | Canada

OTTAWA - In the weeks before he helped kill his sisters and his father's first wife, someone had used Hamed Shafia's laptop for an online search.That ...

What The Shafia Trial Means For Canada's Muslims

CP | Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.30.2012 | Canada

TORONTO - The Shafia murder trial has cast a shadow over Canada's Islamic community, further tarnishing an image that has not yet recovered from the e...

Shafia Daughters 'Committed Treason' Father Said

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.30.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - Two days before Mohammad Shafia was arrested for the murder of his three daughters and one of his two wives, he went on a vitriolic r...

A Timeline Of Murder

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.30.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A jury has found three members of an Afghanistan-born Montreal family guilty of four counts each of first-degree murder.Mohammad Shaf...

Honour Killing Verdict: Guilty

CP | Posted 01.30.2012 | Canada

UPDATE: Canada's Muslim Community have responded to the Shafia trial verdict. While many Muslim community leaders have decried the violence and deaths...

Shafia Trial: Just The Facts

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.28.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A jury in eastern Ontario starts its first full day of deliberations Saturday to decide the fate of three people accused of killing f...

What The Jury Didn't Hear

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.29.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A jury considering the case of three people accused of killing half of their family over honour absorbed mountains of evidence over a...

Shafia Accused Saw Deceased As 'Diseased Limb' Says Crown

CBC | Posted 01.29.2012 | Canada

Three Montrealers accused of drowning four Shafia family members in Kingston, Ont., viewed the deceased as the "diseased limb on the fami...

Shafia Trial Defence Presents Case On Deaths Of Four

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.26.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - There are simply too many unknowns to be able to convict a Montreal couple of four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of the...

Shafia Trial Closing Arguments Next Week

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.18.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - All of the evidence has now been heard in a trial of three people accused of killing half of their family over honour, and next week ...

Accused's Brother Testifies

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.18.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - Honour is very important to a man accused of killing half of his family, allegedly in a so-called honour killing, but Mohammad Shafia...

Shafia Mother Spars With Crown Lawyer

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.18.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A mom charged with killing her three daughters turned the tables on the prosecutor in her case Monday, accusing him of having an over...

Husband Asked For Help To Kill Daughters

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.13.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - Three teenage sisters and their father's first wife were already dead when the car their bodies were in plunged into a canal, a prose...

Wife Admits To Lying To Police

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.13.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A woman accused of killing her three daughters and her husband's other wife agrees with the attorney prosecuting her on one thing: sh...

Tooba Yahya Reveals What Caused Husband's Anger

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.11.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A woman accused of killing her three daughters and her husband's other wife over family honour indicated Wednesday she believes her e...

Trying To Protect Her Son

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.11.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A courtroom in eastern Ontario was witness to dramatic legal theatre Tuesday, as a woman accused in a so-called quadruple honour kill...

Shafia Trial Resumes

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.11.2012 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A woman accused of killing her three daughters and her husband's other wife suggested Monday that one daughter tried to commit suicid...

Shafia Son Manipulating Authority Figures, Says Crown

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.15.2011 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - After a lengthy and withering cross-examination during which he was accused of conspiring with his family to fabricate alibis, a surv...

Crown: Son Lied In Honour-Killing Testimony

CP | Allison Jones, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.15.2011 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A surviving child of a Montreal couple accused of killing three of their daughters has lied to and manipulated authority figures in t...

Canadian Muslims Condemn Honour Killing

CP | Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.08.2012 | Canada

TORONTO - Violence against women has no place in a religion that proclaims equal rights for males and females, Canada's Muslim leaders say.Ongoing pub...

Honour-Killing Trial To Hear From Dead Wife's Relative

CBC | Posted 01.29.2012 | Canada

The sister of Rona Amir Mohammad, one of four women found inside a submerged car in a Kingston, Ont., canal, testified Tuesday she didn...

Dad Breaks Down At Honour-Killing Trial

CP | Colin Perkel, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.01.2011 | Canada

KINGSTON, Ont. - A terrified woman begged for secrecy about her abusive living conditions out of fear her husband would kill her and his three teenage...