Jury finds Afghan family in honor killings
A jury found the father Sunday in Afghanistan, his wife and son convicted of murdering three teenage sisters and co-wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded murder embarrassment" arising from the concept " twisted honor "If Canada is shocked and surprised.
Prosecutors said the defendants allegedly killed three teenage sisters because their families refused to oppose the rule of discipline in dress, dating, social and Internet use.
The jury took 15 hours to get Mohammad Shafi, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42, and his son Hamed, 21, scored all four guilty of first degree murder. The First-degree murder sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole for 25 years automatically.
Jury finds Afghan family in honor killings
After the verdict, the three defendants declared his innocence in the murder of Sister Zainab back, 19 Sahar 17, and Geeti, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammed, 52, wife Shafia children for the first time in a polygamous marriage.
Argued that the prosecution for murder premeditated, organized to look like an accident after the do. Prosecutors said the defendants were victims of flooding in other parts of the site, put your body in the car and pushed into the canal.
Jury finds Afghan family in honor killings
Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert Marange said the evidence clearly supports the conviction. In a statement after the verdict, refers to the Canadian Justice Minister Rob Nicholson to the practice of honor kills "barbaric and unacceptable in Canada."
Defense lawyers said the death was accidental. They said that Nissan intentionally jumped into the canal after the eldest daughter, Zainab, he took pleasure trip with his father's sisters and his first wife. Hamed said he witnessed the accident, although not call the police on the scene.
After the jury returned the verdict, Mohammad Shafi, speaking through an interpreter, said: "We are not criminals, we are not murderers, without the murder and not fair." Jury finds Afghan family in honor killings.
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A jury found the father Sunday in Afghanistan, his wife and son convicted of murdering three teenage sisters and co-wife in what the judge described as "cold-blooded murder embarrassment" arising from the concept " twisted honor "If Canada is shocked and surprised.
Prosecutors said the defendants allegedly killed three teenage sisters because their families refused to oppose the rule of discipline in dress, dating, social and Internet use.
The jury took 15 hours to get Mohammad Shafi, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42, and his son Hamed, 21, scored all four guilty of first degree murder. The First-degree murder sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of parole for 25 years automatically.
Jury finds Afghan family in honor killings
After the verdict, the three defendants declared his innocence in the murder of Sister Zainab back, 19 Sahar 17, and Geeti, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammed, 52, wife Shafia children for the first time in a polygamous marriage.
Argued that the prosecution for murder premeditated, organized to look like an accident after the do. Prosecutors said the defendants were victims of flooding in other parts of the site, put your body in the car and pushed into the canal.
Jury finds Afghan family in honor killings
Ontario Superior Court Judge Robert Marange said the evidence clearly supports the conviction. In a statement after the verdict, refers to the Canadian Justice Minister Rob Nicholson to the practice of honor kills "barbaric and unacceptable in Canada."
Defense lawyers said the death was accidental. They said that Nissan intentionally jumped into the canal after the eldest daughter, Zainab, he took pleasure trip with his father's sisters and his first wife. Hamed said he witnessed the accident, although not call the police on the scene.
After the jury returned the verdict, Mohammad Shafi, speaking through an interpreter, said: "We are not criminals, we are not murderers, without the murder and not fair." Jury finds Afghan family in honor killings.
