Major events in the trial of the couple accused of murdering their three daughters and a woman in an "honour killing".
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The three Shafias are found guilty of first-degree murder. After hearing the verdict, Mohammad Shafia said: “We are not murderers.”
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Judge Robert Maranger reads his final address to jury from a 240-page document. The 12 jurors can find each accused guilty of first- or second-degree murder, or they can find them not guilty.
Courthouse bomb threat stalls Shafia trial
Thu, Jan 26: An apparent bomb threat forces the evacuation of the courthouse in Kingston, Ontario, just before the Crown was set to continue its closing arguments at the Shafia family murder trial. Mike Armstrong reports.
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The Crown’s closing arguments were delayed after a bomb threat halted the trial for three hours. Prosecutor Laurie Lacelle outlined a complex conspiracy: “The evidence is that Shafia, Tooba and Hamed had decided that there was a diseased limb on their family tree. Their decision was to remove the diseased limb in its entirety and trim the tree back to the good wood.”
Closing arguments heard at Shafia trial
Tue, Jan 24: The so-called honour killing trial of the Shafia family is winding down. Mike Armstrong reports from Kingston, Ontario.
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The defence begin their closing arguments. They call for acquittal, claiming the drowning deaths were accidental.
Judge Robert Maranger announces that Hamed Shafia will be the only one of the three accused not to take the stand in his defence.
Tooba Mohammad Yahya confessed she lied to police when interrogated. “I was under a lot of pressure. Whatever I told him, that was all lies,” she said. She said she feared her son Hamed was going to be tortured in cold water.
Canada: Mom Admits Lying in Shafia Family 'Honor Killing' Case
The Montreal mother accused in the deaths of her three daughters and her husband's first wife told a Kingston, Ont., courtroom Wednesday that photos of one of the girls in revealing clothing was not a dishonour to her. "[Sahar] was young, it doesn't matter if she took those pictures at that time," Tooba Yahya testified, adding that all teenagers take such images. Yahya is charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of her daughters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti Shafia, 13, as well as her co-accused husband Mohammad Shafia's first wife Rona Amir, 52. The couple's eldest son Hamed, 21, is also charged with murder. The Crown contends the females were victims of so-called honour killings. The accused have pleaded not guilty. "If they took naked pictures, it wasn't a dishonour," Yahya said earlier Wednesday to a packed courtroom on her third day of testimony. The Crown grilled Yahya on specific details relating to the discovery of racy photos of her daughters. She appeared tired and a number of spectators left the courtroom towards the end of the day. At one point, Yahya said she could not remember the date of the funeral for her three daughters. The photos, which depicted her two oldest daughters with their boyfriends and wearing lingerie, have been central to the case. The Crown is trying to nail down exactly when they were discovered by the family. Yahya has testified she found the pictures several days after the bodies of the four women were discovered in the ...
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Shafia Honour Killings: Syed Soharwardy & The Social Worker Shill For Islam
Raj Sharma rips these two clowns a new one. The Social Worker, Shenny Karmali declares that the Shafia murders aren't Honour Killings because Daddy "killed all three daughters. Syed gets caught in a lie, he states he has never called for the implementation of Sharia Law in Canada. This Calgary Herald article says otherwise: Imam undercuts himself by twisting his own words "While preparing for the meeting, a quick search on Canwest's library system showed a Jan. 17, 2004, column written by the cleric. In it, he wrote: "Sharia cannot be customized for specific countries. These universal, divine laws are for all people of all countries for all times." In the same column he also boasts: "I am one of the founding members of the Islamic Institute of Civil Justice. The mandate of the institute is to resolve disputes within existing Canadian laws by using the principles of conflict resolution from Islamic Law, or sharia." His column is clear. He wanted to bring sharia to Canada and even helped found the organization that spearheaded the drive to do so." www.canada.com
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Shafia's Family Murder Case and Muslim Presence's Campaign.mov
Muslim Presence, a Canadian NGO joins White Ribbon Campaign in the aftermath of horrific Shafia family's murder case . CASE: Three sisters, Zanib, 19, Sahar,17 and 13-years old Geeti Shafia were discovered dead with their polygamist father's first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad ,50 , in the car in the Rideau Canal in June 30, 2009. Scope:The White ribbon campaign by Muslim Presence Canada is promotes awareness and a pledge by men towards elimination of violence against women and girls especially in the Muslim's communities. I appreciate for your interview and highlighting this great cause. United we can win hearts and minds! Scope:The White ribbon campaign by Muslim Presence Canada acts for awareness and a pledge by men towards elimination of violence against women and girls especially in the Muslim's communities.
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Michael Coren & Christie Blatchford: the Shafia murders
Canada's finest journalist joins Michael Coren to discuss the so-called Shafia honour killings.
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Shafia takes stand in court
As the alleged honour killing trial continues in Kingston, Mohammad Shafia, the suspect in the case, takes the stand for the first time. Lama Nicolas reports. Dec 8.
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Homa Arjomand on Shafia Honor Killing
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CBC News interviews Dave Perry on Shafia trial interrogation.
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The trial is abruptly halted after Shafia was hospitalized the night before because of a “serious medical emergency.” He was back the next day.
In a video of police interrogation with Yahya acknowledged that her brother had told her, before the deaths, that her husband “wants to kill” Zainab.
Collision expert Constable Chris Prent testified that Shafia’s silver Lexus SUV must have rammed the Nissan Sentra from behind to push it into the canal after the compact car dangled over a stone precipice.
An English translation of Rona Amir Mohammad diary’s reveals a life of despair and mistreatment by Shafia and Tooba.
Prosecutors say they will call up to 58 witnesses, including 21 police officers.
Jury selection begins. Kingston residents were interviewed over three days.
Trial is delayed after Hamed Shafia fired lawyer Clyde Smith and replaced him with Ottawa lawyer Patrick McCann.
Tooba Mohammad Yahya filled the courtroom with her cries for minutes at a time as lawyers reviewed evidence in the killings of her daughters.
Two of three people accused of killing their family members have admitted there is enough evidence to go to trial. Mohammad Shafia, 56, did not, meaning the Crown must prove it has enough evidence to put him on trial. The preliminary inquiry was initially scheduled to start Feb. 2, but was held Friday as a surprise to ensure the trial isn't moved to another city.
The accused appear briefly in a courtroom, only to hear that a new date, Dec. 4, has been set to continue their focus hearing with the judge.
Lawyer Peter Kemp, representing Mohammad Shafia, informed Jack Chiang, a justice of the peace, that the entire month of February has been set aside for a preliminary inquiry in the case.
The accused appear in court via a live video feed. Defense lawyers ask that the case be remanded for two weeks to give them time to study the evidence presented to them by Kingston police. The evidence was so extensive the police presented it on a computer hard drive rather than hand in several boxes of printed documents.
The accused couple appear briefly via video at a Kingston courthouse with one request: that they be allowed to speak to their three surviving children without lawyers present.
A lawyer representing Hamed Mohammad Shafia said his client was attacked in a Napanee, Ont., prison, according to a CBC News report.
Mohammad Shafia, 58, his second wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 42, and their son Hamed, 21, are arrested and charged with four counts each of first-degree murder. They all plead not guilty.
Police planted a recording device in the Shafia vehicle to capture conversations between the surviving family members. “God’s curse on them — May the devil shit on their graves,” Shafia was recorded as saying.
Shafia showed up at Kingston police headquarters to report that his Sentra was missing, along with three of his daughters and Rona Amir Mohammad, who he described to police as his cousin.
Three sisters — Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13 — and Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, the second wife of Mohammad Shafia, were found dead in a black Nissan Sentra at the bottom of the Rideau Canal at Kingston Mills. On the same day, Shafia reported to police that his car was missing, along with three of his daughters and Mohammad, who he described as his cousin.
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