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Quebec Prison: Mohammad and Sisters Zainab

quebec prison: Yahya, husband Mohammad Shafia and their son, Hamed, were each found guilty in 2012 on four counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years, according to The Chronicle Herald. The bodies of sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, Mohammad Shafia's childless first wife in a polygamous marriage, were found in June 2009 in a car submerged in a canal in Kingston, Ont. But the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada's expulsion order for Tooba Yahya will be executed only when she is released from a Quebec prison, her lawyer, Stephane Handfield, said in an interview. The Crown argued at trial the women were murdered because they refused to abide by the family's rules. The family was originally from Afghanistan and lived in Montreal. Court heard that notions of honour, directly tied to women's sexuality and general control over their behaviour, led the Shafias to kill in an effort to cleanse them of the shame they perceived their daughters to have brought upon them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.