Sahar Shafia: Mohammad Shafia

sahar shafia: Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya, and their son Hamed Shafia — immigrants originally from Afghanistan — were jointly convicted of murder in 2012, according to Guelph Mercury. They were arrested three weeks after the victims — Zainab Shafia, 19, Sahar Shafia, Geeti Shafia, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 58 — were found in a submerged car at the Kingston Mills locks near Kingston, Ont. In unanimously rejecting an appeal by the Shafia family members, Ontario top court ruled among things that expert evidence on so-called honour killings had been properly admitted at their trial and the son was properly tried as an adult. "Honour was a recurrent theme of discussions among the appellants after the deaths of the deceased," the Court of Appeal for Ontario said in its decision. Autopsies found they had drowned. Despite a lack of eyewitness testimony, the prosecution maintained the deaths were planned and deliberate, even if the exact role each accused played was unclear. At trial, the accused argued unsuccessfully that the deaths were accidental. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.