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Canadian Muslim family convicted of 'honor killings'

by: CBC News
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Canadian Muslim family convicted of 'honor killings'
Mohammad Shafia, right, ,Tooba Yahya, center, and their son Hamed Mohammed Shafia, left, are escorted into the Frontenac County courthouse in Kingston, Ontario, Canada on Thursday, Jan. 26. They were convicted of first degree murder of in the killing of Shafia's teenage daughters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, as well as Shafia's first wife in his polygamous marriage. Photo Credit:AP/The Canadian Press/Frank Gunn
A Montreal couple and their son were all convicted Sunday of first-degree murder in the deaths of four family members in a case the judge called "despicable,' "heinous," and stemming from "a completely twisted concept of honour."

Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Yahya and their son Hamed had pleaded not guilty.

They were accused of killing Hamed's three sisters and their father's childless first wife in a polygamous marriage.

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