Publish dateMonday 19 March 2018 - 11:47
Story Code : 160331
Afghan Mother Convicted Of Honor Killing Ordered Deported
A woman found guilty of murdering her three daughters in an honor killing was stripped of her permanent residency Thursday and ordered deported from the country once she has served her sentence.
AVA- Canada’s Ottawa Sun reported 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.
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.
The bodies of sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, and Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, Mohammad Shafia’s first wife, were found in June 2009 in a car submerged in a canal.
Ottawa Sun reported the Crown argued at trial the women were murdered because they refused to abide by the family’s rules.
According to the report, the court heard that notions of honor led the Shafias to kill in an effort to cleanse them of the shame they perceived their daughters had brought upon them.
The family was originally from Afghanistan and lived in Montreal.
While Yahya is now without status in a Quebec prison, Handfield said nothing should change regarding her rights or conditions in detention.
The family has been in prison bars since their arrests on July 22, 2009, the Ottawa Sun reported.
According to brinkwire.com, The family arrived in Canada from Afghanistan in 2007.
Meanwhile CBC reported that it will be 16 years before Yahya is eligible for parole.
Asked by Newsweek for information on the immigration status of Mohammad and Hamed Shafia, a spokesperson said that a hearing for Mohammad Shafia had taken place on February 27 and that he was also issued a deportation order. The spokesperson did not have any information on Hamed Shafia.
 
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