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The Shafia Family murders took place on June 30, 2009 in Kingston, Ontario. Shafia sisters Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13, along with Rona Amir Mohammed, 50, were found dead inside a car that was discovered underwater in front of the northernmost Kingston Mills lock of the Rideau Canal on the same day. Zainab, Sahar, and Geeti were daughters of Mohammad Shafia, 58 and his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41. The couple also had a son Hamed, 20. Rona, who was herself infertile, was the first wife of Mohammad Shafia in their polygamous household. On July 23, 2009, Mohammad, Tooba Yahya, and Hamed were arrested on charges of four counts of first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder under the guise of honour killing. They were found guilty of all four counts by the jury in January 2012. The trial, which took place at the Frontenac County Court House, was believed to be a first in Canada conducted in four languages – English, French, Dari and Spanish.〔(Jury selection for murder trial begins next week ) from The Kingston Whig-Standard. Retrieved November 24, 2011.〕 The trial garnered media attention in Canada for several months, and raised the debate over Canadian values, honour crimes, and protection of vulnerable immigrant groups. ==Background== The Shafia family left Afghanistan for neighbouring Pakistan in 1992. From there they moved to Australia then to the United Arab Emirates for over a decade, where Mohammad Shafia had made a fortune in Dubai real estate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=shafia trial – Topics )〕 They immigrated into Canada and settled in the Saint-Léonard borough of Montreal in 2007.〔 〕〔 In 1979 or 1980, Mohammad Shafia married Rona Mohammed, who was unable to have children. In 1989, he took Tooba Yahya to be his second wife in a polygamous marriage, and she gave birth to seven children, though Rona played a crucial role in their upbringing and raised the children as if they were her own. When the family immigrated to Canada, Rona was presented as an aunt. Except for Rona, the Shafia family practiced Shi'a Islam.〔http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Shafia+mother+heart+bleeds+during+family+murder+trial/5970892/story.html〕〔http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Accused+says+heart+often+bleeds+cries+only+once+stand/5970215/story.html?id=5970215〕 According to a family member's interview, Rona was trapped in an abusive, loveless marriage, trying in vain to convince her husband to grant her a divorce. Rona's siblings claimed that she feared for her life during the days leading up to her death.〔 〕 Tooba, the second wife, allegedly said to Rona “You are a slave, you are a servant.” Reportedly, the Shafias held all of Rona’s identity documents, including her passport, so Rona believed she could not flee to another country, where she had relatives. 〔 It was reported that Rona came to Canada as a domestic servant on a visitor's visa and the "() renewal held over her head like an axe ready to fall" by her husband and co-wife. They also stated that the family's eldest daughter Zainab's relationship with a Pakistani boy was a source of much anger for her father, and they claimed to have overheard the father's threats to kill her. With parents Mohammad Shafia and Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and eldest son Hamed Shafia all in custody during the trial, the remaining Shafia children (two girls and a boy) are being cared for under social services.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shafia family murders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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