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Jonathan Kay: Did the Shafia jury get it wrong?
I didn’t attend the Shafia trial. Instead, I got my facts from reading Christie Blatchford’s reporting. No doubt, there are nuances of the case that will be lost on anyone except a juror or other...
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Barbara Kay: Feminist hypocrisy on honour killings
When Aqsa Parvez was strangled to death by her father and brother in 2007, it was considered very bad form for the media to acknowledge that this was a culturally-motivated killing. In a reflexive...
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Today’s letters: Dignity of ‘little people’ is what is being tossed
Re: Bar Packs Them In For Dwarf-Tossing, Jan. 30. I agree that any person has the right to make a living in any legal way they choose. And being a little person/dwarf myself, I acknowledge that Bradley...
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Jonathan Kay: The legacy of Aqsa Parvez, and the many poisonous definitions...
Facebook Aqsa Parvez was murdered by her father and brother in 2007. Five years ago, Waqas Parvez strangled his 16-year-old sister Aqsa to death in their Mississauga home after she refused to wear the...
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Aruna Papp: Calling out honour-based violence
Today (Sunday, Nov. 25), is United Nations International Day to Eliminate Violence against Women. Creating awareness of the global epidemic of violence against women is crucial. But by taking an...
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Shafia mother breaks down as alleged ‘honour-killing’ trial resumes
By Rob Tripp KINGSTON, Ont. — A Montreal woman accused of killing three daughters and her husband’s first wife began to cry — just moments into her testimony — as she recounted her decision to give one...
View ArticleWhat does the Shafia guilty verdict mean for Canada’s legal system?
The Post’s Tristin Hopper spoke to two Canadian honour killing scholars to discuss the ramifications of Sunday’s verdict in the Shafia murder case. Marie-Pierre Robert is a professor of law at the...
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Shafia trial: Six perspectives on ‘honour’ killings in Canada
The first-degree murder convictions handed down Sunday to Mohammad Shafia, his wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya and their son Hamed has prompted a renewed conversation about honour killings in Canada, and...
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Quebec child-abuse registry came too late to help Shafia victims
MONTREAL • A provincial registry of child-abuse complaints that would have signalled serious trouble in the Shafia household had been requested for “many, many years” by youth protection officials. But...
View Article‘Honour killing’ perpetrators deserve harsher sentences, say Iraqi women
By Yara Bayoumy and Aseel Kami BAGHDAD — Near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a father doused his three teenage daughters with boiling water and shot them because, he told a court, he suspected they...
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British court finds parents guilty of murdering daughter in ‘honour killing’
LONDON — A jury found the Pakistani parents of a teenage girl guilty of murder Friday — a conviction that came after the girl’s sister turned against her parents, telling a jury how her mother and...
View Article‘I’m not happy with my life’: Father felt adrift in Canada, alleged honour...
Illiterate and unable to speak English, Peer Khairi felt adrift in Canada after moving to Toronto with his family in 2003, according to his eldest daughter. The Afghan immigrant and father of six...
View ArticleAccused remains stoic as court hears gruesome details of wife’s alleged...
Peer Khairi glanced dispassionately at the photographs of his dead wife, lingering a few moments on each one, nodding curtly from his perch in the prisoner’s box to indicate he was done. The alleged...
View Article‘I remember him talking about the use of two knives’: Police forced to rely...
There is no electronic record of more than half of Peer Khairi’s interview with Toronto police the day after he killed his wife, so Det.-Sgt. Barsky had to rely on memory when recounting the details...
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Anatomy of an 'honour' killing: Why a Palestinian community demanded a father...
Thamar Zeidan was murdered by her father when he choked her to death as she took an afternoon nap in their small, conservative West Bank village. “Honour crimes” are rarely talked about in Palestinian...
View ArticleFather, brother, uncle and aunt shoot teenager and pitch her into a canal —...
An 18-year-old Pakistani has survived being shot and thrown in a canal by her family for marrying the man she loved, police said, weeks after the “honor killing” of another woman drew worldwide...
View ArticlePakistani-Canadian Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy wins her second Oscar, commends the...
Two-time Oscar-winning Pakistani-Canadian journalist and filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy put cultural issues and the power of film in the spotlight when she won the Best Documentary Short Subject Oscar...
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John Carpay: Defending the right to speak out against honour killings
In a court hearing scheduled to begin in September, the City of Edmonton will have to justify its silencing of a non-profit group that wants to promote gender equality and protect Canadian women and...
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Inside the mind of an honour killer in Pakistan: ‘It was all I could think...
LAHORE, Pakistan — For two months, over the thunder of machines at the steel mill, the men taunted Mubeen Rajhu about his sister. Even now, they laugh at how easy it was to make him lose his temper....
View ArticleEnraged mob slays eloped lovers after storming eastern Afghanistan police...
KABUL, Afghanistan — An armed mob that included relatives of a young woman who had eloped with her lover stormed a police station holding the couple in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend, then...
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