How an old family photo could derail Hamed Shafia’s last-ditch appeal
Tag Archives: honour killings
Shafia ‘honour killers’ lose bid for new trial
‘Charitably put, the evidence of guilt was overwhelming,’ reads an Ontario Court of Appeal ruling
Inside the Shafia killings that shocked a nation
From the archives: Michael Friscolanti’s longread tells the whole story of the Shafia “honour killings”
The Shafia honour killing trial—Chapter 2
The roots of a tortured clan
On the importance of words
I am out of Ottawa for a few days and mostly without proper Internet access so I missed the Contretemps Trudeau and don’t now have time now to sufficiently sort through the ensuing panic and scorn. Here though is Justin Trudeau’s Twitter feed. Make of it what you will.
Same story, different ending
Twenty years before Aqsa Parvez defied her family, I did the same to mine. Why did only one of us survive?
Government at work
In the middle of an article that notes, in part, the superfluousness of changing the Criminal Code to cover “honour killings,” this explanation for Rona Ambrose’s comments.
When what we say is the opposite of what is actually happening
Rona Ambrose misspeaks.