{"id":5449,"date":"2012-01-30T04:29:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T09:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=5449"},"modified":"2012-01-30T08:16:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T13:16:05","slug":"morning-morning-read-i-immigrant-family-in-kingston-convicted-of-honor-murders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/01\/30\/morning-morning-read-i-immigrant-family-in-kingston-convicted-of-honor-murders\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Immigrant family in Kingston Ontario convicted of &#8220;honor&#8221; murders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhig.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3453405\">The Kingston Whig-Standard<\/a> is describing the trial as the &#8220;one of the most sensational&#8221; in the city&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three Afghan immigrants found guilty Sunday of  murdering four family members and dumping their bodies in the Rideau  Canal were condemned by the judge for what he called \u201ccold-blooded\u201d  killings based on their \u201ctwisted notion of honour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice Robert  Maranger sentenced Mohammad Shafia, his wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya, and  their son, Hamed, to life in prison as one the most sensational trials  in Kingston history came to a dramatic end at Frontenac County Court  House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Shafias were convicted of killing four female family members for defying their parents&#8217; strict codes of female behavior, which included a ban on dating.<\/p>\n<p>The murders in 2009 and the trial that followed have rattled Ontario, as the province has moved to become one of the most immigrant-friendly, multi-cultural regions of Canada.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewhig.com\/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3453405\">Read the full article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kingston Whig-Standard is describing the trial as the &#8220;one of the most sensational&#8221; in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[880,6501,4872,4852],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}