Canada deports Afghan-origin woman for killing daughters in ‘honour-killing’

Afghanistan-origin, Tooba Yahya was stripped off her permanent residency in Canada and deported from the country for killing her three daughters under the name of ‘honour-killing’. The expulsion will be applicable to her after she will be released from Quebec prison.

Tooba Yahya, her husband Mohammad Shafia and son Hamed were found guilty of murdering four women and were sentenced to 25 years of prison without any parole in 2012.

The murdered Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, Geeti, 13, were daughters of Tooba Yahya while Rona Amir Mohammad, 52, was the first childless wife of Mohammad Yahya in a polygamous marriage. Their bodies were found in a car that was submerged in a canal in Kingston, Ontario.

The women were murdered because they refused to abide by the family rules. Notions put up in the court in defense said that honour, directly tied to women’s sexuality and general control of their behavior, was put at stake and they were killed in order to cleanse the family of the shame that they had brought.

Speculations suggest that Yahya, Shafia and Hamed drowned the four victims or led them to unconsciousness or death, placed their dead bodies in the car and pushed it into the canal with the help of another vehicle.

However, it couldn’t be proved where or how the pre-drowning occurred.