In Canada, a 65-year-old Afghan immigrant was sent to prison for life after jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder in the 2008 slaying of his diminutive wife, Randjida Khairi in an “honor killing”.

In Canada, a 65-year-old Afghan immigrant was sent to prison for life after jurors found him guilty of second-degree murder in the 2008 slaying of his diminutive wife, Randjida Khairi in an “honor killing”. The Prosecution portrayed the crime as a classic “honor killing” — one motivated by the victim’s desire for equal rights and her defence of their children’s increasingly un-Islamic ways.

Link: http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/11/11/afghan-immigrant-found-guilty-of-murder-in-honour-killing-of-wife-in-toronto/