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Parole Board Grants Shafia Escorted Minimum-Security Visit

By Drooid · Sep 18, 2026, 8:04 PM UTC · How we work

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Parole Board of Canada panel granted Hamed Shafia an escorted visit to a minimum-security facility.
The panel denied his request for an escorted visit to a mosque.
Shafia is serving a life sentence for four first-degree murders committed in June 2009.
The victims were sisters Zainab (19), Sahar (17), Geeti (13) and Rona Amir Mohammad (52).
The trial judge said the killings were motivated by a “twisted concept of honour.”

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Parole Board of Canada panel granted Hamed Shafia an escorted visit to a minimum-security facility.
The panel denied his request for an escorted visit to a mosque.
Shafia is serving a life sentence for four first-degree murders committed in June 2009.
The victims were sisters Zainab (19), Sahar (17), Geeti (13) and Rona Amir Mohammad (52).
The trial judge said the killings were motivated by a “twisted concept of honour.”