Maclean’s releases first multimedia e-book ?on Shafia family murder trial

TORONTO – It’s a case that captured headlines nationwide and made Muslim leaders across Canada denounce so-called honour killings, domestic violence and misogyny.

Now, coverage of the Shafia family murder trial is available as a multimedia e-book-the first of its kind in Canada.

During the duration of the trial, Maclean’s reporter Michael Friscolanti lived in a Kingston, Ont., hotel room for three months. The Shafia Honour Killing Trial allows readers to immerse themselves in the trial itself and includes documents, video and audio evidence from the courtroom.

Sisters, Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and 13-year-old Geeti Shafia, were discovered with their polygamist father’s first wife, Rona Amir Mohammad, 50, in the car in Montreal’s Rideau Canal in June 2009.

Last month, a jury found the girls’ father, Mohammad Shafia, his second wife, Tooba Mohammad Yahya and their son Hamed Mohammad Shafia guilty of four counts of first-degree murder with no chance of parole for 25 years.

The full e-book is available for purchase as an iPad app or can be downloaded as a PDF document.

A downloadable PDF sample chapter can be seen below.

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