Father and brother plead guilty in “Honor Killing” in the greater Toronto area

On Dec. 10, 2007, Asqa Parvez’s father called 911 saying he had killed her. When police arrived, they found Ms. Parvez’s mother crying hysterically and her father with blood on his hands. In a Brampton courtroom last week, Ms. Parvez’s father, Muhammad Parvez, 60, and her brother, Waqas Parvez, 29, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder….

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Hearings open in the murder trial of Aqsa Parvez

The two men accused in the high-profile death of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez appeared in a Brampton court yesterday as a preliminary hearing began in a case previously described as an alleged honour killing. Ms. Parvez was found strangled in her family’s home on Dec. 10, 2007. Friends have claimed Ms. Parvez had been at odds…

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