— Ottawa Citizen Reports “Union boss jailed in ‘‘honour’ crime”
— “The head of Ottawa’s taxi union has been sentenced to 12 months in jail for threatening his daughter with an honour crime if she did not obey his wishes.”
— “Ontario Superior Court Justice Lynn Ratushny said the sentence was the minimum penalty that Yusef Al Mezel could serve to address the ‘strong need’ for denunciation and general deterrence after he implied that the actions of his 23-year-old daughter would be met with violence because she had shamed and dishonoured her family.”
— ” ‘They invoke a seriously dangerous belief system that can and has led to violence against women,’ said Ratushny.”
— ” ‘Mr. Al Mezel has threatened his daughter with serious violence and has caused her to fear for her safety in the name of honour. He has committed the crime of harassment against her in the name of honour,’ she said.”
— “The incident occurred after an argument over Eman Al Mezel’s volunteer work. Eman Al Mezel said she moved out of the home after her father arranged for her to marry a 24-year-old Syrian man.”
— Yusef Salam Al Mazel “also wrote of ‘the Sharaf of the family,’ which Eman Al Mezel later explained to police was the belief that she had shamed and dishonoured her family because she had run away from home and shed her hijab and Muslim beliefs.”

— Canadian National Post report: “Taxi union boss jailed for threat of honour crime”

— Ottawa Sun Reports: “Taxi boss jailed for threats against daughter”
— “The city’s taxi union boss was handed a year in jail Tuesday for what a judge deemed an ‘honour crime.’
— “Yusef Salam Al Mezel, 44, had pleaded guilty to criminally harassing his 23-year-old daughter, Eman, over three weeks in July 2007.”
— ” ‘Mr. Al Mezel has threatened his daughter with serious violence and has caused her to fear for her safety in the name of honour,’ Judge Lynn Ratushny wrote. ‘He has committed the crime of harassment against her in the name of honour.’ ”
— “Al Mezel admitted to pushing his daughter, threatening to break her legs and kill her and smashing her computer. When she fled marriage to a Syrian man for a $9,000 dowry, he stalked her to a shelter and a friend’s home.”
— “He sent her e-mails threatening her uncles and cousins would go ‘crazy’ over the family’s honour and to come home before someone got hurt.”
— “Police spirited the young woman — and the family sheltering her — out of Ottawa.”

— August 14, 2009: Canada: Prosecution wants father jailed for “honor crime” threats against daughter
— Ottawa Citizen: ” ‘When she wouldn’t bend to his will … he raised the spectre of violence in the name of honour to scare her into complying with his wishes,’ said Cavanagh, who urged Ontario Superior Court Justice Lynn Ratushny to sentence the 44-year-old president of the Canadian Autoworkers Local 1688 to 18 to 24 months behind bars.”