A surprising video captured an Iranian man grinning as he walked by the streets clutching the severed head of his 17-year-old spouse — whom he decapitated in an “honor killing,” in response to a report.
The grotesque footage exhibits Sajjad Heydari strolling by a neighborhood in Ahvaz, a metropolis within the southwestern province of Khuzestan, on Saturday with Mona Heydari’s head in a single hand and a blade within the different, East2West Information reported.
Mona, who additionally was Sajjad’s cousin, had been compelled to marry him when she was simply 12 years previous, in response to the Ladies’s Committee of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran.
She reportedly suffered home abuse however was pressured to remain put for the sake of their 3-year-old son, although she had expressed her want to divorce the brute.
The teenager lastly escaped to Turkey however returned after discovering it robust to stay alone in a foreign country, the information outlet reported.
Just a few days later, Sajjad and his brother allegedly tied her palms and chopped off her head. Her physique was dumped earlier than her husband paraded by the streets together with her head.
A police official stated the motive for the homicide was “household variations.”
The 2 males have been reportedly arrested, nevertheless it was unclear what punishment they're prone to face.
Abbas Hosseini-Pouya, prosecutor normal of Ahvaz, the provincial capital of Khuzestan, stated Mona had despatched images of herself to her husband from Turkey that had fueled his “unfavorable feelings,” in response to Iran Worldwide.
The ladies’s committee stated that “not per week goes by with out some type of honor killing making headlines. The clerical regime’s failure to criminalize these murders has led to a catastrophic rise in honor killings.
“In a report revealed in 2019, the state-run Sharq each day newspaper wrote that an annual common of 375 to 450 honor killings are recorded in Iran,” the resistance council stated.
“The catastrophic rise in honor killings in Iran is rooted in misogyny and the patriarchal tradition institutionalized within the legal guidelines and society,” the group continued.
“Though the daddy, brother or husband holds the knife, sickle or rifle, the murders are rooted within the medieval outlook of the ruling regime. The clerical regime’s legal guidelines formally denote that girls are second-degree residents owned by males,” it added.
In the meantime, the state-run information company Rokna was reportedly shut down after it revealed the surprising video.
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