The representative of the judiciary told reporters that the victim’s parents “forgave” her killer
An Iranian man was sentenced to eight years in prison after he decapitated his wife and carried her head around in the street
An Iranian man has been sentenced to just over eight years in prison for beheading his wife in 2022 and then walking her head around in the street, a case that shocked the country, the judiciary announced today.
THE Mona Heydari, 17 years oldwas murdered in February 2022 by her husband, who accused her of adultery, and her brother-in-law in Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran.
Rukna wrote, a young man turned his 17-year-old wife around in front of people in the square and after a few minutes of walking, he ran away. به روكنا روكنا, the killer and his brother who are his partner have been arrested. According to this report, the victim was returned after fleeing to Turkey from his wife pic.twitter.com/uPTqExj8oD
— ايران آنترنشنال (@IranIntl) February 5, 2022
Video showing her husband walking down the street smiling, holding her head caused shock and outrage in Iran.
Today the Massoud Setayesi, A spokesman for the judiciary told reporters that Mona’s parents had “forgiven” her killer Sazad Heydarnava.
“The man was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for the intentional homicide of a Muslim woman and to eight months for abuse,” he added.
“The accused has no right to challenge the sentence and the decision is final,” he stressed.
“The second defendant, Mr Heydar Heydarnava, was sentenced to 45 months in prison for complicity in manslaughter,” Setagiesi noted.
At the time of the incident, local media reported that Mona was just 12 years old when she was married and the mother of a 3-year-old boy when she was killed. The 17-year-old had fled to Turkey to escape her husband’s abuse, but her close relatives forced her to return to Iran.
After the tragic incident, many human rights advocates called on the Iranian authorities to amend the law to protect women from domestic violence and to raise the minimum age of marriage for girls, which is now 13.
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