Those who have protested against the Iranian regime in recent days have received very severe penalties or have been sent directly to hanging , he who beheaded his 17 - year - old wife was only sentenced to seven and a half years .
Sajjad Heidarnava, in February 2022, cut off the head of his wife Mona Heidari, after years of domestic violence (for which he received 8 additional months).
When they got married Mona was only 12 years old, at 14 she gave birth to their first child. But life with her husband was hell, between abuse and beatings. So she fled to Turkey, perhaps to live with a Syrian she met online.
The family repeatedly asked her to return to the Iranian city of Ahvaz , and she gave in. But when her husband found out she was back he brutally killed her. To add horror to the horror, a video posted on the web in which the killer walks laughing through the streets of Ahvaz brandishing the severed head of his 17-year-old wife as if it were a trophy.
It was an "honor killing", the judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi cut short, according to which the parents of the young victim "forgave the murderer". Human rights activists rise up : heinous murders, under the pretext of alleged "honour killings", are treated in the same way as thefts and robberies.
(Unioneonline/D)
