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.
Mona Heydari, 17, was 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.
Video showing her husband walking down the street smiling, holding her head caused shock and outrage in Iran.
Today Massoud Setagyesi, a spokesman for the judiciary, told reporters that Mona's parents had "forgiven" her killer Sazad Heydarnawa. "The man was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for the intentional homicide of a Muslim woman and eight months for abuse," he added. own.
"The accused has no right to challenge the sentence and the decision is final," he stressed.
"The second defendant, Heydar Heydarnava, was sentenced to 45 months in prison for complicity in manslaughter," Setagyesi 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.
Source: RES-EAP