Her findings show that the number of female homicides has not only increased over the past two decades, but has also crossed a critically dangerous level. The women’s rights activist has studied the 1,220 honor killings of women who have been killed in the past 20 years. “In the last 20 years, the number of honor killings in Iran has increased,” said Rezvan Moghaddam, a spokeswoman for the Stop honor Killings Campaign, in an interview with The Independent Persian News. This tragedy has provoked a wave of public sentiment and has brought the issue of honor killings to the forefront of the news again.Ĭivil activists and human rights activists unanimously believe that the number of honor killings is due to the anti-women laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran. After returning from Turkey at the persistence of her father and uncle, her husband kills her and paraded the street with her head with pride and a smile. She had a child at the age of 13 but had a very unhappy life with her husband and since she was not able to get divorce, she fled to Turkey. In the case of Mona Heydari’s murder, the first reaction of the Ahvaz prosecutor was that the victim had provoked the husband by sending her photos from Turkey to him.Īccording to media reports, Mona Heydari was forced to marry her cousin at the age of 12 and was the victim of child marriage. The Iranian government’s approach to honor killings is either silence or indifference, or it implicitly supports the perpetrators. Honor killings are more common in traditional, religious, and patriarchal societies, but the main difference between these crimes in Iran and other countries is that the ruling regime recognizes male domination over women, and current laws not only do not prevent such crimes, they also help to increase them. Most of the girls and women, victims of honor killings, are those who oppose the patriarchal and hegemonic laws, and most of the perpetrators are one of the male members of the tribe who consider themselves the owner of woman and her body.

The names of some of them, such as Romina Ashrafi, Fatemeh Barhi, Reyhaneh Ameri and Negin Darvishi, have remained in the public memory due to their media coverage, but many others have been killed for “ruining the tribe and family reputation” while everything remained calm and no one have known about them. Before her, other women and girls were killed by their fathers, brothers, husbands and closed relatives. Mona Heidari, a 17-year-old teenager who her husband murdered and beheaded her and then paraded the street with her head, is not the first victim of honor killings in Iran, and perhaps will not be the last. Rezvan Moghadam (Spokeswoman for the Stop Honor Killings Campaign), Monday, February 7th, 2022.

Independent Persian News (Sayeh Rahimi) Interview with Dr.

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