Tehran — An Iranian man has been jailed for greater than eight years after decapitating his spouse and displaying her head in public in a case that shocked the nation, the judiciary stated Wednesday. Mona Heidari, 17, was killed in February 2022 by her husband and brother-in-law in Ahvaz, the capital of the southwestern province of Khuzestan.
Video that emerged later of her smiling husband parading her decapitated head on the street sparked an outpouring of grief and outrage within the Islamic republic.
Sajjad Heidarnava was sentenced to seven and a half years in jail for homicide and eight months for assault, judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi instructed reporters.
The household of Heidari had pardoned the killer quite than demanding qesas — Iran's Islamic regulation of retribution.
"The accused has no proper to protest towards the decision and the choice is last," the spokesman stated.
"The second defendant within the case, Heidar Heidarnava, was sentenced to 45 months in jail for complicity in intentional murder," he added.
On the time of the homicide, media shops in Iran stated Heidari had been married on the age of 12 and was the mom of a three-year-old son when she was killed.
After the crime, human rights defenders referred to as for adjustments to the regulation to guard girls towards home violence and to extend the minimal age of marriage for ladies, presently set at 13.
Iran has been rocked by protests that erupted after the September 16 dying of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, after her arrest for an alleged breach of the nation's gown code for ladies.
A minimum of 4 individuals have been executed for his or her alleged involvement in these protests, which Iran's authorities calls "riots." Nearly 20 extra are dealing with doable dying sentences.
In response to knowledge gathered by the Dying Penalty Info Heart group, Iran was second solely to China in 2021 for utilizing state-sanctioned execution as a punishment for crimes. Iran executed greater than 314 people who yr, based on the middle.