Tehran: Viral Video A man who appeared to display the head of the young wife who was beheaded on the road after he found his alleged adultery was very shaken by Iran.
The police suspected that Mona Heidari, 17, was killed by her husband and brother-in-law in the southwest city of Ahvaz, the IRAN ISNA news agency reported.
On Monday, the officers had arrested the two men “during the attack in their hiding place”, the IRNA state news agency said, quoting the local police.
This case encouraged Iran’s vice president for women’s business, Imaniyah Khazali, to summon parliament to take “urgent steps” and on the authorities to raise awareness to prevent these cases.
Iran’s newspaper and social media saw a surprise and anger over murder, with many demanding social and legal reforms.
“A human being beheaded, his head is displayed on the streets and the killer is proud,” Sazandegi’s reformers said daily.
“How can we accept such tragedies? We must act so that femicides do not happen again.” The famous feminist filmmaker Tahmineh Milani wrote on Instagram: “Mona is a victim of destructive ignorance.
We are all responsible for this crime.” After Heidari’s murder, the call was revived to reform the law for women’s protection against domestic violence and to increase the age of the law to get married, currently set at 13 in Iran.
According to Iran media, the victim was only 12 when he married, and had a three-year-old son when he was killed.
Lawyers Ali Mojtahedzadeh, on Sharhh’s reformist paper, blamed the “legal gap” to “open the way for honorary murder”.
Members of Parliament Elham Nadaf said to the ILNA news agency: “Unfortunately, we witnessed such incidents because there were no concrete steps to ensure legal implementation to prevent violence against women.” The authorities temporarily turn off the Rokna news website, said it was “psychologically disrupted society” after sharing the man’s viral video, IRNA reported.
In May 2020, a man beheaded his 14-year-old daughter where called “honorary murder” which triggered public anger.
He was sentenced to nine years in prison that year.