Iranian severed head twitter video reddit, Sajjad Heydari in Ahvaz
Footage of an Iranian man carrying his wife's head after her "honor killing" has been widely shared.
As reported, a shocking video showed an Iranian man grinning while carrying his wife, a 17-year-old girl he had decapitated in a "honor killing," as he walked through the streets.
Footage from Saturday in Ahvaz, a southern Iranian city, shows Sajjad Heydari strolling around with Mona Heydari's head in one hand, and a blade in the other, according to East2West News.
According to the Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Mona, Sajjad's cousin, was forced to marry him when she was just 12 years old.
Even though she had expressed her desire to divorce the brute, she was compelled to remain in the relationship for the sake of their 3-year-old son.
Despite making it to Turkey, the teen decided to return because it was too difficult to live alone in another country, according to the news outlet.
The 17 years old #MonaHeydari who was beheaded in Iran in the weekend by husband as an act of "honor killing".The Sharia laws do not protect women rights in Iran.Previously she had escaped to Turkey but was forced to return to abusive husband. She was forced to marry at 12. RIP pic.twitter.com/qEF9ImXOLn
— mina bai (@bai_mina) February 6, 2022
Sajjad and his brother allegedly tied her up and chopped off her head a few days later. Her corpse was dumped before her husband could take her head out on the street.
An official from the police department stated that "family disagreements" were the cause of the murder.
The two men were reportedly detained, but it's not clear what punishment they'll receive.
According to Iran International, Khuzestan's prosecutor general, Abbas Hosseini-Pouya, claimed that Mona had sent photos of herself to her husband from Turkey, fueling his "negative emotions."
An honor killing story is in the news almost every week, according to the women's committee. Honor killings have skyrocketed as a result of the clerical regime's failure to criminalize them.
375-450 honor killings are reported in Iran each year, according to a report published in 2019 by the state-run Sharq daily newspaper, according to the Iranian resistance council.
Iran's alarming rise in honor killings can be traced to the country's deeply ingrained patriarchal culture, according to the group.
"Even though the killings are carried out by a father, brother, or husband brandishing a knife, sickle, or rifle, the ruling regime's medieval outlook is at the root of the crimes. "" Legally speaking, women are second-class citizens owned by men," the clerical regime stated.
Another government news agency has reportedly been shut down after publishing the shocking video.