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An Iranian man has been jailed for more than eight years after decapitating his wife and displaying her head in public, in a case that shocked the country, the judiciary said Wednesday.
Mona Heidari, 17, was killed in February 2022 by her husband and brother-in-law in Ahwaz, capital of the southwestern province of Khuzestan.
Video that emerged later of her smiling husband parading her decapitated head in the street sparked an outpouring of grief and outrage in the Islamic Republic.
Sajjad Heidarnava was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for murder and eight months for assault, judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi told reporters.
The family of Heidari had pardoned the killer rather than demanding qesas — Iran’s Islamic law of retribution…
At the time of the murder, media outlets in Iran said Heidari had been married at the age of 12 and was the mother of a three-year-old son when she was killed….
An Iranian man has been jailed for more than eight years after decapitating his wife and displaying her head in public, in a case that shocked the country, the judiciary said Wednesday.
Mona Heidari, 17, was killed in February 2022 by her husband and brother-in-law in Ahwaz, capital of the southwestern province of Khuzestan.
Video that emerged later of her smiling husband parading her decapitated head in the street sparked an outpouring of grief and outrage in the Islamic Republic.
Sajjad Heidarnava was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for murder and eight months for assault, judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi told reporters.
The family of Heidari had pardoned the killer rather than demanding qesas — Iran’s Islamic law of retribution…
At the time of the murder, media outlets in Iran said Heidari had been married at the age of 12 and was the mother of a three-year-old son when she was killed….
