A woman was beaten to death by her father because she wanted to get a divorce for the second time.
The woman identified as 20-year-old Zinat Mazidi died after being beaten with an iron bar suffering multiple blows to the head.
She was from a village in Fars Province.
A photo of a poster announcing a memorial ceremony for Zinat Mazidi on Monday, the 3rd day of her death, has been shared on social media.
Violence against women is considered one of the most flagrant violations of human rights globally.
Not a week goes by without some form of honor killing making headlines. The clerical regime’s failure to criminalize these murders has led to a catastrophic rise in honor killings.
The regime’s laws are lax when it comes to “honor” killings and are not decisive in punishing the murderer. Usually, because the law considers the father as the owner of his child’s blood, he does not receive a proportionate punishment for murdering his daughter. This is a license to kill, as evident in the murder of Romina Ashrafi in May 2020.
The police and judicial authorities also act negligently. The law enforcement officers stop at the door. Under the clerical regime’s laws, they are not allowed to enter anyone’s house when a case of domestic violence against women is reported.
In a report published in 2019, the state-run Sharq daily newspaper wrote that an annual average of 375 to 450 honor killings are recorded in Iran. The murders are more prevalent in Khuzestan, Kurdistan, Ilam, and Sistan and Baluchestan.
In a recent publicized case of honor killing, after a man beheaded his 17-year-old wife, Mona Heydari, he paraded her severed head in the streets of the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz in an attempt to prove that he’s an honorable man. Footage of the macabre scene was posted online in early February showing Sajjad Heydari smiling.
