A Revolutionary Guard shot her sister to death in Aleshtar, northern Lorestan Province. Razieh Hassanvand, 20, was the mother of one child.
Razieh Hassanvand had been forced into marriage as a child. After several years, she divorced her cousin despite the opposition of her family. Now, his brother, Bahman, wanted her to marry someone of his choice. Razieh lost her life on Thursday, October 12, 2023, after several days of hospitalization.
In another horrific incident of honor killing, Trotskeh Abdollahzadeh, 21, the mother of two children, was brutalized and hanged by her father, father-in-law, and husband.
Trotskeh Abdollahzadeh lived in Piranshahr, in West Azerbaijan Province. Trotskeh had been forced into marriage at an early age. She had her first child at the age of 13.
Her father, father-in-law, and husband tied her hands and feet and beat her so much that her arms, legs, head, neck, and even her face were broken. Then, they hanged her.
Her father has accepted the responsibility for her murder.
Honor killings are sanctioned and institutionalized by the laws of the clerical regime in Iran.
Under the clerical regime’s misogynous laws, the father owns his children’s blood. If a father kills his daughter, he is not executed for murder. Instead, he will receive a brief prison time and is subsequently released.
Such has been the case with regard to Romina Ashrafi, whose father received a two-year sentence, and was released after a short while on bail.
The Iranian regime’s failure to criminalize domestic violence and violence against women has led to the spread of femicide, honor killings, and murder of innocent children by their fathers, husbands, and other male relatives.
The NCRI Women’s Committee appeals to the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women to investigate these cases and hold the regime accountable for its failure to protect defenseless women.
