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Today she should die hanged. Samira Sabzian, the “child bride,” was imprisoned in Iran for ten years and sentenced to the death penalty for killing her husband. The now almost thirty-year-old woman was forced to marry at the age of 15. Four years later, in 2013, she murdered her husband, also a victim of domestic violence. His execution, originally scheduled for December 13, was postponed for a few days and will take place in Qarchak Prison in Tehran Province. “At this point, only a strong international response can save his life,” Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the director of the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights, wrote in X. “We appeal to all countries that have diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic, “To call on them to stop the execution of Samira's sentence before it is too late.” Under the Ayatollahs' penal code, which is based on Islamic law, anyone guilty of intentional homicide is automatically sentenced to the death penalty, regardless of their motives or the circumstances in which the intention to commit the offense arose. The victim's family has the power to decide whether to continue this punishment or pardon the murderer and demand financial compensation. The circumstances that led to Samira killing her husband, with whom she lived in Varamin, Tehran province, have never been fully understood. According to the pro-government newspaper Rakna, she conspired with her younger sister Sara to poison the man. The media defined the two women as “evil,” while the NGO Iran Human Rights stated that “Samira, like many other women on death row, is a victim of the Islamic Republic's gender apartheid system.” She was beaten and put in a coma , because she didn't wear a veil. For the first time since her incarceration, the woman was able to meet her children in the week before the execution. She was prevented from seeing them in order to “temper” her husband's parents, with whom the children were raised, in the hope that they would change their mind about the death sentence. However, the grandparents decided to continue with the death penalty. According to the Hrana press agency, Samira suffers from very serious health problems. She apparently can no longer speak and was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair. It is still unclear whether this is an illness or the result of abuse in prison. Under the Islamic Penal Code, those accused of “premeditated murder” are subject to qisas. Regardless of the intentions or circumstances under which the killing occurred, the victim's relatives can choose between three options: demand the actual execution of the condemned person, dieh (receive a sum of money in return for shed blood), or grant forgiveness. In this case, the grandparents of Samira's children demanded that she be hanged. Hoping for forgiveness from her husband's family, Samira had given up seeing her two children, ages 17 and 10, throughout the ten years she was incarcerated on death row. Vain. The man's family called for the death penalty to be carried out.
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THE NUMBERS
At least 17 women were executed in Iran in 2023, little is known about the executions, official sources reported none, the year before there were 16. Iran has recorded the highest number of executions of women in the world: at least 204 since 2010, the most of them were convicted of killing their husbands. Many for much less. It was September 16, 2022, when Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian of Kurdish origin, died in hospital as a result of a cerebral hemorrhage. Three days earlier, she was arrested in Tehran for wearing the hijab incorrectly and was allegedly beaten and hit in the head by moral police. As for the “child bride” who is in solitary confinement on Qarchak's death row, the execution was scheduled for December 13, but Iranian authorities postponed the execution for a week following international pressure. But the 7 days have expired.
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