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Iran, child bride and year-long victim of domestic violence Samira Sabzian who killed her 'husband' has been been executed in Ghezelhesar Prison (www.iranhr.net)

submitted 10 months ago by tardigrada to c/news

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Samira was a child bride married at 15 and a victim of domestic violence. She had two young children, one a new-born baby, when she was arrested and had not seen her children in ten years. She saw them for the first and last time when they came to the prison to say goodbye.

At the time of writing, her execution has not been reported by domestic media or officials in Iran.

Rights group calls for Ali Khamenei and other leaders of the Islamic Republic to be held accountable for this crime.

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[–] tardigrada 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I don't want to disturb the thread here about religion, islam, and the like, but the point here is that a young girl was forced into a marriage at the age of 15, then raped and beaten by her 'husband', and then hanged by an autocratic regime because she obviously found no other way out of the horror. The Iranian regime is in charge of that, the people responsible are to be held accountable, rather than any religion, ideology, or the like.

[–] jarfil 16 points 10 months ago

This is horrible and should be documented... but let's be realistic: nobody will be held accountable as long as Iran has Oil and Nukes... and by the time it runs out of those, the people responsible will likely be long dead.

All we can do is hope for Cold Fusion to become a reality, so all the Oil based dictatorships would collapse.

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 11 points 10 months ago

exactly, also these type of shit can happen in any totalitary regime https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-52651477

[–] Gh05t 4 points 10 months ago

This is the point I was trying to get at; although very inelegantly. Thanks for this.

[–] S_204@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Islamic jihadism is a problem that the world needs to get in front of.

The problem is, there's a lot of wealth in the places that are true believers in Islamic jihadism and that wealth is being used nefariously to undermine liberal western democratic ideals. Watching people cheer for Osama bin Laden should be a real eye opener for the west but it might already be too late.

[–] Linnce 2 points 10 months ago

Fucked up