Iran hangs 'child bride' for murdering husband
despite international calls for clemency
Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an international campaign for clemency, rights groups said.
Samira Sabzian, who had been in prison for the past decade, was executed at dawn in Ghezel Hesar prison in the Tehran satellite city of Karaj, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group said.
Her execution comes as concern grows over the numbers of people this year executed by Iran, where hundreds of people have been hanged mainly on drugs and murder charges, including more than a dozen women.
IHR said Sabzian was a "child bride" who had married her husband at the age of 15 and had been a victim of domestic violence, according to relatives.
The Hengaw rights group also confirmed the execution of the woman, now believed to be in her late 20s or early 30s, saying that she was originally from the city of Khorramabad in the western Lorestan province.
Amnesty International said it was "horrified" by the reports of the "chilling execution", saying the mother of two was "subjected to a forced and early marriage as a child".
The office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights said it was "alarmed" by the execution, saying Sabzian had been forced to marry her husband while aged 15.
"We again urge Iran to establish a moratorium on all executions with a view to abolishing death penalty," it added.
The execution has so far not been reported by media inside Iran.
'Killing machine'
Sabzian was arrested around a decade ago when she was aged 19 on charges of murdering her husband and then subsequently sentenced to death, IHR said.
She had two children who she had not seen after her arrest until a final meeting in prison earlier this month, IHR said.
"Samira was a victim of years of gender apartheid, child marriage and domestic violence, and today she fell victim to the incompetent and corrupt regime's killing machine," said IHR director Mahmood-Amiry Moghaddam.
Rights groups have raised alarm over a surge in executions in Iran this year, with at least 115 people put to death in November alone according to Amnesty International.
"The international community must urgently call on Iran's authorities to immediately establish an official moratorium on executions," Amnesty said.
The British government had called on Iran to spare Sabzian's life.
"Samira is a victim of child marriage... Iran must cease its appalling treatment of women and girls," junior foreign minister Tariq Ahmad said on X, formerly Twitter, late Tuesday.
According to IHR, 18 women have now been executed in Iran this year, including Samira Sabzian.
Rights groups have repeatedly said Iran's sharia-based murder laws -- based on a principle of "qesas" (retribution in kind) -- fail to take into account potentially mitigating factors such as abuse or domestic violence in such cases.
That, of course, would require judgement and some compassion for women and girls, neither of which exist in devout Islam.
Iran has executed eight men in cases related to the protests that erupted in September 2022 but rights groups argue that the surge in hangings on all charges is aimed at instilling fear in the wider population.
According to IHR, Iran executed 582 people in 2022 but this year's total is expected to be significantly higher.
(AFP)
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Haryana: Muslim woman gets triple talaq from husband,
brother-in-law rapes her in name of ‘Halala’,
mother-in-law says justified in Islam
OpIndia, December 19, 2023:
Haryana: Muslim woman gets triple talaq from husband, brother-in-law rapes her in name of ‘Halala’, mother-in-law says justified in religion
A Muslim woman (name withheld) has filed a complaint with the Yamunagar police in Haryana, accusing her husband and her brother-in-law of committing rape.
As per the complaint, the husband of the victim threw her out of the house on 10th August 2022. He had severed their marriage through the proclamation of triple talaq, which has been held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
A police case was registered against the accused husband on 22nd April this year under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 354 (Assault to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 498 (enticing married woman with criminal intent) and Sections 3 and 4 of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act of 2019.
The in-laws of the victim relented and urged her to withdraw the case on 4th September this year. They told the victim that her husband would come to meet her and marry her again.
On 2nd October 2023, the woman’s husband raped her under the pretext of spending the night together. He raped her again on the following day. All the while the accused kept promising to take her to Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh to marry her.
On 4th October this year, he dropped the victim near his house in Saharanpur and asked her to walk home. The accused husband assured the woman that he would come home after some time.
Later, his brother came to the victim’s room and raped her. He told her that she could not marry her husband again without Halala.
When the victim narrated the ordeal to her mother-in-law, she rationalised the act of rape by claiming that Halala is permissible in Islam….
Bangladesh: Muslims vandalize Hindu temples.
India: Muslim teacher uses chocolates
to lure Hindu children to Islam.
With the general elections approaching in Bangladesh, jihad activity against Hindus is spiraling rapidly. And the first move to attack the religious minority has always been for Muslims to vandalize temples — as many as they can — in this Islamist country. Note that we call Bangladesh an Islamist and not just an Islamic country, because in recent years, this small South Asian nation has left its counterpart on the other side of India, Pakistan, far behind its dedication to Sharia and jihad. The indoctrination and religious fascism wired in the minds of all too many young Bangladeshis can make Pakistanis look secular. The religious schools, aka madrasas, the ruling government, and leaders of the political parties contesting for power are all combining forces to make the situation worse. Hence, the approaching elections give the perfect opportunity to “unidentified miscreants” to launch jihad attacks on the Hindus and woo the coveted Muslim vote bloc.
On Friday, December 15, some “unidentified miscreants” vandalized three Hindu temples in the Faridpur district in the Dhaka Division of Bangladesh. The Bangladeshi daily Prathom Alo reports that the temples located in the Alfadanga upazila are identified as Sri Sri Vishnu Pagal Mandir, Kendriya Hari Mandir, and Sri Sri Damodar Akhara, and all are located within a distance of one kilometre from the Alfadanga municipality. Vandals have shattered some ten idols of Hindu deities placed in these temples. The Officer-in-Charge of the Alfadanga police station, Salim Reza, stated that the cops reached the crime spot immediately after receiving information from the locals. He has assured us that they would also file a case and collect CCTV footage. However, no action has been taken and no arrests related to this case have since been reported.
Things are no better in Bangladesh’s secular neighbor, which has the largest Muslim population in a non-Islamic country; in India, instances of crimes by Muslims are soaring by the hour.
On Monday, December 18, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) seized 7.5 kilograms of sodium nitrate, a chemical primarily used for making explosives, from a law college student’s residence in Byadarahalli on the outskirts of Bengaluru.
The NIA took the student, identified as Shamiulla, into custody and continued search operations.
The available information indicates that Shamiulla, along with four others, rented the house. One of his roommates is studying engineering at a reputed college in Bengaluru.
It is suspected that the accused was preparing for a bombing in the city known as India’s IT hub.
The NIA also conducted similar raids on seven other houses in Bellary city in north Karnataka. These raids resulted in the arrest of Suleiman, Ezaj Ahmad, Tabrez, Muzammil, and Nikhil, aka Sufiyan. NIA reportedly suspects that the accused have received training in Afghanistan to carry out jihad terror activities throughout India.
In other news, a Muslim teacher is accused of attempting to convert Hindu children in a residential society in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh. The teacher was hired as a private tutor for some children; little did the parents know that he was luring children to adopt Islam in return for chocolates, as well as pressuring and threatening the children with dire consequences in some cases. The incident came to light after a woman learned that her son was stopped by a man who asked him to “Leave Hindu religion, adopt Muslim religion” in exchange for chocolates.
The child reached home scared and shared the incident with his family members. The society was searched, and the man was apprehended. Meanwhile, a few more children came forward, alleging they were also approached by this man and forced to convert to Islam. The residents of the area eventually reached out to Hindu organizations and the police for help. ACP Kotwali Nimish Patil stated that the matter has come to his notice, and assured the public that the police will register a report and take action as per the complaint received. However, no action has yet been taken, according to the latest available reports.
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