In her latest blog, Mehnoush tells the tragic story of a young child bride who was accused of murdering her abusive husband in order to stay alive and after many years in prison was executed by the evil Iranian regime.
Zeinab joins a long list of victimized women in Iran who are unjustly executed by a misogynistic culture.
Once again, another case of a woman and another crime against her committed
by the shameless and misogynist system of Islamic Republic of Iran!
Zainab Sekaanvand
was a teenage girl whose family forced her to marry at the young age of 15.
She suffered for a long time being beaten and tortured by her abusive husband. Through several
letters from prison, she had already explained everything about her dark and
shameful life; also, she had claimed to have been raped several times by her
brother-in-law.
When she was only a teenager, Zainab may have been compelled to commit a
crime which could be considered a kind of self-defense against threat, rape,
harassment, cursing and torture, while Islamic system calls it murder. Like so many other innocent women, Zeinab was compelled to confess to a murder that she later denied committing after finally being represented by a lawyer. Despite her denial, the Judge refused to investigate her claim and instead sentenced her to death. The
judge on duty did not pay any attention at all to the way she had been harassed
and tortured and only emphasized the need for capital punishment. In a letter
to Human Rights Organization, Zeinab had already mentioned that she was
frequently tortured and hit by her male investigators who had made her sign
some phony documents. She was also raped by one investigator during the
investigation process; afterwards, she got pregnant and gave birth to a still
born child.
However, the prison authorities claimed she had already gotten
married to one of the prisoners and then became pregnant! No one can possibly
believe such a big lie! In fact, this suppressed young girl is a typical
example of thousands of Iranian girls and women who are regularly harassed and
oppressed by the judicial and legal system of the country and then executed as
innocent victims. None of these girls and women are allowed to complain or live
a normal life under the control of the Islamic government and they are simply
regarded as sexual slaves of men’s lusts. This is the only value of a girl or a
woman in Islamic ideology as well as in Islamic lands.
Zeinab;
