A Daughter Is Beheaded, and Iran Asks if Women Have a Right to Safety

[Mosby]

Before he beheaded his 14-year-old daughter with a farming sickle, Reza Ashrafi called a lawyer.

His daughter, Romina, was going to dishonor the family by running off with her 29-year-old boyfriend, he said. What kind of punishment, he asked the lawyer, would he get for killing her?

The lawyer assured him that as the girl’s guardian he would not face capital punishment but at most 3 to 10 years in jail, Mr. Ashrafi’s relatives told an Iranian newspaper.

Three weeks later, Mr. Ashrafi, a 37-year-old farmer, marched into the bedroom where the girl was sleeping and decapitated her.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/07/world/middleeast/honor-killing-iran-women.html

[VarryOn]

1. What a despicable place...

You think the damned lawyer would have reported him, but I supposed their cops are bad there, too.

As bad as things are here, this shows there are worse places...much worse!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. This is horrifying. You can murder your daughter if you're willing to risk 3 - 10 years

in prison. Imagine girls growing up with that knowledge.

[lostnfound]

3. Punishment should be...

What pigs. Ought to lose the only thing they care about. Since they obviously care so much about male pride and not about their daughters.