Iran executes former child bride who allegedly killed her abusive husband

She was 15 years old when forced to marry an abusive man. Two years later, she allegedly stabbed him to death--she was only 17, you know what I mean. This was in 2012.

Zeinab Sekaanvand, 24, was executed by the Iranian regime two days after giving birth to a stillborn child who was fathered by a prison mate. She met and married him while in prison serving her sentence.

Amnesty International, a human rights group, explained that her first husband was physically and verbally abusive to her and refused to grant her a divorce, as is mandatory in sharia law--only the husband can grant the divorce, and he also gets custody of the kids, if there are any to get.

Zeinab was sent to Urmieh Central Prison in northern Iran for murder and eventually sentenced to death after they tortured her for a confession.

When she became pregnant, her death sentence was postponed, again, under sharia law. After the baby was to be born, then they would kill her, as is the custom.

“She was subjected to a grossly unfair legal process,” according to Amnesty International. The organization made a plea to the Iranian regime the day before her execution in an effort to delay or commute the sentence.

The Iranian regime didn't listen to the plea for clemency.

In an announcement, Amnesty International tweeted:

“24-year-old Zeinab was executed in Iran this morning. She was a child when arrested & convicted after an unfair trial. She said male police officers tortured her in detention. We’ll issue a response soon. Pls RT & tell to stop sentencing children to death!”

These are the cruel people the last administration made a deal with and one in which they've broken.


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