Ziynat Mazidi (20) beaten to death by her father in Deh Now in Iran because she wanted a divorce
Ziynat Mazidi Born 2002 beaten to death: 24 March 2022 Residence: Deh Now, Fars province Origin: Fars Children: – Perpetrator: her father Excuse: ‘honor’
On Thursday, March 24, in the village of Deh Now in Iran’s Fars province, 20-year-old Ziynat Mazidi was beaten to death with an iron bar by her father.
Her father reportedly killed her because she had decided to get a divorce.
In Iran, fathers who kill their daughters for honor are often given 3 to 5 years in prison because of a number of dated articles of law. In 2021, similar sharia-based articles of law were removed in Syria and Sudan in order to bring their own laws more in line with those of the international community.
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