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Ehrenmorde im Iran: Mildernde Umstände für Mörder

 

Die iranische Feministin Mehrangiz Kar schreibt über die Ehrenmorde im Iran:

„Honor killings are as old as paternalistic cultures. What makes honor killings interesting ‎in majority Muslim societies is that, in these societies, the legislator defends the murderer ‎who commits an honor killing against a woman, citing mandates set by the Sharia and ‎Islamic law. ‎
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In the Islamic Republic of Iran, according to addendum 2 to article 295 and article 226 of ‎the Islamic penal code, if someone murders another on the assumption that the victim ‎was “vajeb al-ghatl” [literally, „necessary to be killed“ ], he will not be tried for first-‎degree murder. Based on these laws, judges convict murderers who have committed ‎honor killings on the assumption that the murdered woman has committed adultery not to ‎death or life imprisonment, but rather to pay the “dia” [blood money ]. As such, legal ‎incentives, protected by judges in the area of implementation, are given to men who are ‎accused of killing women. This must be noted as the most important factor behind the ‎rise in the number of honor killings in Iran. „
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