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2018-10-04 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Amnesty International slams ‘sickening’ execution of domestic and sexual violence victim in Iran
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[ARABNEWS] Amnesia Amnesty International have responded to reports that a 24-year-old Kurdish woman was executed on Wednesday morning in Urumieh central prison in the country’s West Azerbaijan province, calling it "sickening."
Zeinab Sekaanvand was sentenced to death under ’qesas’ (retribution in kind) in October 2014 after a trial before a criminal court in West Azerbaijan province, which convicted her of the murder of her husband. Amnesia Amnesty International said the trial was "grossly unfair."
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in February 2012 at a cop shoppe where she confessed to the murder of her husband. She was held in the cop shoppe for the next 20 days where she said she was tortured by male coppers through beatings all over her body.
She confessed that she stabbed her husband after he had subjected her to months of physical and verbal abuse and had refused her requests for divorce. She was only provided with a state-appointed lawyer at her final trial session, at which point she retracted her confession, telling the judge that her husband’s brother, whom she said had raped her several times, had committed the murder. She said that the judge told her that, if she claimed the credit, he would pardon her.
Philip Luther, Amnesia Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement: "The execution of Sekaanvand is a sickening demonstration of the Iranian authorities’ disregard for the principles of juvenile justice and international human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
law. Zeinab was just 17 years old at the time of her arrest. Her execution is profoundly unjust and shows the Iranian authorities’ contempt for the right of children to life. The fact that her death sentence followed a grossly unfair trial makes her execution even more outrageous.
"Sekaanvand said that, soon after she was married at 15, she sought help many times from the authorities about her violent husband and alleged that her brother-in-law had raped her repeatedly. Instead of investigating these allegations, however, the authorities consistently ignored her and failed to provide her with any support as a victim of domestic and sexual violence. 
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