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A court in the eastern province of Khorasan - Razaví has executed four individuals for a crime that shook a rural enclave last October.
A judge had concluded that Ruhollah Javidi Rad, Mohammad Sayadi Baghansgani, Mohammad Hosseini and Mohammad Watandoost, all with criminal records, had kidnapped a couple of mountaineers, had stabbed and gagged the boy, and then
raped
the boy.
his wife in front of him.
"Kidnapping", "rape", "threats" and "failure to help" were the charges against the culprits, identified and captured days later in different parts of Iran, and who
became known as the 'Fariman hyenas'
, name of the region where the event occurred.
There is Mount Dal, one of the best known pilgrimage sites for the large community of Iranian climbers.
To get out early to the top, many of them spend the night in tents.
According to local media, the night before the two hikers had caught the attention of the criminals, who waited for the couple to return from the top to assault it.
In a clear minority, neither she nor he, restrained with bridles and wounded in the neck, could do anything
.
With the husband arrested, the criminals, masked, approached the young woman, twenty years old.
They raped her, forcing her husband to see everything, and they left.
After releasing the ties, the couple went to the police.
The reporting of crimes of a sexual nature is conditioned by the criminal offense that embraces them: 'zena' covers both adultery and premarital fornication, which leads to the possibility that
a rape is interpreted as a crime also committed by the victim
, being able to act as a deterrent for the complaint.
In addition, provincial courts, made up of five male judges, deal with rape cases, which lawyers believe may inhibit some victims.
This system faltered in the wake of the Iranian 'Me Too' explosion.
Late last year, Iranian social media was filled with complaints against local celebrities, some of whom were accused of serious sexual abuse.
Although unknown,
Keyvan Emamverdi
, a
Tehrani
bookseller singled out for several women, was arrested and could face capital punishment for poisoning and sexually abusing several women.
The same Police invited the victims to report.
That case opened a heated debate on the use of the death penalty for rapists, in a country with a penal code based on the 'sharia', or religious law, criticized by pro-human rights organizations for its harshness.
That discussion has now been reopened although, this time,
the majority position was in favor of the execution of the 'hyenas'
.
Crimes like the one in Fariman are not common in Iran, so its uniqueness, scene, and abundance of evidence have contributed to this result.
Last January, the Government approved a draft law cooked for more than eight years.
The so-called Law for the Protection, Dignity and Safety of Women against Violence, which must still receive the green light from Parliament and the Guardian Council of the Constitution, aims to improve the protection of women and better attend to cases of this kind.
Critics warn that, despite this, the rule does not resolve potential cases of abuse in the family.
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