An Iranian man has been jailed for more than eight years after decapitating his wife and displaying her head in public, in a case that shocked the country, the judiciary said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, Iran –
Video that emerged later of her smiling husband parading her decapitated head in the street sparked an outpouring of grief and outrage in the Islamic republic. The family of Heidari had pardoned the killer rather than demanding qesas — Iran’s Islamic law of retribution. “The second defendant in the case, Heidar Heidarnava, was sentenced to 45 months in prison for complicity in intentional homicide,” he added.
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