Goli Kouhkan, 25, on death row for seven years for killing her abusive husband, has until December to settle with the victim’s family
  • perestroika@slrpnk.netEnglish
    16·
    13 hours ago

    About the donation drive: it seems legit and I encourage people to help her.

    I checked the background of the Qasim Child Foundation and they’re a registered charity in Australia since 2020. Here’s one of their letters from 2022 to the Australian parliament, asking Australia to use its influence on Iran. The director of the foundation, Mehdi Ghatei, is a real person living in Australia and originating from Iran.

    What I think about the case: if a person has been “married off” as a child, not because of her wishes, indeed against her informed consent, has tried returning to her parents only to be sent away to an abusive husband, and has subsequently got into a fight with her husband after he harmed her and their child - a court should not convict of murder, but at most “provoked homicide” (if self defense is ruled out).

    Extracting confessions without a lawyer present, getting signatures from a person who cannot read (what society fails to teach reading and writing?) - all of this is complete bollocks too, of course. But in the state of Iran, so many things are systematically borked that one loses count. :(

    P.S.

    Blood money might be a matter of negotiation. The family of her husband might even reconsider if offered a tangible large sum short of their demands instead of mere blood, which benefits nobody.

      • perestroika@slrpnk.netEnglish
        5·
        7 hours ago

        No problem, it was easy. :)

        P.S.

        I notice that some people (perhaps special rapporteur Mai Sato) have explained her situation to the office of the UN high commissioner for human rights, and the UN has published a call for Iran to intervene in her case.

        Iran must halt execution of Goli Kouhkan domestic violence survivor: UN experts

        I hope the word of the OHCHR suffices - that Iranian officials take note and prevent her execution.

        If I were an Iranian official, no matter how conservative or stuck in old ways, I would remember what happened after Mahsa Amini / Jina Amini was killed, and would carefully steer away from repeating any similar chain of events.

  • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
    351·
    19 hours ago

    On the day her husband was killed, Kouhkan found him beating her son, then aged five. She called a cousin for help. When he arrived a fight broke out which resulted in the death of her husband.

    Man slaughter at worst. No jury in a civilized country would condemn but Based on all the example court cases in the article this country hates women and is just looking for any excuse to murder them even if you didn’t do it.

  • porcoesphino@mander.xyzEnglish
    365·
    20 hours ago

    for the killing of her abusive husband

    A pretty big part to miss

    I’m not saying that makes the situation just, just that it comes a long way in explaining the why

    • loutr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      32·
      19 hours ago

      Yeah, she was a victim of state and family-sanctionned pedophilia and child abuse, and she was trying to protect her son. In a sane country she would have been acquitted or given a slap on the wrist.

      • porcoesphino@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Yeah, great. Then include that

        It seems like a pretty reasonable interpretation to me (but also uncertain from the information in the article), just an unreasonable omission of detail from the source

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    505·
    22 hours ago

    Iran is a primitive society based on superstition and where 1500 year old barbaric laws are upheld.
    The same goes for all other countries that use Sharia law or other laws based on superstition or tradition.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        63·
        12 hours ago

        Doesn’t change the fact that the society has laws build on ancient superstition without reason.
        A society build on primitives rules that follow such rules is primitive per definition.
        Because the practice of such primitive laws guide all activity in a society.

        What about death penalty to the victim is not primitive and barbaric?
        How is a society that execute primitive barbaric laws not primitive?
        Is it because they can make nice cookies?

        How does this complexity you mention change that it is a primitive society?
        Is it because it is not PC to call a culture primitive? Because then I’ve got news for you, some cultures are very obviously more primitive than others.

    • Doorbook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      6 hours ago

      Iran is a primitive society based on superstition and where 1500 year old barbaric laws

      Let me choose the most modern laws where you get death sentence by a white cop because you are black. Or the laws that looks at a genocide and then decide to send more weapon to the one who is committing the genocide killing at least 70k people mostly women and children that you pretend to care about.

      You can disagree with laws, but claiming they are “primitive” and “barbaric laws” is a stupid, racist, and ignorant statement.