Iranian gets 8 years for beheading teen wife

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 18, 2023 9:20 pm

TEHRAN, Iran: 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 on Wednesday.

Mona Heidari, 17, was killed in February 2022 by her husband and brother-in-law in Ahvaz, capital of the southwestern province of Khuzestan.

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