00:00Mona Heydari was a 17 year old girl from Iran.
00:05She was forced to marry her own cousin at the age of 14.
00:10She escaped from her homeland to Turkey to be safe there,
00:15but her father and her father-in-law
00:20asked the help from the embassy in Turkey
00:22to force her back to Iran.
00:24And the tragedy happened in Iran.
00:26Her husband beheaded her head,
00:29took her head in the street.
00:45It is 21st century and I cannot believe
00:47that such a thing is happening in my homeland
00:50under Sharia law.
00:52The women are not allowed to choose their own lifestyle.
00:55Women get killed, get lashes,
00:59beheaded.
01:00This is happening in front of the eyes of the world.
01:03That scares me.
01:04I cannot stop thinking about this smile
01:07was in the face of the man who killed,
01:12who killed the innocent girl
01:15and the laws in Iran supporting him.
01:18The Iranian officials are actually now saying
01:21that the victim is here is Mona Heydari's husband.
01:25Why?
01:26Because Mona betrayed him
01:29and went to Turkey.
01:31So that is why this is a family problem
01:34and the husband were trying to defend his honor
01:37and the honor of the family.
01:59A woman who removed her hair from her head
02:02and put it on her head
02:03is considered to be a terrorist.
02:05She is a terrorist.
02:06She is a terrorist.
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02:24She is a terrorist.
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02:25She is a terrorist.
02:26She is a terrorist.
02:27She is a terrorist.
02:28A man who removed her hijab
02:29received 24 years prison sentence.
02:32But a father who actually beheaded his daughter
02:35received only nine years prison sentence.
02:38And that is why the honor killings
02:40is happening regularly in Iran.
02:43When I heard that the officials said
02:46that honor killings is like something very small
02:49and they put the blame on women,
02:52it just, I was furious.
02:54I was like, wait a minute.
02:55In Iran, we are being killed, tortured.
02:58We received lashes, prison sentence
03:00in the name of Islamic laws.
03:02In the West, when we want to talk about it,
03:04people's like, shh, you're causing Islamophobia.
03:07Then where?
03:08Where we can talk about our dignity?
03:26It happened before.
03:28All those people who beheaded their daughter
03:31or who beheaded their wives,
03:33they get free after like five or six years.
03:36They get free and they go after their life.
03:38That is why I cry every day for Mona,
03:41for Romina, for Mobina, for Rehaneh.
03:44I want to name them because these are not numbers.
03:47These are not statistics to me.
03:49These are people like me.
03:50I could have been one of them.
03:52Iran is not a country.
03:54I could have been one of them.
03:56Iranian people are furious.
03:57Iranian women are crying every day
04:00because they don't have any media to talk about this.
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