An Iranian has been sentenced to nine years in jail for beheading his teenage daughter while asleep, local media reported on Friday.
The media also reported that the mother wanted the man to be executed.
Dubbed “honor” killing of 14-year-old Romina Ashrafi on May 21 sparked countrywide outrage, with the local media condemning “institutionalized violence” in the Arabic nation.
According to media, Romina was decapitated at the family home in the village of Talesh in the northern province of Gilan.
“Despite the judicial authorities’ insistence on a ‘special handling’ of the case, the verdict has terrified me and my family,” Rana Dashti, the mother, told ILNA news agency.
“I don’t want my husband to return to our village ever again,” she said, calling for the verdict to be reviewed and changed to “execution”.
The mother of the child said she now fears for the life of the rest of her family.
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Sources say Iran’s penal code does not lay down the death penalty for a father in cases that deal with filicide and the court can only sentence the accused to fines and jail time.
Romina is said to have run away after her father refused to allow her to marry a man 15 years her senior.
But she was detailed by the police and taken home, despite playing with a judge that she feared for life if returned.
The man Romina wanted to marry, Bahman Khavari has so far been sentenced to two years in prison, at the legal age of marriage for women in Iran is 13.
