خلاصة:
In Iran's legal system and according to the Islamic Penal Code, which is based on Shia jurisprudence, the punishment for intentional homicide is generally retribution. An example of murder is honor killing or honor killing. Honor killings are actually murders in which a woman is killed by her father, brother, husband, or a male relative for the purpose of protecting her honor. The statistics in the country's official media say that in the last two years, from June to the end of June , at least women were killed in the country; That is, on average, every four days, a woman is killed by one of the men in her family in different parts of the country, and of these cases are the perpetrators of honor killings, and in the first months of this year, cases of honor killings were reported. The black figure of these cases is much more. In order to deal with this crisis, we first examined the factors and international measures and the situation of the Middle East countries in order to be able to provide a suitable solution to this issue. Is.
ملخص الجهاز:
An Analytical Study of Honor Killings, Factors, and Solutions for Combating Them from a Legal Perspective Authors: Morteza Afsharpour1, Azadeh Tadayonfard2, Mahdieh Bourbour Ezdari3, Maryam Soheil Beygi4, Zahra Mir Alaee5 1- Law student at Islamic Azad University, Tehran East Branch morteza.
1-2 ) Social and cultural factors Components affecting honor killings include tribal customs, informal social control and supervision, suspicion, forced marriages, violence, preserving the honor and chastity of women as the honor and pride of the tribe and family, patriarchal society, the political structure of nomadic society and the power of men, unconditional obedience to the orders of the tribal chief, level of education and public awareness, tribal fanaticism, age gap in marriage, occupation, social status, enforcement of law tribal custom instead of referring to official courts, the imposition of disciplinary punishments in traditional and tribal societies, mass communication tools and media, travel, changes in the geographical environment, etc.
However, in general, what is derived from Islamic jurisprudence and the Islamic Penal Code is that the scope of honor-based ghayrat is certainly more limited than including acts of violence, punishment, or even expelling the woman from the home; for example, a man who has given his wife a revocable divorce and has paid her dowry (mahr) and rights, and now the woman lives in the same house until the end of the waiting period (idda) and receives alimony from her former husband, yet the woman commits an illicit relationship with a man, and this is done publicly and openly, such that a valid number of just witnesses observe her crime, according to Islamic Sharia, only if the woman's crime is proven in court can the former husband expel her from the house to implement the prescribed punishment (hadd) and then return her to the same house so that the idda period is completed.