夫殺害した児童婚の「花嫁」 絞首刑執行 イラン

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】イランで２０日、１８歳未満で結婚させられた夫を殺害し、約１０年前に死刑が確定した女性死刑囚が絞首刑に処された。人権団体が明らかにした。同死刑囚の恩赦を求める国際的なキャンペーンが展開されていた。（写真は資料写真）
　ノルウェーに拠点を置く人権団体イラン・ヒューマン・ライツ（ＩＨＲ）によると、首都テヘラン近郊カラジにある刑務所で同日早朝、サミラ・サブジアン死刑囚の刑が執行された。
　ノルウェーの人権団体ヘンガウも、サブジアン死刑囚の刑執行を確認した。同死刑囚は、西部ロレスターン州ホラマバード出身で、現在の年齢は２０代後半～３０代前半と推定される。
　ＩＨＲによると、サブジアン死刑囚は１５歳で結婚。１９歳の時に夫を殺害した容疑で逮捕され、その後死刑判決を受けた。親族によれば、夫から家庭内暴力を受けていた。
　同死刑囚には２人の子どもがいたが、逮捕されてからは今月に刑務所で最後の別れをするまで面会できていなかったという。
　国際人権団体アムネスティ・インターナショナルは、子どもの頃に強制的に結婚させられた女性に対する「冷然とした処刑」の報に「震撼（しんかん）」したと表明。
　国連人権高等弁務官事務所（ＯＨＣＨＲ）も、１５歳の時に強制的に結婚させられたサブジアン死刑囚の処刑は「驚きだ」とし、「イランに対し、死刑廃止を視野に入れた全死刑執行のモラトリアム（一時停止）を再度要請する」と述べた。
　イランの国内ではこれまでのところ、この処刑について報道されていない。
　ＩＨＲのマフムード・アミリモガッダム代表は「サミラさん（サブジアン死刑囚）は長年にわたる性差別、児童婚、家庭内暴力の犠牲者だ。きょう、無能で腐敗した（イランの）政権の殺人機械の犠牲となった」と語った。
　アムネスティ・インターナショナルによると、イランでは１１月だけで少なくとも１１５人の死刑が執行された。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/12/21-17:51）

Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an international campaign for clemency, rights groups said.
Samira Sabzian, who had been in prison for the past decade, was executed at dawn in Ghezel Hesar prison in the Tehran satellite city of Karaj, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) group said.
Her execution comes as concern grows over the numbers of people this year executed by Iran, where hundreds of people have been hanged mainly on drugs and murder charges, including more than a dozen women.
IHR said Sabzian was a child bride who had married her husband at the age of 15 and had been a victim of domestic violence, according to relatives.
The Hengaw rights group also confirmed the execution of the woman, now believed to be in her late 20s or early 30s, saying that she was originally from the city of Khorramabad in the western Lorestan province.
Amnesty International said it was horrified by the reports of the chilling execution, saying the mother of two was subjected to a forced and early marriage as a child.
The office of the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights said it was alarmed by the execution, saying Sabzian had been forced to marry her husband while aged 15.
We again urge Iran to establish a moratorium on all executions with a view to abolishing death penalty, it added.
The execution has so far not been reported by media inside Iran.
- 'Killing machine' -
Sabzian was arrested around a decade ago when she was aged 19 on charges of murdering her husband and then subsequently sentenced to death, IHR said.
She had two children who she had not seen after her arrest until a final meeting in prison earlier this month, IHR said.
Samira was a victim of years of gender apartheid, child marriage and domestic violence, and today she fell victim to the incompetent and corrupt regime's killing machine, said IHR director Mahmood-Amiry Moghaddam.
Rights groups have raised alarm over a surge in executions in Iran this year, with at least 115 people put to death in November alone according to Amnesty International.
The international community must urgently call on Iran's authorities to immediately establish an official moratorium on executions, Amnesty said.
The British government had called on Iran to spare Sabzian's life.
Samira is a victim of child marriage... Iran must cease its appalling treatment of women and girls, junior foreign minister Tariq Ahmad said on X, formerly Twitter, late Tuesday.
According to IHR, 18 women have now been executed in Iran this year, including Samira Sabzian.
Rights groups have repeatedly said Iran's sharia-based murder laws -- based on a principle of qesas (retribution in kind) -- fail to take into account potentially mitigating factors such as abuse or domestic violence in such cases.
Iran has executed eight men in cases related to the protests that erupted in September 2022 but rights groups argue that the surge in hangings on all charges is aimed at instilling fear in the wider population.
According to IHR, Iran executed 582 people in 2022 but this year's total is expected to be significantly higher.