Marziyeh Amirizadeh on Women’s Rights and Honor Killings in Iran

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0:00 In my country, I think it's a kind of brainwashing system because under Islam, they always try to educate men that they are the head. Either your father, brother, husband, and they should have control over women. And in Iran, for example, if a brother see that her sister has a girlfriend, they are allowed to kill her. And the government usually prefer families do the job for them. And that's why when they do such a they do kill their family members, their women, then the government would not give them capital charges. Why? They just keep them for a few years in prison and then

0:57 they would be released. And the the reason the Islamic governments like Iran do that because they're a kind of encouraging them that go ahead and do it, nothing will happen to you.