Domestic violence; A woman was repeatedly beaten by her husband in Tehran
A woman in Tehran was stabbed to death by her husband. The husband was in custody for beating his wife before the incident and committed the crime after being released on bail. This 56-year-old woman says, “When I went to the police station after the first attempt and protested my husband’s release, they calmly said, ‘What should I do? He is your husband and we can’t do anything.’ Where can a woman go except to her own home? How can I go to my home when I don’t have security from my husband? I have been lying on the bed for nearly 2 months with a cut hand, a paralyzed hand, one eye and a bruised face. How can I afford to live?”
According to HRANA news agency, quoting Rokna, Ashraf Sadat Hosseini, 56, who is currently lying on the bed with a face full of stitches and lines, a blind eye, the fingers and palm of one hand amputated, one hand immobile, and many stab and machete blows to the head, speaks with difficulty on the bed and talks about the day of terror, the day when he only felt pain and saw his hands becoming machetes and his severed fingers lying in a corner, a day full of nightmares! The sound of breaking glass is still in his ears. There was no one to save him until he closed his eyes forever, imagining death.
It was a miracle that he survived, and now he is alive, but perhaps the fate ahead of him is no worse than death. He used to work for himself, and now he can't even do his own things. He is afraid of his own home and doesn't want to set foot in it again:
According to HRANA News Agency, citing Rokna, this woman, whose name is Ashraf Sadat Hosseini, begins her speech by saying that fear of my husband has caused me to look out the window every moment, and I am afraid that my husband will break the window and come at me with a machete.
Ashraf Sadat Hosseini, who was the target of multiple blows by her husband in a bitter and deadly tragedy, said: “I married Mohsen 27 years ago. During these years, he was a mean and quarrelsome person. Ever since my husband started using drugs, his behavior has become worse than before. He started slandering me and our daughter. Every day when I came home from work, he would say untrue things and make my life hell.”
The woman added: “It was early September of this year when I got home from work, he started slandering me again, and when I protested why you were making such ugly and false accusations against me, he beat me up and smashed my head and chest with a vase. I complained to him and he was arrested, but his sister released my husband on bail. When my husband was released on bail, which was a pay slip, I was at my mother’s house, texting my children to tell your mother to come home and that he would leave the house himself. But we didn’t know that my husband was planning to kill me.”
Ms. Hosseini continued: “One of my children got coronavirus, so I went to my house. After 10 days, Mohsen called and came to the front door under the pretext that he wanted to take off his boots and shoes. When I went to the front door, I told him to go into the yard and take off his shoes, but he insisted that I go into the yard. At one point, he threw me on the ground in the yard and put his knee on my throat, saying that you have to give consent, because he thought my son might return home. He ran away in fear. After that, I went to the police and forensics departments and filed a complaint against him.”
He stated: “At 7:00 PM on November 15, Ashraf Sadat Hosseini returned from work to their home on North Isar Street in the Farahzad district. She was at home when she heard a sound from inside the yard. Fear came over her and she suspected that her husband had come to her again for revenge. The doorbell rang. Ashraf Sadat Hosseini ran to the back door in panic. Her husband, changing his voice, introduced himself as Saeed, Mohsen’s nephew. Ashraf Sadat was scared and did not open the door and was only thinking about running away. The terrified woman threw on a veil to find a way out through the window, which was blocked by the kitchen window net. Mohsen started cursing and broke the window. Before running away from the house, Ashraf Sadat called his son and informed him of his father’s attack on the house.”
Ashraf Sadat said about her husband's attack: "Mohsen knew that no one was home and he intended to kill me. I quickly left the house and when I reached the door frame, Mohsen got down from the stool and first hit me with the heel of his machete, which made me fall to the ground and I could no longer escape. I was in the alley, there were three young men in front of the door, I was lying on the ground when Mohsen hit me hard with the machete to my head and face. I tried to block the blows with my hand. The machete went up and down and I blocked the blows with my hand until one of the neighboring women pushed him and Mohsen ran away, certain that he had killed me. I don't know how they took me to the garden and pulled a tent over me. My son arrived and I don't remember anything else."
Alireza said about this bitter case that happened to his mother: “My father had problems with my mother from the very beginning, but since 2007, my father and my mother have been at odds, and the differences have escalated until two months ago, my father broke my mother’s head and ribs with a flowerpot and even broke my sister’s nose, who are twins, because of her beliefs. My father is addicted to drugs and takes psychedelic pills and always says bad things and slanders to my mother and sister. He had a special delusion. He threatened to kill me and he himself used cold weapons such as machete, axe, knife and a crowbar in the house, and he attacked my mother with this homemade machete.”
He added: “When I reached my mother’s head, my mother’s pulse was not beating, and my father was certain that he had killed my mother because he had not hit her again. My mother’s right hand and finger were on the ground, and we took them to the hospital for a transplant, but my mother’s two fingers and ring were not in the alley, and when my mother regained consciousness in the hospital, we realized that my father had taken my mother’s finger and ring with him.”
Alireza said: “The blows were so heavy and strong that the broken handle of the machete was left at the scene. Believe me, an ISIS member would not do this to another ISIS member. From that day on, I was always ready to fight and I would not even let my sister go anywhere alone because I knew she would come after us again. No father would do this to his wife and child. If he wanted to kill, he would have killed her like the little girl her father killed in the north, not to let his mother suffer. My mother had remained silent all these years because she wanted to preserve her honor.”
Ashraf Sadat Hosseini addresses Ebrahim Raisi about the treatment of her husband and supporting a suffering woman: “Why shouldn’t the judiciary, the government, and the system support a woman who wants to live with honor and dignity? Why shouldn’t these people be stopped and the law not be strict on them if my husband comes back to me after the first attempt? When I went to the police station and protested my husband’s release, they calmly said, ‘What should we do? He is your husband and we can’t do anything!’ Where can a woman go except to her own home? How can I go to my home when I don’t have security from my husband? I have been lying on the bed for nearly 2 months with a cut hand, one hand paralyzed, one eye and face bruised, how can I afford to live? Last year, in order to improve my job situation, I tried with all the difficulties I had at home and at work, and I got a law degree to support myself and my family, but this man did not deserve me and his children.
Regarding the costs of his mother's surgery, Alireza says that we sold everything we had so that we could pay for my mother's transplant and treatment, but the costs are high and we have to go to the hospital again and my mother will be monitored. I ask people to pray for my mother's health.
Source: HRANA
