Deputy of family court: Women are subjugated to legal violence

Iran Press News: Translation by Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi

Fatemeh Asadi, the deputy of the family courts in a ceremony commemorating International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women said that the women of Iran are subjugated by legal violence. Referring to article 1379 of the civil code, Ms. Asadi said: “In the text of this statute, parents themselves can and should discipline their children within the boundries of common law and social influence. Our country’s written laws have statutes that not only do not protect women but specifically in fact exist in order to justify and cause more violence against women. What can be expected of a battered child that grows up only to beat his own children and assault his wife? The laws explicitly mention common law and social influence over and over however we do not seem to have any written common law, especially for life in big cities and suburbs; in these place common law has shifted and one cannot exactly decipher the exactitude of such guidelines. In all countries around the world one can find violence against women in one form or another however protective laws for women exist in those countries and are enforced vigorously and equitably.”