{"id":1461,"date":"2025-06-12T22:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T22:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2025-06-12T22:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T22:25:46","slug":"who-was-kobra-rezaei-identity-of-the-young-woman-killed-in-pishva-revealed-her-mutilated-body-found-in-tehran-after-50-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/2025\/06\/12\/who-was-kobra-rezaei-identity-of-the-young-woman-killed-in-pishva-revealed-her-mutilated-body-found-in-tehran-after-50-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Was \u201cKobra Rezaei\u201d? Identity of the Young Woman Killed in Pishva Revealed: Her Mutilated Body Found in Tehran after 50 days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Rezvan Moghaddam:   On Sunday, June 8, 2025, the Pishva police commander announced the discovery of a<br>young woman\u2019s body and the arrest of her killer. In reports published by outlets like<br>ISNA, no mention was made of her name, age, nationality, or the motive behind the<br>killing. The victim was only referred to by a vague, sanitized phrase: \u201ca young woman.\u201d<br>But now, independent sources have confirmed her identity: the young woman was<br>Kobra Rezaei, also known as Shaqayeq, a 26-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan<br>who had gone missing 50 days earlier.<br>Kobra was one of thousands of Afghan migrant women in Iran\u2014women who live under<br>the shadows of legal discrimination, daily violence, and systemic silencing. Her<br>mutilated body was found nearly two months later in Tehran, but still, no motive has<br>been disclosed, the killer\u2019s identity remains hidden, and no state institution has taken<br>responsibility for protecting her life.<br>Initially, the event was reduced to a brief police report announcing the arrest of the killer<br>through intelligence operations. But the real story\u2014who was killed, why, and how\u2014was<br>effectively erased from public record. Now that Kobra\u2019s identity has been revealed, the<br>silences in the official narrative appear even more horrific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Stop Honor Killings Campaign declares:<br>\uf0b7 This killing was not an ordinary \u201ccriminal incident\u201d; it was femicide.<br>\uf0b7 Erasing the victim\u2019s name and identity from the news is a form of state and media<br>violence.<br>\uf0b7 The victim was a defenseless asylum-seeking woman, and her killing must be<br>seen as a symbol of migrant women&#8217;s powerlessness in Iran\u2019s judicial system.<br>\uf0b7 We demand accountability from official institutions, the public naming of the<br>perpetrator, investigation of the motive, and full legal transparency in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The drip-feed of news around Kobra Rezaei\u2019s (Shaqayeq\u2019s) case delays justice, denies the public<br>the awareness needed for prevention and accountability, and erases the victim from collective<br>memory. This incomplete and censored narrative enables the repetition of violence, allows<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>institutions to evade responsibility, and silences the pain of the victim\u2019s family, the migrant<br>community, and women\u2019s rights advocates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1>#StopHonorKillingsCampaign<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#SafetyForWomen<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#PishvaGirl<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#KobraRezaei #Shaqayeq<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#GenderBasedViolence<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#NoToFemicide<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#JusticeForWomen<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#NoToHonorKillings<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#ThisIsNotAFamilyDisputeThisIsFemicide<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#NoToCensorship<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#SayHerName<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#StopHonorKillings<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#Femicide<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#VoiceOfVictims<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#WomenHaveTheRightToLive<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#NoToViolenceAgainstWomen<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#IslamicRepublicIsResponsibleForWomensKillings<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1>#NoToMisogynisticCulture<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow news in the Stop honor Killings Campaign Telegram group:<br>https:\/\/t.me\/stophonorkilling<br>Support the Stop Honor Killings Campaign with Your Donations via PayPal:<br>https:\/\/paypal.me\/stophonorkillings?country.x=US&amp;locale.x=en_US<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stop honor Killings Campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rezvan Moghaddam: On Sunday, June 8, 2025, the Pishva police commander announced the discovery of ayoung woman\u2019s body and the arrest of her killer. In reports published by outlets likeISNA, no mention was made&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,6],"tags":[21,305,284,403,172,199,406],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stophonorkillings.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}