Hengaw: 44 women killed and 107 women committed suicide in Kurdish-populated areas of Iran over one year
According to a human rights website report on Thursday, December 4th, 44 women and girls have been killed in Kurdish-populated areas of Iran and at least 107 have committed suicide.
Hengaw, a human rights website covering news from Kurdish-populated areas of Iran, reported on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women that from early December of last year to December of this year, 44 cases of women and girls’ murders in Kurdish-populated areas have been confirmed, most of which were committed by “close individuals.”
According to the report, among the four Kurdish-populated provinces of Iran, the highest suicide rate with 14 cases belonged to Kermanshah province and then to Kurdistan province.
According to the report, 11 of these murders were motivated by “honor,” 22 due to “family disputes,” two due to “rejection of marriage proposals,” two due to “psychological problems,” four motivated by “theft” and two due to “financial disputes.”
The report also stated that at least 107 cases of women’s suicides in Kurdish-populated areas were recorded over the past year, with the highest number by a significant margin being 52 cases in West Azerbaijan province.
According to Hengaw’s report, family disputes with 73 cases were cited as the most common reason for women’s suicides, and 64 of these women ended their lives through hanging.
No official statistics on suicide in Iran have been published since the beginning of 2021.
Taghi Rastmanvandi, head of the country’s social affairs organization, stated in December 2020 without referring to precise figures that suicide among people under 18 years old and over 60 years old in Iran had increased.
In recent months, as the coronavirus crisis worsened in the country, numerous reports of teenage suicides in Iran have been published. These statistics indicate a decrease in the age of suicide in Iran, and the reasons cited include “economic poverty” and “social and family disarray.”
Etemad newspaper also reported in December of last year, citing an informed source in Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization, that the suicide rate from the beginning of 2020 compared to the same period last year had increased by 4.2 percent.
Based on legal medicine statistics, in 2020 an average of 15 people per day in Iran lost their lives due to suicide.
Source: Radio Farda
