Human Rights Source: 52 children committed suicide in Kurdish areas of Iran in 2021

According to a human rights website, 244 citizens in the Kurdish regions of Iran committed suicide in 2021, and 52 of them were children.

The human rights organization Hengaw, which covers news and reports from the Kurdish regions of Iran, wrote that of the total number of Kurdish citizens who died by suicide during this period, 106 were women and 138 were men, and the reasons for these suicides were often stated to be "family disputes" and "poverty and unemployment."

According to this report, of the 52 children (under 18 years of age) who committed suicide last year, 29 were girls and 23 were boys, and 11 of them were under 14 years of age.

No official statistics on suicide have been published in Iran since the beginning of 1400. In February 2020, Taghi Rostamvandi, head of the country's Social Affairs Organization, reported an increase in suicides among people under the age of 18 and over the age of 60 in Iran, without citing exact statistics.

In recent months, as the coronavirus situation in the country has become more critical, there have been numerous reports of teenage suicides in Iran. These statistics indicate a decrease in the age of suicide in Iran, and among the reasons cited are "economic poverty" and "social and family disorders."

In February of last year, the Etemad newspaper reported, citing an informed source in the Iranian Forensic Medicine Organization, that the suicide rate had increased by 4.2 percent since the beginning of 2020 compared to the same period last year.

According to forensic statistics, in 2019, an average of 15 people in Iran lost their lives to suicide every day.

Source: Radio Farda