Human Rights Source: 52 Children in Iranian Kurdish Areas Committed Suicide in 2021
According to a human rights website report, 244 citizens in Iranian Kurdish areas ended their lives through suicide in 2021, of whom 52 were children.
The human rights organization Hengaw, which covers news and reports from Iranian Kurdish areas, wrote that of the total Kurdish citizens who died by suicide during this period, 106 were women and 138 were men, and the reasons for these suicides were mostly cited as “family disputes” and “poverty and unemployment.”
According to this report, of the 52 children (individuals under 18 years old) who ended their lives through suicide in the past solar year, 29 were girls and 23 were boys, and 11 of them were under 14 years old.
No official statistics on suicide in Iran have been released since the beginning of 1400 (Iranian calendar). Taghi Rastamnavaadi, head of the country’s social affairs organization, reported in December 1399 (December 2020) without referring to precise figures, that there was an increase in suicide among individuals under 18 years old and over 60 years old in Iran.
In recent months, coinciding with the worsening coronavirus situation in the country, numerous reports of teenage suicides in Iran have been published. These statistics indicate a decline in the suicide age in Iran, and among the reasons cited are “economic poverty” and “social and family disorder.”
Etemad newspaper also reported in December of last year, quoting an informed source in Iran’s Forensic Medicine Organization, that the suicide rate from the beginning of 1399 compared to the same period of the previous year increased by 4.2 percent.
Based on forensic medicine statistics, in 1399, on average 15 people died daily in Iran due to suicide.
Source: Radio Farda
