Hengaw: 44 women were killed and 107 committed suicide in the Kurdish regions of Iran in one year
According to a human rights website, on Thursday, December 24, 44 women and girls were murdered in the Kurdish regions of Iran, and at least 107 committed suicide.
Hengaw, a human rights website that covers news from the Kurdish regions of Iran, reported in a report on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women that from early December last year to December this year, 44 cases of murder of women and girls in the Kurdish regions have been confirmed, most of them at the hands of "people close to them."
According to this report, among the four Kurdish provinces of Iran, the highest suicide rate, with 14 cases, was in Kermanshah province, followed by Kurdistan.
According to the report, 11 of these murders were motivated by "honor", 22 by "family disputes", two by "rejection of marriage proposals", two by "mental problems", four by "theft" and two by "financial disputes".
The report also states that during the past year, at least 107 cases of female suicide were recorded in Kurdish-populated areas, with the largest number of cases, by a large margin, occurring in West Azerbaijan province, with 52 cases.
According to the Hengaw report, family disputes were cited as the most common motive for women's suicide in 73 cases, and 64 of these women ended their lives by hanging themselves.
Since the beginning of 1400, official statistics on suicides in Iran have not been published.
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 critical, numerous reports of teenage suicides have been published in Iran. These statistics indicate a decrease in the age of suicide in Iran, and among the reasons for this have been stated to be "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
