Janeh Choupani, a 22-year-old woman from the village of Kuzehrash in Salmas, West Azerbaijan Province, has been killed by her father on the pretext of “defending honour”.

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that her father, Rouzbeh Choupani, strangled her to death in the family home on 27 July after a private video showing Choupani and a relative circulated on social media in recent days.

Authorities have reportedly arrested the father on charges of “premeditated murder” in a border region of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan Province.

Janeh Choupani was the mother of two young daughters.