A 19-year-old woman and mother of two, Jana Sadouei, was killed by her husband in the village of Tarimish in Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province, on 16 May.
An informed source said Sadouei had been involved in family disputes with her husband for the past two years, and that her husband, Mehdi, killed her by inflicting severe blows to her head.
After the killing, the husband tried to portray her death as suicide in an attempt to evade judicial prosecution, the source added.
Sadouei’s killing is another case of femicide and deadly violence against women in Iran, where women continue to face serious risks amid the absence of effective legal protection, social silence and entrenched structural inequalities.
Women’s rights activists have repeatedly warned that the lack of support mechanisms for women exposed to violence leaves them defenceless against killing and other forms of domestic violence.
