Faezeh Malekinia Archives - KHRN

October 7, 2021

Iran: Kurdish women activists protest murder of young woman

A group of Kurdish women activists gathered before the courthouse of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 6 October, protesting against the murder of Faezeh Malekinia by her father. Faezeh Malekinia was a 22-year-old single woman from the Korkoreh (also Dowlatabad) village of Sanandaj. On 3 October, she died of burns in Kowsar Hospital in Sanandaj. Reportedly, she wanted to marry someone else after separating from her husband, but...

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