Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran executed prisoner Kioumars Zarghami at Saqqez Prison, in Kurdistan province, on 5 March over the "premeditated murder" of his wife. On 8 June 2021, the burnt body of Zarghami's wife, Golaleh

Marefat Karimi, a 29-year-old woman, was killed by her husband in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, in north-western Iran, on 16 February. Karimi's husband beat and strangled her after she

Iranian media outlets reported on 17 December that a man, with the help of his wife, shot dead his brother's 48-year-old wife in a village in the Bilvar district of Kermanshah province, western

A man killed his ex-wife named Katayoun Aminian with multiple stab wounds in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 3 December. Reportedly, Aminian had an argument with her husband and separated from

A man in Iran's western Kermanshah province has killed his 50-year-old wife named Goljamin Najafi on 10 July. "Goljamin Najafi, a mother of three children who was born in October 1971, married Ali

A young woman named Zhila Zarei has been stabbed to death by her ex-husband in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, on 26 June. The ex-husband, identified as A.A., has fled after committing the

A man has killed his wife named Sargol Akbari in Hassan Abad neighbourhood of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 8 June. Akbari, 42, was a mother of three and is killed in what has been described as

A man has killed his wife in Surkal village in western Iran's Kermanshah province. The identity of the 43-year-old victim is not yet known. "The killer is a 48-year-old man who had fled after the

A man has shot and killed a young woman in Kermanshah on 4 November, after she refused to marry him. A man identified as Sasan K. killed Arezou Olfati, a young woman from Kermanshah, near the