Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Iran: Man stabs, kills wife in western Hamedan

A man stabbed and killed his wife in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on 15 October. Leila Shakiba, 39, was a mother of two and a resident of Hamedan. “Leila and her husband have had problems for years. Her husband had repeatedly been threatening her with murder. However, she still preferred to live together for the sake of her children”, a women’s rights activist in Sanandaj told the...

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