Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Husband kills wife in Iran’s northwestern Sanandaj

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 "family dispute". The husband is said to have been addicted to drugs and had beaten her several times before.

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