Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Young woman murdered by family in alleged ‘honour killing’

Sonya Dehghan, a young woman, has been murdered by her family in an alleged “honour killing” in Sardasht, in western Iran, on 13 January.A source in Sardasht told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that “The 24-year- old Sonia Dehghan, who had recently separated from her second husband, was living with her 6- year-old son in the old house of her grandparents in Sardasht....

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