“Iranian Kurdish brothers behead their sister in honor killing,” Ekurd Daily, December 2, 2020:
SNE, Iranian Kurdistan,— A 31-year-old Kurdish woman in Sne (Sanandaj) city in Iranian Kurdistan has been killed by her family for what it is referred as “honor reasons.”
According to Hengaw Organization, which reports on human rights abuses in the Iranian Kurdistan, the young woman identified as Sargul Habibi, 31-year-from village of Sorkhedzaj (Suvraze), a few kilometers from Sne in Iranian Kurdistan, was beaten by her brothers on excuses of honor and was then brutally beheaded.
Sargul Habibi was recently detained by the police accused of having relationship with a young man, but both were released a day later, the watchdog said.
Sargul Habibi’s body was buried on Monday, in Muhammadi Cemetery of Sne in complete silence and without any funerals .
Even two days after the brutal murder of a young woman in Sne by her brothers, the judiciary has not yet made any official statement on the matter and none of the young woman’s brothers have been prosecuted or detained by the police
According to statistics registered in Statistics and Documentation Data Center of Hengaw Human Rights Organization, during past 9 months, at least 4 women in Iranian Kurdistan have been killed by their relatives on the excuses of honor.
Honor killings are a common feature in traditional Kurdistan, where women who are deemed to have dishonored the family by associating with men who are not immediate relatives are killed by a relative….
SNE, Iranian Kurdistan,— A 31-year-old Kurdish woman in Sne (Sanandaj) city in Iranian Kurdistan has been killed by her family for what it is referred as “honor reasons.”
According to Hengaw Organization, which reports on human rights abuses in the Iranian Kurdistan, the young woman identified as Sargul Habibi, 31-year-from village of Sorkhedzaj (Suvraze), a few kilometers from Sne in Iranian Kurdistan, was beaten by her brothers on excuses of honor and was then brutally beheaded.
Sargul Habibi was recently detained by the police accused of having relationship with a young man, but both were released a day later, the watchdog said.
Sargul Habibi’s body was buried on Monday, in Muhammadi Cemetery of Sne in complete silence and without any funerals .
Even two days after the brutal murder of a young woman in Sne by her brothers, the judiciary has not yet made any official statement on the matter and none of the young woman’s brothers have been prosecuted or detained by the police
According to statistics registered in Statistics and Documentation Data Center of Hengaw Human Rights Organization, during past 9 months, at least 4 women in Iranian Kurdistan have been killed by their relatives on the excuses of honor.
Honor killings are a common feature in traditional Kurdistan, where women who are deemed to have dishonored the family by associating with men who are not immediate relatives are killed by a relative….
