Iran: 16 women killed in one month

In Iran, 16 women and five children were killed, 11 women and seven children died under suspicious circumstances between August 21 and September 20, 2024.

News Center- The oppressive policies of the Islamic Republic of Iran pave the way for gender-based violence and femicide in the country. NuJINHA Persian compiled the data on femicide cases and suspicious deaths of women in Iran from local, national newspapers and news agencies from August 21, 2024 to September 20, 2024.

16 women and five children were killed, 11 women and seven children died under suspicious circumstances between August 21 and September 20, 2024, according to the data of NuJINHA Persian.

The data of the NuJINHA Persian is as follows:

August 21: An 80-year-old woman was killed by her granddaughter's fiancé in Tehran.

August 22: Dead body of one woman was found on Tehran’s Hakimiyeh highway.  

August 23: A woman was killed by her grandson in the city of Najafabad, Isfahan province.

August 24: 16-year-old child died under suspicious circumstances. The death of child was recorded as “suicide”.

August 25: A 17-year-old girl was killed by her father in the city of Darreh Shahr, Ilam province.

August 26: Dead bodies of two friends, identified as Mobina Khazaei (16) and Sonia (18) were found on Karaj-Mehrshahr railway.

August 27: a 65-year-old woman was brutally killed by her husband in Tehran.

August 27: A 20-year-old woman died under suspicious circumstances in Tehran. Her death was recorded as “suicide”.

August 31: Haniyeh Mursali, a resident of Mahabad, died under suspicious circumstances. Her death was recorded as “suicide”.

September 2: A nomad woman was killed along with her husband and 4-year-old son by unknown people.

September 4: Yasmin Rahmati, a music professor at Tehran University and a musician, was found shot dead in a house in northern Rasht.

September 5: Dead body of an elderly woman was found in the city of Mahan, Kerman province.

September 7: A 36-year-old woman was killed by her father in the name of “honor” in Ilam.

September 7: Nazanin Balochi (17) was killed by her cousin in the name of “honor” in the city of Nik Shahr, Sistan and Baluchestan province.

September 7: A 17-year-old girl identified as Roya Rigi died under suspicious circumstances in the city of Khash, Sistan and Baluchestan province. Her death was recorded as “suicide”.

September 8: One woman and her husband were found shot dead in the district of Livan, Golestan province.

September 8: A 36-year-old Afghan woman was killed by her husband in front of her child in the city of Baqershahr, Tehran province.

September 8: Soheila Memari, a lawyer, was killed by unknown people in the city of Malayer, Hamadan province.

September 8: A 40-year-old woman died under suspicious circumstances in the city of Mashhad.

September 9: Sara Deldar, a 32-year-old former political prisoner from northern Rasht, died due to multiple infections caused by pellet wounds sustained during the 2022 nationwide protests after being shot by Iranian security forces.

September 9: A middle-aged woman was killed by her husband in the city of Arak, Markazi province.

September 10: A woman identified as Narin Ravan died under suspicious circumstances in the village of Nachit, West Azerbaijan province.

September 10: An elderly woman was killed by an unknown person in the city of Ray, Tehran province.

September 10: a young woman identified as Maryam, a resident of Tehran, died under suspicious circumstances a day after her wedding ceremony.

September 11: The bodies of a three-year-old and six-month-old girls were found in a village of Akbarabad, Fars province, two days later being reported missing.

September 12: A 40-year-old woman was killed by her husband in Tehran.

September 15: An unidentified woman died after falling off a bridge on the Karun river.

September 15: One woman identified as Ronak (Jiran) Tosalipur, a resident of Andimeshk, was killed by a man after refusing his marriage proposal.

September 16: a man killed his wife, mother-in-law, and brother-in-law in the city of Bonab, East Azerbaijan province.

September 16: 17-year-old Yalda Rahimi died under suspicious circumstances in a village of Bagh-e Malek, a city in Khuzestan province.

September 17: A 17-year-old girl died under suspicious circumstances in Pehra two weeks after her marriage ceremony.

September 18: A 16-year-old girl identified as Heda Hakimi died under suspicious circumstances in the town of Shino, northwestern Iran. Her death was recorded as “suicide”

September 19: A 26-year-old woman died under suspicious circumstances after falling off a bridge of Imam Ali Highway.