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On the 25 November, Statment of Campain to Stop Honor Killings
“Orange The World” On November 25, 1960, the Mirabel sisters were assassinated by the Army Security Service in the Dominican Republic. Their “crime” was participating in political activities against the Dominican dictatorship. In recognition...
Iran – Boyerahmad: Zeinat, 14-killed by her brother,December 2019
Zeinat, a girl from Abadeh village, Lodab district, and Boyer-Ahmad city was killed by her brother after she complained of harassment by a neighborhood boy. Zeinat was being harassed and insulted by a boy...
Iran – Kermanshah: Somayeh Fathi, 18-killed by her father and brother,June 2020
Somayeh Fathi was killed by her father, brother, and other family members for what they called “honor killing.” She was married and was pregnant when she was forced to eat poison (rice pills). She...
Iran – Urmia: Ishrat Nikkhouei, 32-killed by her brother and father,ebruary 2021
Ishrat Nikkhouei was the mother of three children and hailed from the village of “Gangchin” in Urmia. Ishrat was recently forced to divorce her husband and live in her parents’ house due to the...
Iran – Kurdistan: Bayan Moradi and her sister Sahar Moradi,killed by Bayan’s husband-July 2021
In a park in the Hajiabad neighborhood of Sanandaj, two sisters, 40 years old Bayan Moradi, a mother of three children ages 18, 13 and 8, and her sister Sahar Moradi, were shot to...
Iran – Kurdistan: Homa Hajipour,killed by her husband-July 26, 2021
Homa Hajipour lived in Finland with her two children for several years. She returned to Iran to the city of Sardasht in Kurdistan to file for a legal divorce. On July 26, her husband...
Iran – Kurdistan: Wafa Abdullahzadeh, 42-killed by her brother,December 2020
Wafa Abdullahzadeh was a mother of two children. After divorcing her husband, she met a man and planned to remarry. Since the city of Sardasht is small and very traditional, the relationship was considered...
Iran – Sanandaj: Faezeh Maleki, 22-killed by her father,October 2021
Faezeh Maleki, 22 years old, was divorced from her husband and living with her father. She was set on fire by her father because she had a boyfriend. Her father tried to make Faezeh’s...
Iran – Kurdistan: Fereshteh Dehghan, 24-killed by her brother and cousin-January 14, 2021
Sonia (Fereshteh) was a child bride since the age of 13 and was recently divorced and living with her 6-year-old child in her grandparents’ house in Sardasht. Sonia worked in a hairdressing salon. On...
