this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2025
71 points (98.6% liked)

World News

655 readers
684 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be a decent person
  2. No spam
  3. Add the byline, or write a line or two in the body about the article.

Other communities of interest:

founded 4 months ago
MODERATORS
Deceptichum@quokk.au
Grainne@lemmy.dbzer0.com
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
71
A Woman Is Killed Every Two Days In Iran As 'Femicide' Spreads, RFE/RL Investigation Shows (www.rferl.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by Cat@ponder.cat to c/world@quokk.au
6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

According to an investigation by Radio Farda, at least 133 women and girls were killed in the last year for “honor” or other reasons by their husbands, fathers, and brothers – meaning that one woman is a victim of “femicide” every two days in the country.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

2.7 days, there is no reason to exaggerate, the numbers are already bad.