Honor killing in Kermanshah: Young woman murdered by her father

Seydeh Donya Hosseini
Age: 23
Stabbed to death: February 17, 2025
Residence: Beriyakhani, Kermanshah
Perpetrator: Father
Excuse: ‘Honor’

On Monday, February 17, 2025, Seyedeh Donya Hosseini, a 23-year-old woman from the village of Beriyakhani in Dalahoo County and a resident of Dowlatabad neighborhood in Kermanshah, was stabbed multiple times to death by her father, Seyed Yadollah Hosseini. The motive behind the murder has been reported as "honor-related." A source close to the Hosseini family stated that she had been divorced by her husband about 40 days ago due to what was described as a "relationship with another man." After 40 days of separation, she returned to her parental home, and just one day after arriving, she was murdered by her father with multiple stab wounds in an honor killing.

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