A new wave of serial murders of women in Iran

Iran Press News: Iranian women who out of poverty and deprivation have become prostitutes are now being rounded up, taken to the Hasht-Gerd section of the Tehran suburb of Karadj and brutally slaughtered. A recently discovered body of a woman in a garden in that area, began unfolding the horrible nature of a series of crimes against women; the women were brutally murdered after being raped. After an investigation, it became clear that the perpetrators of this murder, are a gang that has been involved in various aspects of the crime. Gang members follow prostitutes, make appointments with them, after trapping them, they rape their victims, killing them, they either bury their bodies in random locations or in some cases, they have been known to dump them down water wells in private houses or in rural areas.

Three years ago, a man by the name of Saeed Hanaii was also caught for raping and killing 16 women over a period of several months. Each of the 16 women were poor and forced into prostitution out of social and economic pressures.