Murder in Kuwait stirs outrage over violence against women

Farah Akbar was killed this week by a man who was arrested but released on bail after threatening to kill her.
Kuwaiti women raise placards during a rally to denounce violence against women, outside the National Assembly in the capital, Kuwait City, on April 22, 2021. The women demonstrated after Farah Hamaza, a 32-year-old Kuwaiti woman, was recently killed by a young man despite her filing several complaints against him.
Kuwaiti women raise placards during a rally to denounce violence against women, outside the National Assembly in the capital, Kuwait City, on April 22, 2021. The women demonstrated after Farah Hamza Akbar, a 32-year-old Kuwaiti woman, was recently killed by a young man despite her filing several complaints against him. - YASSER AL-ZAYYAT/AFP via Getty Images
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The murder of a woman in Kuwait by a man previously arrested for harassing her has sparked a national conversation about violence against women in the conservative Gulf country.

Farah Hamza Akbar was killed on Tuesday by a man whom she had filed two cases against for harassment after she had turned down his marriage proposal.

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