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.
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.
Fahad Subhi Mohammed had been arrested on the harassment charges after allegedly threatening to kill Akbar. He was released on bail, and police say he stabbed Akbar on Tuesday in front of her two daughters. He then dropped her off at the entrance of a hospital south of Kuwait City and fled the scene, police say.
A statement from the Interior Ministry said Mohammed, 30, “admitted to stabbing her in the chest, which was the cause of death.”
