In Herat alone, there were 75 reported cases of self immolation during 2005.

In the few preceding weeks, up to 10 young persons reportedly committed self immolation.

In some instances, failed attempts at murdering girls and women by immolation have been alleged to be suicide attempts.

This year, there were 75 reported cases of self immolation in the city of Herat in western Afghanistan alone.

Once back in rural Afghanistan, forced into brutal marriages, many desperate women especially returnees from Iran resort to self immolation.

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There are regular reports of cases of self immolation (85 by AIHRC this year) that are partially attributed to child and forced marriages.

The overthrown Tunisian dictator must now regret that his security forces did not arrest Bouazizi and lock him up, rather than allow his public self immolation.

The lack of adequate support and responses to women victims of violence has been linked to the high rate of incidents of self immolation across the country.

Netizens around the world today commemorate the first anniversary of the Arab revolution, sparked by the self immolation of fruit and vegetable vendor Mohammed Bouazizi in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia.

Egypt's Military Police set Cairo's Tahrir Square ablaze and forcefully pushed away protesters demonstrating outside the Cabinet on the first anniversary of the Arab revolution, sparked by the self immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia.

But it may also explain why one self immolation in Tunisia helped to kindle the Arab Spring, whereas some three dozen self immolations by Tibetan monks and nuns have failed to ignite a similar popular movement against the Chinese state.

It wasn't the first case of a Palestinian using self immolation as a protest. On September 2, 17 year old Ehab Abu al Nada died in Gaza after he set himself on fire, maybe in imitation of the Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi.

Twitter user iPalestine tweeted about an attempted self immolation by a man called Hussein Qahwaji A citizen poured gasoline on his body and that of his 5 year old daughter and tried to set himself on fire, but others stopped him from doing so by force.