Rojava University Women's Assembly and Faculty of Medicine members and students made a statement in front of the university building in Qamishlo to condemn the rape and murder of a female doctor in India. On 9 August, Dr Moumita Debnath was brutally murdered in the hospital where she worked. Tens of thousands of Indian women took to the streets with the slogan ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ and protested the murder.

Hemrîn Ehmed, a student of the Faculty of Medicine, read the statement to the accompaniment of fellow students displaying banners that read ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ [Woman, Life, Freedom].

The statement pointed out that women have always resisted against the rulers and the culture of abuse as persecution, oppression, violence and murder of women and children continue uninterruptedly all over the world. The statement emphasised that women's resistance around the world is becoming more and more unified and noted that from the murder of Jina Mahsa Amini to Dr. Moumita Debnath, the policies of murder and harassment are persistently continuing, and tens of thousands of women from Shengal to Ukraine, from Afrin to Afghanistan, from Iran to India have been raped and murdered,

Noting that women around the world are not safe in the institutions they work for and are vulnerable in all areas of life, the statement said: “We support the resistance of women in India. International human rights organisations should not remain silent and should apply legal sanctions against the murder of women and for their defence.”