According to the Supreme Judicial Council, 4,779 divorces were registered in June this year.

The Supreme Judicial Council issued statistics on the number of marriages and divorces in Iraq for the month of June, which witnessed a relative decrease in the number of divorces compared to last May, but it remained at a high level, approaching five thousand divorces.

The statistics published by the judiciary on Sunday indicated that twenty-three thousand, three hundred and twenty-four, marriages were registered, compared to four thousand, seven hundred and seventy-nine divorces during the month of last June. Basra and Al-Karkh Governorate in Baghdad topped the statistics of divorce cases with nine hundred and forty-seven cases each, while Rusafa topped the marriage cases with three thousand nine hundred and seventy-six cases. The number of divorce cases increased during the first half of this year to thirty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-one cases, according to statistics from the Supreme Judicial Council.