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Women Being Sent to the Gallows in Alarming Numbers in Iran

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Many Were Child Brides Hanged for Murder of Abusive Husbands From Whom There Was No Protection  December 18, 2024 — Amidst a huge surge in executions in the Islamic Republic— 862 so far in 2024, the highest per capita execution rate globally—the Iranian authorities are now increasingly including women in those it sends to the gallows. Since the start of 2024, Iran has executed at least 29 women. More executions of women may have taken place that are unknown.
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Happy Ramadan | Iran Carries Out 5 Executions in Less Than a Week in Sanandaj, 2 in Urmia, 3 in Isfahan

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Iran Human Rights (IHR); April 29, 2020: With the execution of another man on April 28 in Sanandaj prison, the total number of executions in the prison during six days has reached five. 

According to IHR sources, death-row prisoner Faegh Sharifi was hanged on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. “Faegh was sentenced to death for murdering his neighbour,” the source told IHR.

The Hengaw website that first published the news reported that Mr Sharifi was the father of three. 

His execution is carried out while the Islamic Republic’s authorities had usually been reluctant to execute people in the Muslims’ fasting month, Ramadan, during the past years. However, several people have been executed in the first days of Ramadan 2020. 

Executions in Iran have continued to be carried out even after the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country.

Only in Sanandaj prison, at least five people were executed in the past six days.

Two Men Hanged in Urmia Prison


Iran Human Rights (IHR); April 29, 2020: Two men were hanged for murder charges on April 28 at the central prison of Urmia city, West Azerbaijan province.

According to IHR sources, on the morning of Tuesday, April 29, two prisoners were hanged at Urmia prison. 

The prisoners are identified by the sources as Zarar Peyghami from the city of Oshnavieh and Yasser Rasouli from the city of Bukan. 

Both had been sentenced to death for murder charges. 

Executions in Iran have continued to be carried out even after the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country.

According to IHR’s Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran, at least 280 people were executed in Iran in 2019.

Three Men Executed in Isfahan Prison


Iran Human Rights (IHR); April 29, 2020: Three prisoners were executed at Isfahan central prison on April 22.

According to IHR sources, three executions were carried out on Wednesday, April 22, at Isfahan central prison. 

Death row prisoner Ali Sheikhani had been sentenced to death on the charge of rape. Mojtaba Haeri and Jamal Jafari-Nasab had been sentenced to qisas (retribution in-kind) for murder charges.

Executions in Iran have continued to be carried out even after the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country.

According to IHR’s Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran, at least 280 people were executed in Iran in 2019.

Man Hanged at Khalkhal Prison


Iran Human Rights (IHR); April 23, 2020: A prisoner was hanged for murder charges at Khalkhal prison, Ardabil province, this morning. 

He was arrested six years ago and sentenced to qisas (retribution) for murder.

Executions in Iran have continued to be carried out even after the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in the country.

According to IHR’s Annual Report on the Death Penalty in Iran, at least 280 people were executed in Iran in 2019.

Source: Iran Human Rights, Staff, April 23-29, 2020


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