A young woman, 32, was hanged in the Central Prison of Mashhad on Sunday, August 2, 2020. The woman identified only by her 1st name, Mehri, had already served 6 years in prison on the death row.
The state-run Shahraranews.ir reported the woman’s execution on Tuesday, August 4, 2020. The executed woman was accused of murdering her husband.
The Iranian Resistance has registered 106 women executed during the tenure of the mullahs’ President, Hassan Rouhani, since he took office in 2013.
The substantiated information is based on the news and information published in the state-run media in Iran, human rights activists, and other reliable sources inside Iran with ties to the Iranian opposition movement. The actual figure must be considered higher, as most executions in Iran are carried out secretly out of the public eye with no witnesses but the executioners who carry them out.
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran has published a list of the women executed during Rouhani’s tenure.
The 1st woman who was executed in 2020 was Sara M. who was also hanged in the Central Prison of Mashhad. The 2nd woman was Maliheh Haj Hassani, 29, whose death sentence was carried out in the Central Prison of Shiraz.
In 2019, in step with ramping up suppression and executions in Iran, the clerical regime hanged 16 women, 6 of them only in the month of December.
Iran holds the world record for the execution of women. Because of the clerical regime’s failure to categorize murders according to their degrees, anyone committing murder is sentenced to death, regardless of their motives.
These executions are cruelly unjust. As the NCRI Women’s Committee has formerly noted, many of the women convicted of murder in Iran are themselves victims of domestic violence against women and have committed murder in self-defense.
Source: women.ncr-iran.org, Staff, August 5, 2020
Iran Executes Woman After 6 Years on Death Row
A young woman was executed on August 2, 2020, in the Central Prison of Mashhad, the state-run media reported today.
The woman identified only by her 1st name, Mehri, had already served 6 years on the death row.
According to the state-run Khorasan daily the executed woman was accused of murdering her husband.
With this execution, the total number of women executed during Rouhani’s tenure reaches 106. This is the 3rd execution of women in 2020 which has been announced by the state media.
Iran has the highest rate of executions per capita.
Iran Human Rights Monitor’s records indicated that a total of 273 executions took place in Iran in 2019, including 16 women and 9 juveniles.
The substantiated information is based on the news and information published in the state-run media in Iran, human rights activists, and other reliable sources inside Iran.
Nevertheless, the actual figures are definitely higher, as most executions in Iran are carried out secretly without anyone knowing except those who carry it out.
According to the latest annual Amnesty International report released in April 2020, about 1/3 of executions worldwide are carried out in Iran.
Amnesty International has listed Iran as “the world’s second most prolific executioner” in 2019.
Source: Iran Human Rights Monitor, Staff, August 5, 2020
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