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Iran | Woman hanged in Zahedan, 142nd Woman Executed in 9 Years

More than 400 death penalties carried out in 2022

The clerical regime in Iran is continuing its execution spree throughout the country. A woman and 4 men were hanged in the Central Prison of Zahedan on Saturday, September 10, 2022.

The woman’s identity is still unknown. The Iranian state media have not acknowledged her execution as this news is being published.

The woman hanged in Zahedan is the 142nd woman whose execution has been recorded since August 2013.

The number of executions in Iran has increased since Ebrahim Raisi took office last August.

On average, 15 women are executed in Iran every year. However, under Ebrahim Raisi, 22 women were executed in just 1 year. The unidentified woman in Zahedan is the 23rd woman executed under Ebrahim Raisi.

At the same time, a record 521 executions have been registered during Raisi’s 1-year tenure from August 3, 2021, until August 3, 2022.

Another 115 people have been hanged since August 3.

More than 400 have been hanged in less than 9 months (until September 10) in 2022. Compare this to 366 executions during the entire 2021.

Most women executed in Iran are victims of domestic violence


The Iranian regime is the world’s top record holder of the executions of women. The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran has compiled the names of these women in a list called “List of Women Executed Under Rouhani and Raisi.”

The Iranian Resistance collects data on the executions of women in Iran from material published by the Iranian state-run press. It also compiles information from human rights activists and private sources in touch with the Iranian Resistance.

The actual figures are higher, as the Iranian regime carries out most executions secretly without anyone knowing except those who carry them out.

The NCRI Women’s Committee has previously announced that many of the women executed by the mullahs’ regime are victims of domestic violence against women and have acted in self-defense.

The Iranian regime open-handedly uses the death penalty in Iran as a form of punishment.

In many cases, religious and ethnic minorities, political dissidents, and women are targets of the death penalty in a discriminatory manner.

183 women on death row in Iran


According to documents from the mullahs’ regime, the Iranian Resistance declared in mid-May 2022 that 183 women in the regime’s prisons were on death row or sentenced to death by retribution (Qesas).

Death by retribution is carried out on persons convicted of murder, regardless of their motives.

During a series of major revelations, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) published extensive information from the clerical regime’s judicial system, including the Prisons Organization.

According to the statistics registered by the office of the Prisons Organization, 5,197 people are on death row or sentenced to Qesas (retribution in kind).

Of these, 1,366 are sentenced to death, including 39 women. Another 3,831 prisoners, including 144 women, have a sentence of Qesas or retribution.

Sixty death row prisoners were under 18 at the time of the alleged offense in 2020.

The documents also list the names of 51 persons, including 23 women, sentenced to death by stoning and 107 prisoners sentenced to amputation.

Source: women.ncr-iran.org, Staff, September 11, 2022





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