Execution of women in Fardis Prison of Karaj; 2 women hanged for murder
Sources inside Iran reported today the execution of women in Fardis Prison of Karaj, also known as Kachouii Prison.
According to reports from inside Iran today, Wednesday, February 22, 2023, 2 women were executed in January and February in Iran.
Fariba Hosseini and an Afghan woman named Nazifeh were the last victims of the execution of women in the Fardis Prison of Karaj.
Fariba Hosseini was hanged in Fardis Prison on February 14, 2023. Fariba Hosseini was a mother of two children who was arrested and imprisoned in this prison 6 years ago on charges of murder.
Another prisoner, Nazifeh, was executed in Fardis Prison in early January. Nazifeh was an Afghan citizen imprisoned in the Fardis Prison for murdering her husband. Her last name is not known, but it is said that she had 2 children.
According to reports from Fardis Prison of Karaj, many Afghan women are locked up there on charges of theft, drug trafficking, and murder. They are held in an uncertain situation because they have no support.
In 2022, at least 624 people were executed in Iran, which shows a 1.7-fold increase compared to 366 people in 2021.
Since the beginning of 2023, at least 88 people have been executed in Iran, at least 4 of whom were political prisoners.
With the execution of women in Fardis Prison of Karaj, the number of women executed in Iran since 2007 reached 205.
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran urges the United Nations and its relevant human rights bodies to pressure the mullahs’ regime to stop executions, particularly the execution of women, in Iran.
The world’s record holder of the execution of women
The Iranian regime is the world’s top record holder of the execution of women.
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran has compiled these women’s names in a list called “List of Women Executed in Iran since 2007.”
No government in the world has executed so many women. The list does not account for the tens of thousands of women executed in Iran on political grounds.
The Iranian regime is the world’s top record holder of executions of women.
The NCRI Women’s Committee has previously mentioned that many women executed by the mullahs’ regime are victims of domestic violence against women and have acted in self-defense.
An average of 15 women are executed in Iran per year
The Iranian regime open-handedly uses the death penalty 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.
In 2019, the mullahs’ regime hanged 16 women in tandem with increasing suppression and executions in Iran. In December 2019 alone, six women were executed by the regime in various Iranian prisons.
The regime also executed 18 women in 2021, 7 from November 22 to December 21, 2021.
According to the statistics compiled by the NCRI Women’s Committee, at least 15 women were executed in Iran in 2022.
Source: women.ncr-iran.org, Staff, February 23, 2023
