Iran News: Agence France-PresseUpdated: July 30, 2022
Tehran: Washington-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Centre for Human Rights in Iran and London-based Amnesty International said Wednesday that Iran is carrying out executions at a "horrifying pace" in an "abhorrent assault" on the right to life.
Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said that on July 27 three women were executed in different prisons for murdering their husbands in separate cases.
Women killed husbands who were abusive or they married child brides.
On July 27 three women were executed in different prisons for murdering their husbands in separate cases, meaning at least 10 women have now been executed by Iran in 2022.
Soheila Abedi, Faranak Beheshti, and Senobar Jalali were victims of forced marriages.
Senobar Jalali, an Afghan national, was executed in a prison outside Tehran
Meanwhile, Soheila Abedi, who had married her husband when aged just 15, was hanged in a prison in the city of Sanandaj in western Iran. She had committed the murder 10 years after their marriage and was convicted in 2015
Faranak Beheshti, who had been convicted around five years ago for the murder of her husband, was executed in the prison in the northwestern city of Urmia
A report by IHR published in October last year said that at least 164 women were executed between 2010 and October 2021.
But activists are alarmed by a surge in executions in Iran this year, coinciding with the rise of former judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi to the presidency in 2021 and protests over an economic crisis.
At least 306 people have been executed so far in Iran in 2022, according to a count by IHR.
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According to Islamic Sharia law, the victim's family decides the punishment for the accused charged with murder. They can choose between retaliation-in-kind (Qisas), blood money (Diya), and forgiveness.
It is reported that Iran executes more women than any other country worldwide. While most of these women are charged with killing their husbands, most of them had violent and abusive husbands and were married to them as children.
The exact numbers of the executions carried out in the country are unknown as there is no official announcement by the Iranian authorities. According to research conducted by human rights groups last year, only 16.5% of the total executions in the country were officially announced.
Human rights organizations are concerned about the increase in women facing the death penalty in 2022. Compared to the past year, the number has increased exponentially as the country sees a flow of executions.
Amnesty International and the Abdurrahman Boroumand Centre for Human Rights accused Iran of a "horrific wave of executions," where more than 250 people suffered the death penalty in the first six months of the year.
Deputy regional director Diana Eltahawy said, "During the first six months of 2022, the Iranian authorities executed at least one person a day on average. The state machinery is carrying out killings on a mass scale across the country in an abhorrent assault on the right to life. Iran's staggering execution toll for the first half of this year had chilling echoes of 2015 when there was another shocking spike,"
The judgment is delivered as soon as possible.
Of the people executed in 2022, the majority of 146 were convicted of murder, and 86 were accused of drug-related crimes.
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