Iran Human Rights Campaign: Executions of Women in Iran Have Increased

The Iran Human Rights Campaign reported an increase in the number of women executed in Iran, stating that since the beginning of 2024, at least 873 individuals have been executed, including 29 women. According to this human rights organization, many of the women executed by the Islamic Republic at a young age were previously victims of forced childhood marriages, domestic violence, and structural gender discrimination. The report also emphasizes that in many cases, these women considered killing their relatives as the only possible way to escape their unbearable living conditions. Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the Iran Human Rights Campaign, stated: 'The same law that allows girls to marry at the age of 13 in the Islamic Republic provides no protection against spousal violence or domestic abuse. Then, these women are sentenced to death for actions they took to escape the hell of their lives.' According to Hadi Ghaemi, the issue of women's executions is 'another layer of crimes against women in Iran.' This human rights activist believes that 'judicial authorities make no effort to examine the crimes of these women in the context of deep and systematic violence and abuse against women and girls; a situation where there is no support or escape.' The report also mentions the issuance of death sentences for female political prisoners, including Pakhshan Azizi, Varisheh Moradi, and Sharifeh Mohammadi, emphasizing that these ruthless actions reflect the depth and scope of increasing and brutal repression against female political-social activists. The Iran Human Rights Campaign wrote that Pakhshan Azizi and Varisheh Moradi, Kurdish political activists, have always faced the most severe forms of social-political repression as a minority. The issuance of these sentences has drawn international human rights organizations' protests. In its report, this human rights organization called on the UN, the international community, and all democratic countries committed to human rights values to 'demand that the authorities of the Islamic Republic immediately stop the execution of these brutal death sentences.' The campaign also called for specific and targeted human rights sanctions against judges and officials involved in issuing and executing these ruthless death sentences. Vida Mohammadi: The death sentence for Sharifeh Mohammadi is an act of revenge against women activists. A collective request from families seeking justice in Sanandaj for the cancellation of political prisoners' death sentences. Amnesty International warned about the execution of 10 death sentences related to protests in Iran. The judiciary of the Islamic Republic executed two prisoners in Mahabad. At least six individuals were executed in Qezel Hesar by the judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic.