With the three women hanged in Kerman Prison, the number of women executed in Iran since 2013 reaches 127.
Reliable reports from inside Iran say that the authorities of the Central Prison of Kerman hanged three women and three men, this morning, Thursday, December 9, 2021.
The three executed men were Gholam Barahouii, Saeed Dahmardeh, and Khaled Shahbakhsh. The identities of the three women have not been verified, yet.
Khaled Shahbakhsh was serving his sentence of 25 years in prison, but his sentence was changed to death in retaliation for the deaths of some government agents in clashes with Baluch citizens.
Considering the three women hanged in Kerman this morning, the tally of women executed since summer 2013 in Iran reaches 127.
Two other women were executed on November 23 and 25, in the prisons of Yasuj and Qazvin. One of them was Maryam Khakpour, 41, who was executed on drug-related charges.
The world’s chief executioner of women
Iran holds the world’s top executioner record, with the highest number of citizens executed per capita. It is also the world’s chief executioner of women. An average of 15 women is executed in Iran every year. The executions are grossly unfair.
The actual number of executions, particularly the number of women executed, is much higher. The clerical regime carries out most executions in secret and out of the public eye. No witnesses are present at the time of execution but those who carry them out.
The Iranian regime open-handedly uses the death penalty as a form of punishment. In a discriminatory manner, this punishment is carried out against religious and ethnic minorities, political dissidents, and women.
According to Amnesty International, more than two-thirds of the world countries have abolished or halted the death penalty. However, in Iran, the killing machine is taking up speed under Ebrahim Raisi, the notorious henchman of the 1988 massacre, and Gholam Hossein Mohseni Eje’i, another notorious judge involved in the genocide.
