The National Council of Resistance of Iran today announced that eight prisoners, including two women, have been executed in Iran in the last two days. The statement added that since February 20, at least 18 prisoners, including two political prisoners, have been executed in Iran in just one week.
Referring to the two executions that took place in Zahedan prison this morning, Monday, February 27, 2023, the National Council of Resistance of Iran said: The execution and killing machine of the religious fascism ruling Iran does not stop even during the speech of its Foreign Minister at the Human Rights Council in Geneva.
On Sunday, February 26, five prisoners, including two women whose identities and crimes are unknown, were hanged in Birjand prison in south Khorasan.
The execution of these two women brings the number of women executed in Iran since 2007 to a staggering 207.
Despite ongoing international condemnation of Iran’s human rights abuses, the regime remains relentless in its pursuit of power and oppression. In fact, the Foreign Minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, delivered a speech at the Human Rights Council in Geneva while these executions were taking place, highlighting the regime’s utter disregard for human rights.
It is unacceptable that the Iranian regime continues to execute women and violate human rights with impunity. The international community must take decisive action to hold the regime accountable for its atrocities and end this brutal regime’s reign of terror.
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, seven 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.
