On the final day of January, the clerical regime executed a woman in the Prison of Sabzevar, in northeastern Iran. Zahra Nazarian, 27, was hanged at dawn on Wednesday, January 31, 2024.
Zahra Nazarian was convicted of murder of her brother-in-law. She had been imprisoned for four years before being executed this morning.
Zahra Nazarian, the first woman executed in 2024, is the 230th in the list of women executed by the clerical regime since 2007, according to the data compiled by the NCRI Women’s Committee.
Record holder of executions of women
The Iranian regime is the world’s top record holder of executions of women.
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 NCRI Women’s Committee previously mentioned that many of the women executed by the mullahs’ regime are themselves victims of domestic violence against women and have acted in self-defense.
An average of 15 women were executed every year under the former government in Iran.
However, this year, 26 women have been executed under Raisi government which is 11 more than the previous average.
The NCRI Women’s Committee calls on the United Nations, the European Union, and other relevant international organizations to take urgent action to save the lives of those on death row and stop the use of death penalty in Iran.
