On the morning of Wednesday, October 2, 2024, the execution sentence for a woman named Zahra Fayzi was carried out in Tabriz Central Prison.
Zahra Fayzi, aged 41 and a resident of Tabriz, was arrested four years ago on charges of murdering her husband and was sentenced to qesas (retribution in kind).
The victim’s family demanded 4.5 billion tomans from Zahra’s family to halt the execution, but her family was unable to gather this amount. This sum far exceeds the official blood money rate in Iran, which has been set by the judiciary at 1.2 billion tomans for 2024.
The lack of a ceiling on blood money in Iran allows the victim’s family to request amounts significantly higher than the official rate, often leading to the execution of those unable to afford such payments.
So far, no media outlet or official source inside Iran has reported Zahra Feizi’s execution.
21 Women Executed in 2024
According to statistics compiled by the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, with the execution of Zahra Fayzi in Tabriz Central Prison, at least 250 women have been executed in Iran since 2007.
The number of women executed in Iran since the beginning of 2024 has reached 21. Ten of these executions were carried out during Masoud Pezeshkian’s term. The total number of executions in Iran in 2024 has reached 546, so far.
The average number of women executed each year was 15, but this figure rose to 21 during Raisi’s presidency. This year, with still three months remaining in the year, the number of women executed has reached 21.
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, 26 women were executed under Raisi government in 2023, 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.
