On the morning of Tuesday, June 24, 2025, Tal’at Sabzi, a 47-year-old female prisoner, was executed along with another prisoner in Qom Central Prison.
Tal’at Sabzi had been arrested five years earlier on charges of murder and, following judicial proceedings, was sentenced to death. The news of this execution carried out at dawn on Tuesday has just recently been leaked out.
Hafizeh Blochzehi, 25, executed in undisclosed place
In another development, a 25-year-old woman named Hafizeh Balochzehi was reportedly executed in secret on May 4, 2025, along with eight other prisoners at an undisclosed location.
Mizan news agency, affiliated with the Iranian Judiciary, reported the executions on June 9, 2025, stating the victims were accused of being members of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS). However, the report omitted key details, including the identities of those executed and the location where the executions took place.
Hafizeh Balochzehi was from Saravan in the Sistan and Baluchestan province. The eight men were reportedly from Kurdish or Baloch ethnic backgrounds.
With the execution of Tal’at Sabzi and Hafizeh Balochzehi, the number of women executed in Iran in 2025 has risen to 23.
Iran: The World’s Leading Executioner of Women
Iran holds the grim record for the highest number of women executed globally. According to data compiled by the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), at least 286 women have been executed in Iran since 2007.
Many of the women executed by the Iranian regime are themselves victims of domestic violence and discriminatory family laws. A significant number have acted in self-defense.
The number of women executed in Iran saw a sharp rise in 2024. At least 34 women were hanged last year, with 23 of these executions occurring after Masoud Pezeshkian took office.
In the Iranian calendar Year 1403, at least 38 women were executed in Iran, marking a disturbing 90% increase compared to the previous year.
In just eleven months after Pezeshkian took office, the number of execution victims in Iran surpassed 1,370. While the total number of executions in the entire 2024 was over 1,000.
These figures reinforce the reality that, regardless of who holds the presidency, the Iranian regime continues to trample on the rights of its people, especially women.
