A female prisoner identified as Kimia Khani was executed at dawn on Monday, January 19, at Isfahan Central Prison.
She is the fourth woman executed in Iran during the first month of the 2026.
Kimia Khani had been sentenced to death on drug-related charges.
As of the time of this report, Iranian prison authorities and relevant state institutions have not issued any official announcement confirming the execution.
Under the mullahs’ rule in Iran, the operatives of the Revolutionary Guards’ network, who traffic vast quantities of narcotics and addict the youth of Iran and the Middle East, openly supply prisoners in the regime’s jails with drugs to break their resistance. Those responsible not only face no punishment but enjoy lives of extreme luxury, while vulnerable individuals such as Kimia Khani, driven by extreme poverty and unemployment, are sentenced to death and executed.
Iran, the world record holder in executing women
According to data recorded by the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, at least 331 women have been executed in Iran since 2007.
Since Masoud Pezeshkian took office, the clerical regime has executed more than 3,100 prisoners, including 91 women. In 2025 alone, 2,201 executions were recorded in Iran, more than double the number carried out in 2024 (1,006).
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran once again calls on the United Nations and relevant agencies, the European Union and its member states, as well as all human rights defenders, to take immediate action to save the lives of death-row prisoners and to halt the rampant executions in Iran.
