According to fresh reports, two young women were executed at the Central Prison of Qazvin, northwest of Tehran, in the early hours of Sunday, June 7, 2026.
The two prisoners have been identified as 28-year-old Asieh Farahmand and 32-year-old Zeinab Zarrini.
They had previously been tried in a joint case on charges of deliberate murder and were sentenced to death under the Sharia law of retribution.
Both women were from Qazvin and were related to one another.
At the time of publication, the execution of the two young women prisoners had not been announced by domestic media outlets or official sources.
With the execution of Asieh Farahmand and Zeinab Zarrini in the Central Prison of Qazvin, the number of women executed in the 2026 calendar year has risen to fifteen.
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 343 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.
Since Masoud Pezeshkian took office, the clerical regime has executed some 3,850 prisoners, including 103 women.
According to the NCRI sources, in 2025 alone, more than 2,201 executions were recorded in Iran, more than double the number carried out in 2024 (1,006).
Amnesty International confirmed in its annual report that Iran’s ruling dictatorship carried out at least 2,159 executions in 2025, the highest documented annual execution rate worldwide since 1981.
The NCRI Women’s Committee calls on the United Nations and relevant agencies, the European Union and its member states, as well as all human rights defenders, to take effective measures to halt the rampant executions in Iran.
