Samira Sabzian Fard, 30, was hanged at dawn in Qezel Hessar Prison, Karaj, on Wednesday, December 20, 2023. Her children are 11 and 15 years old.
She was allegedly arrested in December 2014 for deliberately murdering her husband.
Samira Sabzian Fard came from Khorramabad, the capital of Lorestan Province, western Iran. She was a victim of child marriage and domestic violence. She was forced to marry at age 15. She killed her husband with the complicity of her sister and another individual, in the city of Malard, in Tehran Province.
Samira Sabzian Fard was sent to solitary confinement to prepare for execution, last week on December 11, but her sentence was not carried out and she was returned to the ward on December 12. Ms. Sabzian Fard tragically lost her power to speak and walk when she was taken to the solitary cell. She was returned to the ward in wheelchairs. She was returned to solitary cell on December 13 as a punitive measure.
Samira Sabzian Fard is the 21st woman to be executed in 2023 by the clerical regime, and the 224th woman executed in Iran since 2007.
The Iranian regime is the world’s top record holder of executions of women.
The NCRI Women’s Committee condemns the death penalty and its frequent use by the clerical regime to terrorize Iranian society and preserve their grip on power. It calls for urgent action to stop the regime’s execution machine and the visit of an international fact-finding delegation to Iranian prisons and meeting with prisoners.
UN General Assembly Condemns Human Rights Abuses in Iran
The General Assembly issued the United Nations’ 70th resolution last night, December 19, 2023, condemning the violations of human rights in Iran. The resolution was adopted by a majority vote. The efforts of the regime’s allies and other human rights violators to prevent the adoption of this resolution proved futile.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said while this resolution only reflects a portion of the regime’s many crimes, it signifies a global consensus against a regime that holds the least regard for the recognized principles and standards of human rights, continually and gravely violating them.
She added that today, in Iran, a regime of execution and genocide is in power that continuously violates all articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Taking advantage of the horrific war in the Middle East has increased the number of executions. Since the start of the war on October 7, 2023, 245 executions, and in November, 120 executions have been recorded, including political prisoners and uprising heroes.
Iran, under the rule of the mullahs, sees the widest range of permanent and institutionalized suppression of women, including violence and discrimination, imposing mandatory hijab, and killing girls for improper hijab.
Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that the international community must expel the clerical regime and refer the dossier of the human rights catastrophe in Iran to the UN Security Council by adopting a firm policy. The regime’s leaders such as Ali Khamenei (the mullahs’ supreme leader), Ebrahim Raisi (the regime’s president), Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeii (the mullahs’ Chief Justice), and Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf (the speaker of the mullahs’ parliament) should face justice for their four-decade-long crimes against humanity and genocide.
The immunity of these criminals from punishment further encourages the regime’s execution, massacre, torture, warmongering, and terrorism.
Instead of appeasing this brutal regime, the global community should suspend political and economic relations with it until the torture and execution of prisoners and the massacre of protesters come to an end.
