Iran executed three women in a single day, including a young woman who was forced to marry at the age of 15.

The human rights situation of women in Iran is a source of growing concern. This Friday, an NGO reported that in the week it had Tehran executed three women in one dayall accused of killing their husbands.

Many of the murdered husbands were violent, had married them as children or even relatives, activists say. Among the executed there was an emblematic case of this type of situation: Soheila Abedi, a woman who had been forced to marry at 15 and killed her husband after 10 years of marriage.

According to the court ruling, Abedi killed her husband due to “family disputes”. The woman was sentenced in 2015.

Iran Human Rights (IHR), based in Norway, announced this on July 27 three women were executed in different prisons for killing their husbands.

According to the group, Iran is hiding the real figures of the death penalty. In 2021, he said, only 16.5 percent of executions were announced. At least 10 women were executed in Iran in 2022.

Amnesty International, for its part, accused Iran of having carried out a “horrible” wave of executions in the last months. According to their information, the country executed more than 250 people in the first six months of 2022, more than double the equivalent period last year.

“The state machine is carrying out large-scale killings across the country in a heinous attack on the right to life,” said Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s regional deputy director.

The executed women

In addition to Abedi, the others executed were an Iranian and an Afghan. Jalali, an Afghan citizen, was reportedly executed in a prison outside Tehran.

Faranak Beheshti, who was convicted about five years ago for the murder of her husband, was executed in the prison in the northwestern city of Urmia.

Activists support it Iranian laws are against womenwho do not have the right to unilaterally seek divorce, even in the case of domestic violence or abuse.

A report on the IHR published in October last year describes it at least in detail 164 women were executed between 2010 and October 2021.

But activists are alarmed by the spike in executions in Iran this year, coinciding with the rise to presidency of former head of the judiciary Ebrahim Raisi in 2021 and protests over the economic crisis.

Source: AFP