Wednesday, Iranian authorities executed three women for the murder of their husbands, according to a human rights organization.
According to the Iran Human Rights Group, they were among the 32 individuals executed in just the past week.
Among them was a former child bride convicted of killing the 15-year-old man she had married.
It is claimed that authorities have significantly increased their usage of the death sentence, executing twice as many people so far this year compared to last.
According to human rights organizations, Iran executes more women than any other nation, with the majority having been convicted of killing their husbands.
The Iran Human Rights Group said on Wednesday that former child bride Soheila Abadi was hung in prison after being convicted of murdering her spouse 10 years after marrying him at age 15.
According to the sentencing court, the motive for the murder was “family problems.”
According to the group, two other women hanged on Wednesday were also convicted of murdering their husbands.
According to activists, many cases contain allegations of domestic violence, but Iranian courts usually disregard this fact.
As the Iranian government does not publicly report every instance of the death penalty being carried out, it is impossible to obtain accurate execution statistics.
According to a study published in April by two rights organizations, only 16.5% of executions believed to have occurred in Iran last year were notified by authorities.
This year’s reports indicate an increase in the usage of the death penalty since the previous year.
Amnesty International alleged this week that Iran had engaged in a “horrific” execution spree in recent months, putting more than 250 people to death in the first six months of 2022 – more than double the amount executed during the same period the previous year.
Amnesty International’s deputy regional director, Diana Eltahawy, described the deaths as a horrific assault on the right to life. “The state apparatus is carrying out mass executions across the country,” she said.
The rights group alleges that some of the guilty have been executed in mass, including twelve persons in one prison on June 15 and the same number in another prison on June 6.
In the data, ethnic minorities are likewise overrepresented.
Despite comprising less than 5 percent of Iran’s total population, Amnesty International estimates that more than one-quarter of those executed so far this year were members of the Baluchi minority.
