Daily Times

Iran this week executed three women in the space of a single day, all on charges of murdering their husbands, an NGO said on Friday. There has been growing concern over the increasing number of women being hanged in Iran as the country sees a surge in executions. Many killed husbands who were abusive or they married as child brides or even relatives, activists say. Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said that on July 27 three women were executed in different prisons for murdering their husbands in separate cases, meaning at least 10 women have now been executed by Iran in 2022. Senobar Jalali, an Afghan national, was executed in a prison outside Tehran, it said. Meanwhile Soheila Abedi, who had married her husband when aged just 15, was hanged in a prison in the city of Sanandaj in western Iran. She had committed the murder 10 years after their marriage and was convicted in 2015, IHR said.

Faranak Beheshti, who had been convicted around five years ago for the murder of her husband, was executed in the prison in the northwestern city of Urmia, it said. Activists argue that Iran’s laws are stacked against women, who do not have the right to unilaterally demand a divorce, even in cases of domestic violence and abuse.