Iran this week executed three women in one day, all on charges of killing their husbands, said an NGO on Friday.
There has been an increasing concern about the increasing number of women hanging in Iran because the country saw a surge in execution.
Many killed a rough husband or they married as a bride or even a relative, said activist.
Iran of Human Rights based in Norway (IHR) said that on July 27 three women were executed in different prisons for killing their husbands in separate cases, which means at least 10 women have now been executed by Iran in 2022.
Senobar Jalali, a citizen of Afghanistan, was executed in a prison outside Tehran, he said.
Meanwhile Soheila Abedi, who married her husband when he was 15 years old, hung in a prison in the city of Sanandaj in western Iran.
He had killed 10 years after their marriage and was punished in 2015, said IHR.
Faranak Beheshti, who was sentenced to about five years ago for the murder of her husband, was executed in prison in the northwestern city of Urmia, he said.
Activists argue that Iran’s law is piled against women, who do not have the right to unilaterally demand divorce, even in the case of violence and harassment in the household.
A report by IHR published in October last year said that at least 164 women were executed between 2010 and October 2021.
But activists are worried about the surge in execution in Iran this year, to coincide with the resurrection of the former Head of Judiciary Ebrahim Raisi to the president in 2021 and protested the economic crisis.
At least 306 people have been executed so far in Iran in 2022, according to the calculation by IHR.
Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran and Amnesty International based in London said on Wednesday that Iran was carrying out execution with “terrible speed” in “disgusting attacks” on the right to life.
Those who were arrested in the last few weeks in the crush of critical votes including director Mohammad Rasoulof, whose film felt “no crime” about the effect of using the death penalty in Iran won the Golden Bear at the Berlin 2020 film festival.
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