Seven people, including two women, were hanged in Iran

Iran At least seven people, including two women, on Saturday Hanging has been given.

The Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said in a statement that Parveen Mousavi, a 53-year-old mother of two adult children, was executed along with five others convicted in various drug-related cases at Urmia prison in northwestern Iran. .

A 27-year-old woman named Fatima Abdullahi was hanged for killing her husband in Nishapur, eastern Iran.

The IHR says at least 223 people have been executed in Iran this year, with at least 50 executions in May alone.

The report said that the new trend started following the end of the Iranian New Year and the Ramadan holidays in April, and so far 115 people, including six women, have been executed.

According to records, Iran executes more women than any other country. Activists once morest the death penalty say that many of the women executed were forced into marriage or victims of domestic violence.

According to non-governmental organizations, Iran carried out the most executions last year than in any year since 2015. These organizations allege that Iran is using the death penalty as a tool to instill fear in the wake of protests that might begin in the fall of 2022.

“The international community’s silence on the issue is unacceptable,” IHR director Mahmoud Amiri Moghaddam told AFP.

“Those sentenced to death belong to the poor and marginalized sections of Iranian society and were not given a fair trial under due process.”

IHR says that Mousavi had been in prison for four years. The report quoted sources as saying that they were paid the equivalent of 15 euros for carrying a packet. They were told regarding the packet that it contained medicines but in fact they had five kilos of morphine.

“They are cheap victims of Iran’s killing machine, which aims to instill fear in people to prevent new protests,” Amiri Moghadam added.

Meanwhile, the organization said Iran’s Jewish community, which has shrunk in recent years but is still the largest in the Middle East outside Israel, might be hanged for the murder of a member. is hanging

Arun Ghahrimani, 20, was convicted of murder during a street fight at the age of 18, the organization said in a statement. They are to be hanged in the western city of Kermanshah. An audio message was received from his mother Sonia Saadati pleading for his life.

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The family of the person sentenced to death wants to ask the family of the victim not to carry out the execution under Qisas law.

Kamran Sheikhe is the last surviving member of a group of seven Iranian Kurds who were first arrested between early December 2009 and late January 2010 for alleged membership of extremist groups, the report said. The death penalty was awarded for the crime of “Arza”.

Six people convicted in the same case have been executed in recent months, nearly a decade and a half following their initial arrest. The last of them was Khusrau Basharat, who was hanged this week at Qazal Hisar prison outside Tehran.

The death sentence handed down to Iranian rap singer Tomaj Salehi last month has sparked strong international protests. Activists once morest the death penalty see his music as retaliation for supporting the 2022 protests. His lawyers will file an appeal once morest the verdict.