One of the three women executed was Soheila Abadi, a child bride who was married when she was 15. Abadi was convicted of murdering his wife, whom he had been married to for 10 years, due to “family quarrels”.
According to Amnesty International, more than 250 people were executed in Iran in the first 6 months of 2022, more than double the number compared to the same period last year.
Human rights organizations also report that far more women are executed in Iran than in any other country. Most of the women sentenced to death in Iran are those who killed their spouses.
Activists say accusations of “domestic violence” in Iran are often ignored.
Since the Iranian authorities do not officially announce each execution, the exact figures are not available.
According to a study published by two human rights organizations in April, 16.5 percent of the world’s executions last year took place in Iran, according to official data.
Human rights organizations also state that some executions are carried out in mass executions in Iran.
It is also noteworthy that ethnic minorities are more in the number of people executed in the statistics.
For example, Balochs account for more than a quarter of those sentenced to death in Iran so far this year. Their share in the Iranian population is 5%.