Report: Ex-Child Bride Among Women Executed In Iran

MAY 23 2022·Updated JUL 29 2022

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The Facts

On Wed., the Iran Human Rights Group (IHR) reported that three women were executed by Iranian authorities for killing their husbands, including former child bride Soheila Abedi.
BBC News
Abedi, who married at 15, was sentenced to death in 2015 by a criminal court that ruled she committed the murder due to "family disputes " 10 years into the marriage.
Iran Human Rights
Meanwhile, Senobar Jalali, an Afghan national, was hanged in a prison outside Tehran and Faranak Beheshti was executed in the northwestern city of Urmia.
Hindustan Times
The trio are a part of a group of 32 people hanged in Iran in the past week. According to the human rights NGO Amnesty International, at least 251 death row convicts were killed in the first six months of 2022.
Daily Mail
Activists say murder trials are unfair as courts allegedly don't take domestic violence into consideration, while they claim that drug-related death penalties violate international law.
Daily Mail
The IHR stated that Iran executed 164 women between 2010 and Oct. 2021, including six child brides and a bride offered by a tribe to its rivals to halt a conflict.
Iran Human Rights

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The Spin

Pro-establishment narrative

The increase in executions - which disproportionately affects non-Persian minorities, such as the Baluch and the Kurds - is an attempt to spread fear and curb popular protests against the regime amid an economic crisis. The international community must act strongly to stop this course.

The Times of Israel

Establishment-critical narrative

The West should stop pushing its human rights standards on other countries and start respecting Iran's sovereignty. International law allows capital punishment in certain circumstances and it is used in more than 50 countries. Though Iran tries to convince victims' families to forgo "qisas" - or retributive justice - and pardon the convicted, this law ensures their rights.