2023-12-20 13:19:45
A woman was hanged in Iran after being found guilty of murdering the husband she was forced to marry as a child, a human rights group said Wednesday.
Samira Sabzian, detained for ten years, was executed at dawn in Ghezel Hesar prison, near Tehran, according to Iran Human Rights (IHR), an organization based in Norway.
The NGO claims that this woman, who married her husband at the age of 15, was a victim of domestic violence. She was arrested ten years ago, when she was 19 years old.
The condemned woman had two children whom she had not seen again in detention until a visit organized in December before her execution, according to the IHR.
“Samira was the victim for years of gender apartheid, child marriage and domestic violence, and today she is the victim of the regime’s corrupt and incompetent death machine,” says Mahmood-Amiry Moghaddam , the director of IHR.
Rights groups have warned of an increase in executions in the Islamic Republic this year, with at least 115 deaths in November alone, according to Amnesty International.
The NGO had urged Iran not to execute the young woman. And London intervened to try to prevent the execution.
“Samira is a victim of child marriage (…). Iran must stop its appalling treatment of women and girls,” Tariq Ahmad, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday evening.
IHR says 18 women have been executed in Iran this year, including Samira Sabzian.
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