Iran: 104th Woman Executed During Rouhani’s Tenure
Written by Shahriar Kia on 15 January 2020.
An Iranian woman, identified as Sara M, was executed last week in Mashad Prison, central Iran, according to the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Her execution marks the 104th time a woman has been executed during the so-called ‘moderate’ Presidency of the Hassan Rouhani who took office in 2013.
The state-run Rokna news agency, reported on January 14 that Sara M, who was arrested at the age of 32 in 2016, spent two years in prison before being executed in early January 2020.
Sara M. is the first woman to be executed in Iran in 2020. In 2019, the Iranian regime executed 16 women simultaneous with increasing suppression and executions in Iran. In the three weeks of December 2019, alone, six women were executed by the regime in various Iranian prisons.
https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/157-human-rights/27232-iran-104th-woman-executed-during-rouhani-s-tenure
