Iran Regime Executes Husband and Wife
99th women executed under Rouhani
Written by Shamsi Saadati on 13 December 2019.
The Iranian regime has executed a husband and wife in a prison in Mashhad, north-east Iran, state media reported.
A woman, identified as Maryam, 32, was hanged along with her husband, Mehdi R., at dawn on December 8 in the Central Prison of Mashhad, the state-run ROKNA news agency reported on December 11, 2019.
Maryam was the 99th woman to be executed during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure as President of Iran’s regime, the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said.
She was the second woman to be executed in Iran within the span of a week, according to human rights group Iran Human Rights Monitor. Somayyeh Shahbazi Jahruyi was executed on December 4, 2019, in the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz, southwest Iran, Iran HRM reported.
https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/157-human-rights/27070-iran-regime-executes-husband-and-wife
