{"id":22362,"date":"2021-06-02T15:11:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=22362"},"modified":"2021-06-02T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T13:11:12","slug":"irans-regime-executed-118th-woman-under-rouhani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/articles\/2021\/06\/irans-regime-executed-118th-woman-under-rouhani\/22362\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Regime Executed 118th Woman Under Rouhani"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Iranian regime hanged a woman and her husband in Qazvin Central Prison at dawn on Sunday, 30 May 2021, \u00a0bringing the total number of women executed during the presidency of Hassan Rouhani<\/a> to 118; an average of 15 per year over the past eight years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The couple were identified by their last name \u2013 Pir-Ostovan \u2013 but their first names were not known, with the state-run media not yet reporting on it. The pair were arrested in 2013 on the Qazvin-Karaj Highway and given the death sentence on their first court hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mrs Pir-Ostovan is the first<\/a> woman to be executed on drug-related charges, which is not a capital crime under international law, since the law around punishment of those crimes changed in 2017 with an amendment that banned executions on drug charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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