{"id":27083,"date":"2021-10-08T16:02:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/?p=27083"},"modified":"2021-10-08T16:02:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T14:02:19","slug":"world-day-against-the-death-penalty-women-and-the-death-penalty-an-invisible-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranfreedom.org\/en\/human-rights\/2021\/10\/world-day-against-the-death-penalty-women-and-the-death-penalty-an-invisible-reality\/27083\/","title":{"rendered":"World Day Against the Death Penalty: Women and the Death Penalty, an Invisible Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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10 October- World Day Against the Death Penalty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Join us as we call for an end to the cycle of executions in Iran<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

19th World Day Against the Death Penalty: Women and the death penalty, an invisible reality. The\u00a0World Day Against the Death Penalty<\/strong>\u00a0unifies the global abolitionist movement and mobilizes civil society, political leaders, lawyers, public opinion to support the call for universal abolition of capital punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On 10 October 2021, the World Day will be dedicated to\u00a0women; those at risk of being sentenced to death, those who\u2019ve received a death sentence, and those who have been executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To date, Iran is the world record holder in both executions per capita and execution of women <\/a>and minors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discrimination against women harshens the plight of women and girls in Iran even when it comes to the death penalty. Thousands of women and girls have been sent to the gallows in the past 4 decades, some without even being identified and some in their early teens and as young as 13 years old; the regime has made clear time and again that it will not show mercy to anyone, from 70 year old mothers to pregnant women who were killed by firing squads at the gallows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just in the summer of 1988 over 30,000 political prisoners were executed in summary executions with 2-3 minute trials based on a fatwa by Khomeini and seen through by \u2018Death Commissions\u2019 which included some of the highest ranking officials including Raisi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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