Execution of a Woman and the Murder of a Female Kurdish Courier on the eve of the “International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women”
Six Prisoners Executed in Qezelhessar and Karaj Prisons on Sunday and Monday, November 24 and 25
On Sunday, November 24, ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25), the regime’s executioners hanged a 36-year-old female prisoner, Fariba Maleki Shiravand, in Khorramabad. This brings the total number of women executed under Massoud Pezeshkian’s presidency to at least 17. Concurrently, in Nosud, criminal IRGC forces shot and killed a 26-year-old female border courier (kolbar), who was the mother of a young child.
Also, on Sunday, November 24, three prisoners—Hossein Souri, Moslem Jafari, and another unidentified inmate—were executed in Qezelhessar Prison in Karaj. Today, Monday, November 25, three more prisoners—Ashkan Moradi, Jalal Haj Babai, and Davoud Heidari—were hanged in Karaj Central Prison.
On Saturday, November 23, Nasser Ghabel Soleimani and Nader Ghani Zadeh were executed in Jiroft Prison. On Thursday, November 21, in addition to executions previously announced, Kazem Heidari, 34, was executed in Isfahan, and Meysam Nouri was executed in Hamedan.
On Wednesday, November 20, Mostafa Souri, 32, was hanged in Tabriz. On Tuesday, November 19, Mohsen Fayyazi and Omid Javidan were executed in Esfarayen. This raises the total number of executions in the Iranian month of Aban (October 22-November 20) to 149.
Additionally, on Sunday, November 24, two prisoners arrested during the 2022 uprising—Mehran Hassanzadeh from Oshnavieh and Hamid Abdollahzadeh from Urmia—were sentenced to death by Branch 2 of the Urmia Revolutionary Court.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the international community to support the campaign of “No to Executions” and to condition diplomatic and trade relations with the clerical regime on halting torture and executions. It also calls for urgent action to save the lives of death row prisoners, especially women. The leaders of this regime must be brought to justice for over four decades of crimes against humanity and genocide.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
25 November 2024
