Iran executes woman who gave birth in prison after murder conviction

Asma Zarei, 28, was executed by hanging after giving birth in prison; her young child was orphaned as a result of the execution.

On May 20, in the Iranian city of Ardebil, a 28-year-old woman named Asma Zarei was hanged — leaving behind a two-year-old son she had given birth to while imprisoned. Her death, unannounced by the Iranian state and documented only by human rights organizations abroad, is part of a broader and troubling pattern: dozens of women executed in Iran in recent years, many of them convicted of killing husbands or fiancés, and many of them, researchers say, survivors of domestic violence who found no protection in the courts. The silence of the state around these deaths may speak as loudly as the deat

Iran executes woman who gave birth in prison after murder conviction

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