Iran executes woman who gave birth in prison, sparking rights outcry

A 28-year-old woman was executed by hanging, leaving behind a 2-year-old child born during her imprisonment; the execution occurred without official transparency or state media coverage.

On May 20, in the city of Ardebil, Iran carried out the execution of Asma Zarei, a 28-year-old woman convicted of her husband's death — a sentence that left behind a two-year-old son she had conceived and delivered during her three years of imprisonment. The state offered no announcement, no transparency, and no public accounting; it was human rights organizations, not governments, that brought her story to the world. Her case arrives not as an isolated tragedy but as a mirror held up to a broader pattern — one in which capital punishment accelerates, trials remain opaque, and the space for de

Iran executes woman who gave birth in prison, sparking rights outcry

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