Sohelia Abadi, an Iranian child bride who had Killed the man she was forced to marry when she was 15 years old is amongst the three women executed on Wednesday for murdering their husbands.
Soheila, now 25, was hanged in prison after the court ruled that she had killed her husband over ‘family disputes.’
Activists while agitating against the incessant death penalties meted to their people, claimed that most incidents of wives killing their husbands were sparked by domestic violence, however the Iranian Courts refused to take that into consideration.
Asides from the trio, 32 other people were hanged in just one week.
It comes amid a surge in executions across the country, with at least 251 people killed by the state killed in the first six months of the year, Amnesty International reported.
The charity accused Iran of carrying out a ‘horrific spree’ of executions, with many of those sentenced to death not having had a fair trial.
Of the 251 executed, 146 of them were for murder, and at least 86 were for drug offences which should not warrant the death penalty under international law.
Diana Eltahawy, deputy regional director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, said: ‘The state machinery is carrying out killings on a mass scale across the country in an abhorrent assault on the right to life.
