News Center- On July 27, two women prisoners were executed in Iran. Soheila Abedi was executed in the central prison of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province while Faranak Beheshti was executed in the central prison of Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province.

According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the two women were transferred to solitary cells for the execution of their sentences on July 26.

33-year-old Soheila Abedi had become a child bride at the age of 15 and was arrested in 2014 on the charge of “premeditated murder” of her husband. She was sentenced to “retribution in kind” (qisas). Faranak Beheshti was arrested about five years ago on the charge of “premeditated murder” of her husband and was also sentenced to “retribution in kind” (qisas).

More than 250 people executed in first six months of 2022

According to new research by Amnesty International and Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran , more than 250 people were executed in Iran in the first six months of 2022. In the statement, the two organizations warned that if executions continue at this horrifying pace they will soon surpass the total of 314 executions recorded in Iran during the whole of 2021.

“Most (146) of those executed this year had been convicted of murder amid well-documented patterns of executions in Iran being carried out following grossly unfair trials. At least 86 others were executed for drug-related offences which, according to international law, should never incur the death penalty,” the research said.