News Center- Seven prisoners, including a woman, were hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj on Wednesday. According to statistics compiled by the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), at least 249 women have been executed in Iran since 2017.

The identity of the young woman, who had spent 8 years in prison on murder charges and was hanged on Wednesday, is still unknown, the committee said in a statement on Thursday.

“The number of women executed in Iran since the beginning of 2024 has reached 20. Nine of these executions were carried out during Masoud Pezeshkian’s term. The total number of executions in Iran in 2024 has exceeded 500, so far,” the committee said.

“The average number of women executed each year was 15, but this figure rose to 21 during Raisi’s presidency.”

The Iranian regime is the world’s top record holder of executions of women, the committee stated. “No government in the world has executed so many women. The list does not account for the tens of thousands of women executed in Iran on political grounds.”

Many of the women executed by the mullahs’ regime are themselves victims of domestic violence against women and have acted in self-defense, according to the committee.

Call for urgent action

In the statement, the NCRI Women’s Committee calls on the United Nations, the European Union, and other relevant international organizations “to take urgent action to save the lives of those on death row and stop the use of the death penalty in Iran.”