NEWS CENTER – Women in Iran face an escalating wave of femicide and domestic violence.

This alarming rise comes amid widespread criticism of the legal system, which activists accuse of providing legislative cover that ensures perpetrators escape punishment, turning violence against women from a passing social crisis into a structural dilemma protected by law.

Reports for the current month of October indicate the continuation of incidents of women being killed by their husbands, former husbands, or other family members, alongside the killing of children due to violence, and the occurrence of several domestic murders in various Iranian cities. Documented incidents include: women killed by their relatives, bodies set on fire, deaths under mysterious circumstances, and the execution of women inside prisons. These facts once again confirm the scale of violence practiced against women and children, and highlight the urgent need to study the social, legal, and preventive factors behind this phenomenon.

Various Iranian cities have witnessed an alarming escalation in tragic domestic crime rates, alongside the execution of women, as a series of brutal assaults and killings within the family environment were recorded within a few weeks.

The following is a chronological monitoring of the most prominent of these crimes and executions carried out: On 28 September, the Iranian authorities executed citizen Mahroukh Mirzaei inside Isfahan Prison.

On 30 September, the capital Tehran witnessed a tragic crime in which a man killed his mother-in-law. On the same day, a person deliberately set fire to the house of his wife's family in Islam Shahr city, resulting in the killing of three members of one family: his wife "Ruqayya Ebrahimi," her mother, and her brother. The authorities also executed another death sentence against prisoner Ashraf Faraji in the central prison in Sari city on the same day.

On 4 October, a young woman from Tehran lost her life as a result of severe burns, after her husband deliberately set fire to her body. On the same day, a young girl died at the hands of her brother inside the family home in Shahroud city.

Kermanshah city witnessed a double crime on 5 October, where a young man killed his mother Fatima Lotfi and his sister Zahra Shahbazi, 26 years old. A person also committed a horrific murder on Qeshm Island, whose victim was his sister.

On 6 October, a young man in the city of "Gharough" in the Sirik municipality killed his mother under shocking circumstances. On 8 October, citizen Mina Soltani was killed in the Baharan neighborhood of Isfahan city by her husband. On the same day, young Narmin Mohammed died under mysterious circumstances in Sanandaj city. The same date also witnessed the killing of a 70-year-old woman in Tehran by her husband, the death of a child in Iranshahr city as a result of severe injuries from a brutal beating, in addition to the killing of a 16-year-old girl, one of the victims of child marriage, in Bakharz city by her husband.

On 9 October, unknown persons in one of the streets of Saravan city set fire to the body of young Mahsa Bozorgzadeh, leading to her death. A 27-year-old young woman was also killed in Tehran by her former fiancé.

On 14 October, a woman who is a mother of three children was killed in Jovein city in North Khorasan province by her former husband. Just two days later, a young woman lost her life in Divandarreh city following disputes with her husband, who is 30 years older than her, and no further details were published about the cause and manner of her death.

In western Tehran, a man on 18 October killed his wife, her mother, and the building guard where they live. In a related context, Isfahan province was stricken by a family massacre that claimed the lives of four members of one family: the father, the mother, the son, and the daughter.

These crimes also extended to other villages and cities, where a person committed a massacre against his wife's family in the village of "Mulla Yousef" in Marand city, resulting in the killing of his father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law. In Tabriz city, three separate crimes were recorded: a man killed his wife, while another 45-year-old man ended the lives of his wife and their two children. A 57-year-old man also ended the lives of his wife and three children before turning and committing suicide. In another shocking incident, two brothers killed their three sisters.