IRAN: WOMAN HANGED IN THE CENTRAL PRISON OF ORUMIEH
July 4, 2018: A woman was hanged at dawn in the Central Prison of Orumieh along with two other male prisoners. The identity of the executed woman has not been made available, yet. With this execution, the number of women executed during Hassan Rouhani’s presidency amounts to 83.The list of death-row female prisoners who have been detained in the Central Prison of Orumieh includes: Chenar Salehi, Yasna Sadeqi, Arasteh Ranjbar, Nazdar Vatankhah, Tahmineh Danesh, Farideh Hassanpour, Shelir Khosravi, Somayeh Ebrahimzadeh, and Zeinab Sekanvand who was under 18 at the time of committing the crime. It is not known yet which one of these women was hanged in the Central Prison of Orumieh, in the morning of July 4, 2018. (Sources: women.ncr-iran.org, 05/07/2018)
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