IRAN: 90TH WOMAN EXECUTED DURING ROUHANI’S TERM

July 18, 2019:

A woman, Zahra Safari Moghaddam, was hanged on 17 July 2019, in the Prison of Noshahr. The state-run IRNA news agency, cited the General and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Kelardasht, Seyyed Farzad Hosseini, announcing the execution of this 43-year-old woman in the Prison of Noshahr (Nowshahr). IRNA and the semi-official news agency, ROKNA, identified this woman as “Z.S.M.” Other sources say her full name was Zahra Safari Moghaddam. This is the 90th woman executed in Iran during Rouhani’s term in office since 2013.