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IRAN - 2 women and a man sentenced to death for adultery
November 2, 2023: November 2, 2023 - 2 women and a man sentenced to death for adultery
Leila Khalghi Sakachayi, Mitra … and Abolfazl Barat Vakili
On 22 August 2023, branch 5 of the Tehran Criminal Court has sentenced Leila Khalghi Sakachayi and Abolfazl Barat Vakili to hanging for adultery charges.
According to the court verdict received by IHR, secret recordings that were filmed without her knowledge were used as evidence against both Leila and Abolfazl. Leila was arrested on 1st January 2023 and is currently held in Ward 5 of Qarchak Prison.
They were sentenced to hanging for adultery based on Articles 2, 12, 14, 15, 140, 141, 160, 162, 211, 221, 225 and 226 of the Islamic Penal Code.
According to Iran newspaper, another woman has also been sentenced to death for adultery charges by Branch 12 of the Tehran Criminal Court. Only identified as Mitra, her husband had also filed the complaint against her based on video recordings. The man in the case, who was named as Khosro, has received a lashing sentence.
Sex outside of marriage is criminalised by the Islamic Republic and if one party is married, it is considered adultery with the married party receiving the death penalty.
IHR once again draws the international community’s urgent attention to the increasingly high death sentences and executions in Iran. Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “The international community shouldn’t tolerate executions being carried out for consensual sex or the expression of an opinion in the 21st Century by a government that has a seat at the United Nations.”
“Unfortunately, the international community’s lack of appropriate response to the executions of a man for adultery and two men for blasphemy charges in spring, encouraged Islamic Republic authorities to increase the number of such sentences. The political cost of such executions can be raised by civil society campaigns and political pressure by the international community,” he added.
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/6283/ (Source: IHR)
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