16 March 2025 :

March 16, 2025 - IRAN. 2 women and a man executed in Urmia on March 16.
Mojgan Azarpisheh, Kosar Bagherzadeh (Kowsar Baghernejad), and Arshad Farzadband.
According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two women and a man were hanged in Urmia (Darya) Central Prison on 16 March. Their identities have been established as Mojgan Azarpisheh from Naghadeh, Kosar Bagherzadeh from Urmia and Arshad Farzadband (photo), a 28-year-old Kurdish man from Margour in Urmia. They were all sentenced for murder.
Informed sources previously told IHR: “Mojgan Azarpisheh was arrested for the murder of a pregnant woman six years ago and Kosar Bagherzadeh was arrested for the murder of her husband over two years ago. Arshad Farzadband was arrested last year for murdering a woman to steal her gold”.
At the time of writing, their executions have not been reported by domestic media in Iran.
Mojgan and Kosar are the sixth and seventh women to be executed in the first 75 days of 2025. Iran executes the highest number of women globally. In 2024, at least 31 women were executed in Iran, the highest number of recorded women executions in more than 15 years. According to data compiled by the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), at least 270 women have been executed in Iran since 2007.

https://iranhr.net/en/articles/7424/
https://hengaw.net/en/news/2025/03/article-63
https://wncri.org/2025/03/16/two-women-executed-in-urmia/