Zahra Esmaili has been sentenced to death for her ‘ultimate kidnapping’ and the shooting of her husband, an intelligence agent, who is rumored to have been her abuser (Image: NCRI Women’s Committee)

In Iran, women were publicly hanged by the mothers of their victims even though they were already dead.

In July 2017, Zahra Esmail was sentenced to death after “ultimately striking” and killing her abusive husband.

On the day of his hanging, he died of a heart attack while witnessing the public execution of 16 people awaiting the same fate.

But she decided to hang her body so her mother-in-law could drop the stool under her feet.

Authorities denied the reports, but his attorney said the cause of death was cardiac arrest, not hanging.

Esmail’s daughter was sentenced to five years in prison and her son arrested as an accomplice.

Both claimed that he was asleep at the time and that their son helped his mother-in-law hit the chair.

Zahra’s case is believed to have been made public to heighten public fear, with the prospect of a public execution for the crime.

Iran’s Human Resources Director Mahmoud Amiri Moghadam told The Mirror: And this applies in any case. It can happen to you. Here is the message.

Zahra Esmail was hanged after dying of a heart attack while witnessing 16 executions.

A mother of two watched in horror as 16 men were executed before it was her turn (Image: NCRI Commission on Women)

The mother of a murder victim beat her killer before removing the noose from around his neck during a public execution in the northern Iranian city of Noor in 2014.

The mother of a murder victim slapped her killer before removing the noose from around his neck during a public execution in the northern Iranian city of Noor in 2014 (Image: ISNA/AFP)

A UN human rights expert told the BBC in October that almost all executions in Iran constitute “arbitrary termination of life.”

Under Iranian law, citizens can be punished for crimes that are not considered “the most serious” under international law, such as drug trafficking.

In June 2021, a month before Iranian President Ebrahim Rais won the election, Iran recorded the highest number of executions in the country, with 51 people executed.

Activists have called on Western powers to crack down on Iran’s executions and human rights abuses as part of negotiations on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

“Human rights cannot be sacrificed under the cloak of nuclear negotiations with the Islamic Republic,” said Hadi Gaemi, executive director of the Iran Center for Human Rights.

“Iranian officials have insisted from day one that human rights are not part of the nuclear deal.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Sir Salman Rushdie and his supporters said the 75-year-old satanic poetry writer was stabbed multiple times in New York in the body and liver, and is likely to lose one. .

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