Iran executed over 30 women in 2024: report

Iran in 2024 executed at least 31 women, an NGO said yesterday, warning that female prisoners were increasingly being caught in a surge in the use of capital punishment in the Islamic republic.

Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR), which closely tracks executions in Iran, said in a report that the figure for 2024 marked the highest number of women to be hanged in Iran since it started documenting the use of capital punishment in 2008.

It added that 241 women were executed from 2010 to 2024, mostly on drug and murder convictions.