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On the morning of Wednesday, October 2, 7 prisoners, including a woman, were hanged in Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj-Iran. The identity of the young woman, who had spent 8 years in prison on murder charges, is still unknown.

According to statistics compiled by the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, with the execution of this woman in Qezel Hesar Prison, at least 249 women have been executed in Iran since 2007. The number of women executed in Iran since the beginning of 2024 has reached 20. Nine of these executions were carried out during President Pezeshkian’s term. The total number of executions in Iran in 2024 has exceeded 500, so far. https://tinyurl.com/44sbn4sp

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Anisha Assadollahi, a labor activist currently serving her sentence in Evin Prison in Iran, has been denied visits with her family for over three months. Since July of this year, she has been barred from seeing her family and her husband, Keyvan Mohtadi, due to her protests against the death sentences issued against Sharifeh Mohammadi and Pakhshan Azizi. On August 6, 2024, Ms. Assadollahi  was also deprived of telephone contact by the prison’s disciplinary committee following her protests against the execution of Reza Rasaei. She was sent to Evin Prison in July of last year to serve her sentence. https://tinyurl.com/mb2mcfx7

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Political prisoner Maryam Sadat Yahyavi has been deprived of her right to phone calls with her family for over 50 days. This ban was imposed on August 6, 2024, following the publication of a letter written by Maryam in support of fellow political prisoner, Pakhshan Azizi. The prison authorities, in response, ordered her to be cut off from phone contact. During these 50 days, she has only been granted a single cabin visit at the end of September. https://tinyurl.com/yc7j5yrn