Iran: Women among protesters against death penalty

In the morning of Saturday, February 25, 2017, a number of human rights defenders and families of death-row prisoners gathered outside the parliament in Tehran and demanded that the death sentences be revoked.

The protesters were from Tehran, Charmahal-o Bakhtiari, West Azerbaijan, Khuzistan, Isfahan and Qeshm. Women carried placards which read, “Execution = disintegration of a family.”

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