Welcome to another episode of podcasts of the Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Today, we're examining some pretty stark new reports from the NCRI. 

And just to set the stage here, our mission today is to objectively analyze these findings. We are reporting the documented facts regarding the treatment of women in Iranian prisons just so you can understand what's actually happening on the ground. 

Exactly. And the data we're pulling from these sources, it really paints a picture of, well, a dual system at work. On one side you have the formal documented punishment. I mean, Amnesty International confirmed 2,159 total executions in Iran in 2025. Oh, wow. Yeah.

And to put that in perspective for you, that is the highest annual execution rate documented globally since 1981. Since 1981. 

Okay. Let's unpack this because that formal system is moving fast. Since our last deep dive on this region back on August 7, the regime has already executed two more young women.

Yeah. It's tragic. We're looking at 20-year-old Donya Mohammadi executed on August 19, and the 24-year-old Marzieh Nayyeri on August 8. And the context around Marzieh's case is particularly grim, right? It really is.

The sources state that she was forced into a child marriage at just 17 and later she claimed self-defense after stabbing her husband during an attempted assault by him and his business partner. But the court just rejected that. 

Completely rejected her defense. And that right there, that is the highly visible machinery of the state at work. 

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