55-year-old mother of three to be executed in Iran

NCRI – An Iranian woman in her fifties is at imminent risk of execution in a prison in the city of Varamin, south-east of the Iranian capital Tehran.

The mullahs’ regime has transferred Batool Karimi, 55, to solitary confinement in the notorious Qarchak Prison for Women in preparation for her execution.

Ms. Karimi, a mother of three, has been imprisoned for the past four years.

She is accused of a drugs-related offence.

Qarchak Prison, also referred to as ‘Qarchak Death Camp’, was used by the regime in Iran as a place to brutally torture and rape those arrested during the 2009 anti-regime popular protests. The deaths of at least four young protesters under torture in Qarchak turned into a scandal for the Iranian regime.

Iran’s regime hanged two other women at the end of July.

One of the women, identified as Pari-Dokht Molai-Far, was hanged in the notorious Qezelhesar Prison on July 29. The mother of one had been imprisoned in the notorious Qarchak Prison for the past three years and was transferred to Qezelhesar to face execution.

Another woman was hanged in Kerman's Shahab Prison, southeast Iran, on July 30.

"Iran has reportedly executed more than 600 individuals so far this year. Last year, at least 753 people were executed in the country," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said on Wednesday.