Those executed this year include a woman hanged in February, even after she died of a heart attack as she stood in line awaiting her turn behind 16 men, according to her lawyer.
Mother-of-two Zahra Ismaili had been convicted of killing her husband, despite protests from her supporters that she was a victim of violent domestic abuse.
David Alton, who sits in the UK’s House of Lords, described the execution as a “gruesome, barbaric” act.
He called on the UK and the EU to impose sanctions on senior judicial figures.
“Zahra is the third woman to be executed in Iran in less than a month,” he told an online conference organised by the exiled opposition group the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) to mark International Women’s Day. He said her case highlighted the “appalling situation of women in Iran”.
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