When Mercy Becomes a Crime: Executions and the Silencing of Iran’s Women

Welcome to another episode of podcasts of the Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. Glad to be here for this one. It's, it's a heavy one today. It really is. Our focus today is on the wave of arrests of protesters after the January 2026 uprising and the execution of protesters, including of women sentenced to death.Right. I mean, I want you to imagine being charged with enmity against God, which is a crime that's literally punishable by execution. Yeah. And your weapon in this supposedly massive war against the divine, a steering wheel like a car that you used to drive your bleeding neighbor to the hospital. It's hard to even process that.Exactly. So today we are opening up a stack of files that reveal a justice system turned completely upside down. We're doing a deep dive into on the ground reports, human rights documentation and, you know, news excerpts from outlets like the New York Post. And what all these sources show is this severe, just sweeping wave of arrests and executions of protesters in Iran, specifically following that January 2026 uprising. And there was a very specific chilling focus on how this crackdown is disproportionately targeting women.Yeah. And the material we're looking at today really challenges our basic assumptions about, well, what a legal system is even supposed to do. Right. Because normally you expect the law to act as a stabilizing force, right? Like, a way to uncover the truth and deliver some kind of proportional justice.Sure, yeah. But these documents detail a scenario where the legal apparatus has been fundamentally repurposed. It is no longer a mechanism for justice. No, not at all. It's an instrument of state preservation.Support the show