Iranian islamic fascist regime: A Female Prisoner Detained at Khoy Prison Sentenced to Death for Adultery

Iranian islamic fascist regime: A Female Prisoner Detained at Khoy Prison Sentenced to Death for Adultery.

A female prisoner detained at Khoy Prison was sentenced to death by the Criminal Court (Branch1) of Khoy on charges of adultery (sex outside marriage).

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that Golestan Jankanloo (married with two children from one of the villages of Maku), who was arrested and charged with adultery (sex outside marriage) in 2017 has been sentenced to death by Branch1 of Khoy court.

The verdict was verbally served on her yesterday by the Khoy Prison Administration.

Golestan Jankanloo was arrested about a year ago in Maku, along with a married man. They were both charged with adultery and transferred to Khoy Prison they were both released on bail after a few months. However, the case, which was previously under investigation in the Maku court, was filed with the complaint of the wife of the woman in jail this time to the Branch 1 of the Khoy Justice Court.

However, the complaint of Jankanloo’s husband led to the referral of the case from Maku Court of Justice to Khoy Court of Justice (Branch 1).

Ali Hasanzadeh, chairman of the Khoy who simultaneously heads the branch of a Court of Justice (Criminal Division), sentenced both defendants to death for the charge of adultery. The identity of the man who was detained along with this woman and later released on bail is unknown.

Last week, the KHRN also announced the death sentence for Zahra Derakhshani, another female prisoner detained at Khoy Prison on charges of adultery.

A female prisoner detained in Khoy Prison, who was arrested on November 2016, was accused of adultery (sex outside marriage) after being sued by her husband and has been sentenced to death by the Criminal Court (Branch 1).

This prisoner has been identified as Zahra Derakhshani, born in 1982, married and a resident of Khoy. She was arrested with another citizen from Khoy on November 2016, on charges of adultery.

An informed source has told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that the husband of this prisoner, a veteran and a member of the Basij, has been present at the court hearing as a private plaintiff in the case. However, despite the fact that neither of the above two people have accepted the adultery charge and the Forensic Medicine Bureau has also rejected any sexual relationship between them, Judge Ali Hassanzadeh (the head of the Criminal Court/branch 1, who is also the chairman of the justice of the city of Khoy) has found them guilty of adultery solely based on what he has called as “Judge’s knowledge” and sentenced the female prisoner to death after she has spent a year in prison.

The source further said that the man arrested along with Zahra Derakhshani was later released on bail and the Derakhshani case was referred to the Supreme Court after her lawyer appealed. However, the Supreme Court has not issued a verdict yet.

It is worth mentioning that Derakhshani is currently imprisoned in women’s ward of Khoy prison.