The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Yazidi Free Women's Movement (TAJÊ) has sent a letter to the European Women's Rights Organization and the Iraqi Shiite Religious Movement to protest the death penalty given to women's rights activists Warisha Moradi, Pakshan Azizi and Sharifa Mohammadi..

The letter said: "Throughout human history, peoples have always been subjected to oppression, injustice and rights violations by the rulers. For 5 thousand years, all kinds of violence have been used against the oppressed, especially women, with a male-dominated, nationalist, racist and sexist mentality.

There are undoubtedly many methods of killing, one of which is through execution. The Iranian regime has been implementing a system of executing people. Targeted are women, as well as Kurdish, Persian, Baluch, Azeri, Arab and other communities. The Iranian state calls itself an Islamic state, and speaks in the name of democracy and equality, but it has been transformed from an Islamic system into an execution system.

There is a lot of oppression and violence against women in Iran. Evin Prison in Iran has been transformed into a prison where women are tortured, destroyed and murdered before the eyes of the world."

'Silence against oppression'

The letter, which mentions that the Iranian regime executed at least 831 people, as far as official records show, in 2024, said: "People are being executed without trial. This situation has no place in Islam or human rights law. However, international communities remain silent against this and do not take any stance."

The letter, which referred to the death sentence given to Kurdish journalist Pakshan Azizi and civil society activist Sharifa Mohammadi, continued: "The Iranian regime has recently announced the decision to execute Kurdish women’s rights defender Warisha Moradi. They want to silence the struggle of a free woman and a free society by executing them. Is defending rights a crime? TAJÊ does not accept the death sentence, we see the pain and struggle of women in Kurdistan and East Kurdistan. We say that this system of execution must be ended, and this decision must be lifted immediately in order to build a free and democratic life."

TAJÊ concluded its letter saying: "We call for the end of this system of exclusion and call on the international community to take responsibility for defending women’s rights and standing against injustice."