Two of the eight Iranian women who President Trump urged the Islamic Republic to spare from execution had already been released when he made the public appeal, according to a Norway-based human rights monitor.
Golnaz Naraghi, 37, and Venus Hosseininejad, 28, have been out on bail since late March, according to the Iran Human Rights organization in Oslo. The status of the other six women were not immediately clear.
Trump drew attention to the women’s plight when he re-posted a X message from American pro-Israel activist Eyal Yakoby featuring a collage of the octet.
“To the Iranian leaders, who will soon be in negotiations with my representatives: I would greatly appreciate the release of these women,” the president wrote on Truth Social.
“I am sure that they will respect the fact that you did so. Please do them no harm! Would be a great start to our negotiations!!!”
In response to Trump’s post, Iran’s judiciary claimed that some of the women had already been released — without naming them — and none faced execution. Rights groups say at least two of the other women still in detention are facing charges that carry the death penalty.
Naraghi, an emergency room doctor and internal medicine specialist, and Hosseininejad, who practices the Baha’i faith, were arrested amid the January anti-regime protests that rocked Iran.
Hosseininejad was taken into custody Jan. 15 and forced to confess to crimes against the state on public TV, her family told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Naraghi had been taken captive one day earlier and forced to sign a confession at the Qarchak women’s prison, according to the Femena human rights group.
The other detainees spotlighted in the post include Bita Hemmati, who is accused of multiple crimes including using explosives and weapons, throwing objects such as concrete blocks, participating in protest gatherings, and disrupting national security, according to the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
Hemmati was arrested alongside her husband and two other men who lived in their apartment building, with all four sentenced to death for their alleged crimes against the regime.
Also featured in the post were Diana Taherabadi, 16, and Mahboubeh Shabani, 33, who were arrested earlier this year for their alleged participation in the anti-regime protests.
Taherabadi was charged with waging war against God, a capital offense in Iran, while Shabani was accused of assisting wounded protesters and was taken into custody in February.
Details on the other women featured in Yakoby’s post — Ghazal Ghalandari, Panah Movahedi, and Ensieh Nejat — could not be independently verified.
More than 50,000 people were taken into custody during the demonstrations, according to the US-based Human Rights News Agency (HRANA), which relies on a network of sources inside Iran.
The NCRI estimates that more than 300 people were executed in the first month of the year.
With Ronny Reyes and Post wires
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