Sakineh Ghasemi, also known as Pari Bolandeh and commonly referred to as the tall fairy,[1] was an Iranian sex worker.
She was arrested after the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the burning of the Shahr-e No neighbourhood, and was executed on 12 July 1979, along with two other sex workers, on charges of "waging war against God.
Ghasemi is thought to have been born in Qazvin and later moved to the Shahr-e No area of Gomrok, Tehran where she was the head prostitute in a brothel.
Ghasemi was arrested along with other prostitutes including Simin BMW, Ashraf Chahar Cheshm, Shahla Abadani and Peri Siah.
The place and method of execution has not been given, although the headline of that day's Kayhan newspaper read: "3 women and 4 men were shot by the orders of the Islamic Revolutionary Courts.