Goli Koukhan paid the family of her dead abusive husband 10bn tomans in a diyah (blood money) payment to avoid being put to ...

Iranian authorities have freed a woman who was condemned to hanging over the killing of her husband who she married while a ...

Goli Kouhkan was forced into marriage with cousin at 12, gave birth at 13 and was abused for years; she's spared execution ...

Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an international campaign for clemency, rights groups said. Samira Sabzian, who had ...

UN rights experts are urging Iran to halt the execution of a woman over the death of her abusive husband, whom she was married off to at 12 years old. Goli Kouhkan, an undocumented Baluch woman today ...

Human rights groups and others have condemned the execution of a woman in Iran who was found guilty of killing the man she was forced to marry as a child. Amnesty International said it "is horrified ...

PARIS (AFP) — Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an international campaign for clemency, rights groups said. Samira ...

Iran on Wednesday hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an international campaign for clemency, rights groups said. Samira Sabzian, who had ...

An Iranian woman who was forced into marriage as a child and being held in prison for murdering her husband, was executed Wednesday despite calls from human rights groups for leniency. Samira Sabzian ...

Iran on December 20 hanged a woman convicted of murdering her husband, whom she married while still a child, defying an international campaign for clemency, rights groups said. Samira Sabzian, who had ...

A child bride in Iran is facing execution for allegedly killing her abusive husband unless she pays £80,000 in blood money to the victim's family. Goli Koukhan has spent seven years on death row in ...

On the floor in front of the couple lay the ritual symbols of the Moslem wedding—a Koran resting on gold brocade, a golden mirror to symbolize brightness and joy, bowls fashioned out of crystal candy ...