US EditionChild Bride in Iran Reportedly Faces Execution Without 'Blood Money' Payment
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Goli Kouhkan, 25, was married off at the age of twelve. Now she risks being executed for having helped kill her violent husband – unless she gives blood money to his family. According to human rights activists, this is symbolic for Iranian authorities.
A 12-year-old married youth is likely to be executed in Iran for murdering her abuser's husband, if he fails to string 10 billion tons (about 90,000 euros) to pay the victim's family for the loss to the limit of...
Goli Kouhkan lived in a physically and psychologically abusive marriage in Iran. Now she could be executed if she fails to make peace with her dead husband's family, according to The Guardian. Her case is causing the world to react.
The Iranian children's bride Goli Kouhkan has been on death row for seven years and is scheduled to be hanged in December. According to activists, her only chance is a »blood money« payment of almost 100,000 euros.
On Death Row at 25? The Child Bride Exposing Iran’s Harsh Reality for Girls
In northern Iran, Goli Kouhkan was just 12 years old when she was forced to marry her cousin. By 13, she had a child — and years of abuse followed. Now, at only 25, she faces execution after a domestic dispute led to her husband’s death. Her husband’s family has reportedly agreed to spare her life if she can raise 10 billion tomans (£80,000) by December. Her story has sparked global outrage and renewed attention on Iran’s child marriage laws, w…
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