The death sentence against 24-year-old Rana Faraj Oghli is said to have been carried out at the Tabriz Central Prison.

UN rights experts last week urged Iran to halt the execution of Goli Kouhkan, saying she was forced into marriage at the age ...

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

Goli Kouhkan, now 25, was on death row in Iran's Gorgan central prison for seven years. She was arrested at 18 for allegedly ...

A young woman who endured years of horrific domestic abuse was sentenced to death in a trial that has been criticised by ...

An Iranian woman convicted for murdering her abusive husband was executed on Wednesday, said an international NGO campaigning for her clemency. “Samira was a victim of years of gender apartheid, child ...

A child bride in Iran who was set to be executed after her husband died was saved after raising a hefty sum of money for the ...

Protesters in London campaign against Iran's use of the death penalty in 2020 Iranian authorities put three women to death on Wednesday for murdering their husbands, a human rights charity says.

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

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

Iranian authorities put three women to death on Wednesday for murdering their husbands, a human rights charity says. According to the Iran Human Rights Group they were among 32 people executed in the ...

Guardian story helped to draw attention to planned hanging of Goli Kouhkan over death of abusive husband A child bride who was due to be executed this month in Iran over the death of her husband has ...