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 freed a woman who had been condemned to death over the killing of a husband she had married as a child, officials and activists said Friday. Activists said the woman's husband had ...

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

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

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

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.

A 19-year-old woman has been beheaded by her husband after running away just two days into their forced marriage. The 23-year-old man, who is also his wife's cousin, handed himself into the Valiasr ...

Iranian authorities have freed a woman who was condemned to hanging over the killing of her husband who she married while a child, in a case that sparked international concern over the plight of women ...