US EditionChild Bride in Iran Reportedly Faces Execution Without 'Blood Money' Payment
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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…
Goli Khoukan was the victim of an abusive marriage for five years, and his husband just died in a row with a prince, after he found him hitting the five-year-old.
Beluchin, a minority in Iran, is facing the death penalty. Should she not be able to pay the sum of ten billion toman (about 96,000 euros) by December, she is threatened by the gallows. Goli Kouhkan, who is now 25 years old, has been detained on the death row of the Gorgan Central Prison in northern Iran for seven years. Beluchin without a residence permit was charged in May 2018 when she was 18 years old for the killing of her husband and then …
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