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 ...

The woman had married her husband when she was just 12 — Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV Iranian authorities have freed a woman who was condemned to hanging over the killing of her husband who she married while a ...

A child bride who was to be executed this month in Iran had her life spared after the parents of her late husband agreed to forgive her in exchange for blood money worth about 8 billion tomans (about ...

The woman had married her husband when she was just 12 - Copyright AFP Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV The woman had married her husband when she was just 12 - Copyright AFP ...

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. MEMBERS OF the Iranian diaspora in Europe take ...

Iran's hardline Islamic regime, led by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is embroiled in a type of scandal seldom seen in the Islamic Republic. The controversy surrounds the wedding of Khamenei's ...

PARIS: A woman sentenced to death by Iran over the death of her husband, whom she married while a child, will not be hanged after she was “forgiven” by the family of the victim, the Iranian judiciary ...

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 ...