"A child bride faces execution in Iran for the killing of her abusive husband unless she can raise 10bn tomans (about 80,000) to pay off the victim's family by a December deadline. Goli Kouhkan, 25, has been on death row in Gorgan central prison in northern Iran for the past seven years. She was 18 when she was arrested over the death of her husband in May 2018, and sentenced to qisas retribution-in-kind for participation in the killing."
"Currently the number of state authorised executions is on the rise. Kouhkan belongs to an ethnic minority, she's a woman and she is poor. She is probably the absolute weakest in Iranian society, he said. Her sentence is symbolic of Iranian authorities' use of the death penalty to create fear, and the discriminatory laws and societal factors that have led to this situation."
"As an undocumented minority, she has no official identity documents. She married her cousin at 12, became pregnant when she was 13 and gave birth to a boy. According to IHR, Kouhkan suffered physical and emotional abuse for years. When she managed to escape once and ran to her parents' home, her father told her: I gave my daughter away in a white dress, the only way you can return [is wrapped in a shroud]."
Goli Kouhkan, 25, a Baluch woman from northern Iran, has been on death row for seven years after being sentenced to qisas for participation in her husband's killing. She was arrested at 18 for the May 2018 death and must raise 10bn tomans (about $80,000) by December to pay the victim's family to avoid execution. Kouhkan married at 12, bore a child at 13, and endured years of physical and emotional abuse. She and a cousin were arrested after a fight that resulted in her husband's death. As an undocumented ethnic minority woman, she lacks identity documents and legal protections.
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