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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Sarah Johnson

Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’

A noose with a red tulip attached to it
A noose at a rally against Iran executions in Paris. Iran executes the highest number of women globally, according to available data. Photograph: Siavosh Hosseini/LightRocket/Getty Images

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.

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