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An Iranian woman who, after a child marriage, endured abuse and killed her husband faces execution by hanging unless she can pay ‘blood money’ of 1...
A symbol of the human rights reality facing vulnerable groups in Iran: ethnic minorities·women·the poor An Iranian woman who, after a child marriage, endured abuse and killed her husband faces execution by hanging unless she can pay ‘blood money’ of 10 billion tomans .
According to the Guardian on the 3rd , Goli Kouhkan , a death-row inmate at Gorgan Prison in northern Iran, was sentenced to death seven years ago, at age 18, on a charge of killing her husband, and has been incarcerated since. The Islamic penal principle of qisas was applied to Kouhkan. On September 16, 2023 , a sign criticizing executions by the Islamic regime of Iran is displayed at Trafalgar Square in London, United Kingdom. Getty Images Under Iranian law, if Kouhkan provides 10 billion tomans as ‘diya’ to the family of the victim, she can avoid execution; otherwise, it will be carried out at the end of this year. Kouhkan, from the Baloch minority that accounts for about 2% of the population of Iran, was forced to marry her cousin at age 12 and, at 13, became pregnant and gave birth to a son. The Baloch are among the most marginalized minorities in Iran, and Kouhkan was an undocumented person without an identity document. According to Iran Human Rights , a Norway-based human rights organization, Kouhkan suffered physical and psychological abuse by her husband for years. Once she managed to escape and returned to her parental home, but her father turned her away, saying, “A daughter sent off in a white dress cannot return unless she is in a shroud”. An exhibition calling for a halt to executions in Iran is held at Trafalgar Square in London, United Kingdom, on October 10, 2020 . Getty Images In May 2018, when the incident occurred, Kouhkan witnessed her husband assaulting their then five-year-old son. She called a relative to stop him, but a fight broke out between the relative and the husband, and in the process the husband died. Kouhkan called an ambulance and reported it to the police, and she was arrested. Kouhkan underwent a coercive investigation without assistance of a lawyer. Illiterate, she signed a statement confessing to the crime, and the court sentenced her to death. Negotiations over the ‘diya’ to avoid execution were handled by prison officials, and the amount was set at 10 billion tomans. Iranian human rights activists say the case of Kouhkan is a typical example of discriminatory law enforcement against women and ethnic minorities in Iran. In Iran, child marriage is legal, and there is little legal protection against domestic violence. Mahmood Amiri Moghadam of IHR stated, “Kouhkan is a woman from a minority and she is poor. She is among the most vulnerable people in Iran”, adding, “The punishment imposed on Kouhkan is a symbolic example of how the Iranian authorities abuse the death penalty to maintain rule through fear, and how discrimination in law and social structures drives an individual to death”. A representative of a Baloch human rights advocacy group said, “Women in Iran have no human rights. They must obey the words of their husbands and cannot even go to school. Parents use poverty as an excuse to marry off their daughters”. According to the Guardian, Iran has the highest number of executions of women in the world. Over the past year, 31 women were executed on charges including drug offenses·murder·national security. This was the highest number in 15 years. More than 30 women have already been executed so far this year.
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