Iran | Child Bride to be Hanged Due to Inability to Pay Blood Money

After seven years, her husband’s family have agreed to forgo execution if she pays 10 billion tomans in blood money and agrees to leave Gorgan forever.

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); October 6, 2025: Goli Kouhkan, a 25-year-old undocumented Baluch woman who was a child bride in a physically abusive marriage, is scheduled to be executed for a murder she did not commit within months if she cannot raise the €100k blood money demanded by the victim’s family.

According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a Baluch woman is scheduled to be executed in December should she fail to pay the 10 billion tomans (€100k) diya (blood money) demanded by the victim’s family.

Goli Kouhkan, a 25-year-old undocumented Baluch woman who is held in Gorgan Central Prison, was arrested for the murder of her husband in May 2018, when she was 18 years old, and sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for participation in the murder.

An informed source told IHRNGO: “Goli was 12 when she was forced to marry her cousin. A year later, she gave birth to a son at home without medical care. While pregnant, she was forced to do heavy farm and house work and consistently subjected to physical violence at the hands of her husband who also cut her contact with her family and friends. Every attempt to leave had been unsuccessful due to both her undocumented status and societal factors. Once, when she escaped to her parent’s home, her father told her: ‘I gave my daughter away in a white dress, you will return in a shroud.’"

The source continued: “On the day of the murder, her husband had been beating both Goli and their young son. Desperate and helpless, she called his cousin for help. When he arrived, a fight broke out which ended with her husband being unintentionally killed. Goli called for an ambulance and told the authorities everything. They were both arrested and sentenced to qisas.”

“Her family has completely abandoned her since the arrest. Over the years, Goli has learned to read and write, as well as skills such as carpet weaving, leatherwork, and marquetry, using them both as a means to earn money and as a way to cope with the emotional void in her life. On the few occasions that she has been able to see her son, it was prison authorities who facilitated the visits. After seven years, her husband’s family have agreed to forgo execution if she pays 10 billion tomans in blood money and agrees to leave Gorgan forever,” the source added.

Iran executes the highest number of women globally. In 2024, at least 31 women were executed for drug-related, murder and security-related charges in Iran, the highest number of recorded women executions in more than 15 years. At least 30 women have been executed in 2025 so far.

In January 2025, IHRNGO published a report titled “Women and the Death Penalty in Iran; a Gendered Perspective,” which sheds light on the contemporary experiences of women like Goli Kouhkan facing the death penalty, focusing on the discriminatory laws and societal factors that perpetuate their suffering.

Source: Iran Human Rights, Staff, October 6, 2025

"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed,
but by the punishments that the good have inflicted."

— Oscar Wilde

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AnonymousOctober 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Hanging a young girl because of blood money shortage, a bunch of sick fuckers
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AnonymousOctober 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Sick fuckers
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