Middle East

Iran to Hang Abused Child Bride

Horrific

Razie Ebrahimi was just 17 when she killed her abusive husband to escape his blows—and the state wants to execute her for her crime.

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Languishing in a prison cell in southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, 21-year-old Razie Ebrahimi awaits her date with the gallows.

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For decades, Iran has been brazenly violating international law and sentencing an untold number of juvenile offenders to execution by hanging.

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