Daily Digest Online

United Nations human rights experts have issued an urgent appeal for Iran to stop the execution of a woman who killed her abusive husband, highlighting that she was forced into marriage at age 12 and represents a victim of systemic gender-based injustice. United Nations human rights experts are calling on Iran to immediately halt the scheduled execution of Goli Kouhkan, a 25-year-old woman sentenced to death for killing her abusive husband, whom she was forced to marry as a child. In a statement issued Wednesday, eight independent UN experts declared that executing Kouhkan would constitute “a grave violation of international human rights law.” They emphasized that her case “exemplifies the systemic gender bias faced by women victims of child marriage and domestic violence within Iran's criminal justice system.” Kouhkan, an undocumented woman from the Baluch minority, was forced to marry her cousin at age 12. She gave birth at 13 and endured years...