An Iranian child bride who was
forced to marry at 15 has been hanged in Iran for
murdering her husband who had abused her for years.
Samira Sabzian, 29, who
had been in prison for the past decade, was executed at dawn in Ghezel Hesar
prison in the Tehran city of Karaj, the Norway-based Iran Human rights group
(IHR) said.
Sabzian, from the city of
Khorramabad in western Iran, was forced to marry her husband when she was just
15. In the years that ensued, the girl became the victim of domestic violence, her relatives said.
After four years of abuse, the
mother-of two murdered her husband in 2013 when she was 19 years old and was
sent to prison where she remained for ten years.
Today, Sabzian was executed by
the Iranian regime - despite pleas from Britain, the UN and international human
rights groups to spare the child bride.
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