Iran executes child bride who killed abusive husband

TEHRAN, Iran

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.