"Mai Sato, UN special rapporteur on the situation for human rights in Iran, said: It's great that Kouhkan won't be executed one life has been saved but it doesn't really solve the issue of the qisas law, which is in violation of many international standards. Sato, along with three other UN experts, said earlier this month that the case exemplifies the systemic gender bias faced by women victims of child marriage and domestic violence within Iran's criminal justice system."
"Under Iranian law, a victim's family can pardon someone in return for blood money compensation payable in cases of murder or bodily harm. In a statement issued last month, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of Iran Human Rights, said: The blood-money amount set for her case is several times the official rate, an impossible sum for a young, undocumented Baluch woman from a deprived background who has also been rejected by her family."
Goli Kouhkan, 25, faced execution in Iran for allegedly participating in the killing of her abusive husband in May 2018 and had been on death row for seven years. His parents accepted 70,000 in compensation, sparing her life under qisas provisions that allow family pardon in exchange for blood money. UN experts and rights groups criticized qisas as violating international standards and exemplifying systemic gender bias toward women who endure child marriage and domestic violence. Kouhkan, an undocumented member of the Baluch minority, was forced to marry at 12, became pregnant at 13, and suffered years of abuse before the fatal altercation.
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