Hanifeh Avandi, a 24-year-old Turkish woman from Tabriz, was reportedly executed in Iran on Sunday, April 19, amid claims she ...

She was sentenced to death under qisas, the Islamic legal principle of 'retaliation in kind'.

Married at 15, arrested at 17, child bride Zeineb Sekaanvand was tortured by the police for 20 days to coerce a confession.

The world should have been outraged by her execution, yet they were deathly silent, preferring to focus on other issues, as if it did not matter.

The ceremonies conducted late on Monday involved hundreds of couples in several major squares in the capital, including more ...