Child Bride to be executed for killing husband In Iran

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Zeinab Sokian,  an Iranian child married off to her husband at the age of 15 is to be killed by the Iranian government.

In 2012, Zeineb was sentenced to death  for the alleged murder of her husband.

The woman who claimed her husband was abusive to her, was on death row in jail until she married another man, got pregnant and swiftly overturned the judgement because  the Iranian law does not execute pregnant women.

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Zeineb, whose death sentence has been suspended till she delivered of her baby, recently  birthed a still born child.

She went into labor in Euromieh central prison, on 30th, September, 2016.

She is likely to be hanged in a few weeks.

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