Asma Zarei, 28, was accused of deliberately murdering her husband and was sentenced to death by Iran's Criminal Court.

Asma Zarei, 28, was accused of the premeditated murder of her husband and sentenced to die by hanging in Iran, becoming the ...

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Asma Zarei was hanged at dawn on Wednesday at Ardabil Central Prison in northwestern Iran, after being convicted of murdering her husband — her two-year-old child had spent their entire life behind ba ...

The three cases, unfolding within 24 hours, share a disturbing set of commonalities: fundamentally unfair sentencing proceedings, defendants whose severe mental illness, unaddressed childhood trauma ...