Iranian authorities freed a woman who had been condemned to death over the killing of a husband she had married as a child, officials and activists said Friday. Activists said the woman's husband had been violent and that the woman had secured her release by paying his family.

Guardian story helped to draw attention to planned hanging of Goli Kouhkan over death of abusive husband

Iranian authorities freed a woman who had been condemned to death over the killing of a husband she had married as a child, officials and activists said Friday. Activists said the…