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Iran to hang 16-year-old schoolboy

Wed. 24 Aug 2005

Iran Focus
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3448

Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – Iran’s clergy-dominated Supreme Court has given the green light for the hanging of a 16-year-old schoolboy in Tehran, a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday.

The boy, identified only by his first name Mostafa, was convicted of killing a man in a scuffle that began when the boy tried to save a girl who was being harassed by the drunken man, the daily Etemaad reported.

Mostafa, who had no criminal record, told the Islamic judge that when he saw the drunken man insult and harass a young girl near his home in Tehran Pars district, he intervened and tried to save the girl, but the foul-mouthed man began to beat him. In the brawl that followed, Mostafa killed the man.

The hanging of the sixteen-year-old boy is expected to take place in the next few days, now that the death sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court.

Several other minors have been sentenced to death or executed since hard-line Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won the race to become Iran’s president.

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Iran hangs four men aged between 17 and 23
Tue. 23 Aug 2005

Iran Focus
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3443

Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 – Four young men between the ages of 17 and 23 were hanged in public in the port city of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, on Tuesday, according to the state-owned daily Kayhan.

News of the hanging was posted on the ultra-Islamist daily’s website late on Tuesday. The four were identified only by their initials. Two of them received 74 lashes in public before their execution, the daily reported.

All four were accused of sex offences and theft. The daily quoted an unnamed Justice Ministry official as saying that the reason why young men were committing so many sex offences was that “they are not aware of the punishment for their offences under Islamic laws”.

Hours earlier, Kayhan reported that four other men had been sentenced to death in the southern city of Kerman. Iran’s state-owned newspapers have reported that 23 persons have been hanged or sentenced to death in the past month. At least three of them were minors.

The hanging of two gay young men in the city of Mashad last month caused an international uproar. One of the victims was a minor and the other one was 18 years old.

On July 14, Kayhan reported that a 20-year-old, called Ali Saffarpour Rajabi, was hanged in public in the town of Pol Dokhtar, western Iran, charged with killing a Revolutionary Guards officer when he was 16 years old.