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IRAN. YOUNG MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR TEENAGE CRIME
September 12, 2005: a young man was hanged in public in the southern town of Kazeroun, in Fars Province, for a crime he had committed when he was a minor.
The unidentified man was 22 years old and from the village of Doost-Iran-Nodan. He had been found guilty of rape in the year 2000 when he was 17 years of age, the daily Etemaad wrote.
He was hanged in public in Shohada Square at 8 am. (Sources: Iran Focus, 13/09/2005)
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