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IRAN. YOUNG MAN HANGED IN PUBLIC FOR TEENAGE CRIME

A public hanging in Iran

13 September 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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Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.