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Azizullah Shenwari, 14, was sentenced to death on drug...

Azizullah Shenwari, 14, was sentenced to death on drug charges

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Azizullah Shenwari, 14, was sentenced to death on drug charges. The boy had disappeared from his home in Peshawar, Pakistan, in November 1999, his father, Majeed Khan Shenwari, told reporters. In November 2000, the family received a letter from an Iranian jail saying that the boy had been arrested in Iran on charges of drug trafficking and sentenced to death by an Iranian court.
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  • (Sources: Agence Presse, 14/06/2001)