IRAN TO HANG AFGHAN YOUTH FOR CRIME COMMITTED AS MINOR
a young Afghan man is set to be executed on December 10 for a crime he committed as a minor, a semi-official daily reported.
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a young Afghan man is set to be executed on December 10 for a crime he committed as a minor, a semi-official daily reported.
Rostam Tajik, 20 years old, will be hanged in public in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, the hard-line daily Kayhan wrote.
Tajik was sentenced to death for the murder of a woman on May 13, 2001, when he was just 16 years old.
The report said that Tajik had initially fled to the town of Qazvin, west of Tehran, after the incident but was later apprehended.
Rostam Tajik, 20 years old, will be hanged in public in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, the hard-line daily Kayhan wrote.
Tajik was sentenced to death for the murder of a woman on May 13, 2001, when he was just 16 years old.
The report said that Tajik had initially fled to the town of Qazvin, west of Tehran, after the incident but was later apprehended.
— SOURCES
- (Sources: Iran Focus, 06/12/2005)
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