The Iranian parliament passed legislation introducing...

The Iranian parliament passed legislation introducing the death penalty as maximum punishment for those found guilty of human trafficking. The legislation clarified human trafficking as importing or exporting human beings for financial purposes, marriage, slavery, the selling of organs or to force them into prostitution. Any organized group involved in trafficking human beings, sheltering them, hiding them for prostitution or any other purposes even with the consent of the victims would be held responsible of human trafficking and those involved subject to the maximum punishment of death.