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Iran: Woman hanged in public, juvenile sentenced to death

Iran: Woman hanged in public, juvenile sentenced to deathNCRI – State-run daily IRAN reported today that a woman was hanged in public in western province of Lorestan for alledged murder. Farzaneh Sadeqi was sentenced to death by local judicial authorities and the sentence was carried out yesterday at 5:35 am local time, according to mullahs’ police report.

The same daily also reported today that death sentence for a young man, Qarib Rahman, has been approved by mullahs’ judiciary and he is on the verge of execution. He was also charged with murder that he denies.

Etemad state daily also reported that a 17-year-old boy from central city of Isfahan has been sentenced to death by the judiciary. The daily identified the boy by his first name only as Nemat.

Etemad also added that a 26 years old man in Tehran identified as Saber has also been condemned to death by hanging.

International bodies have condemned execution of juvenile in Iran and have expressed deep concern over the high number of executions by the religious dictatorship in that country. The number of executions have gone up since the appointment of Ahmadinejad as the president of the clerical regime.