Report: Iran minors sentenced to death
By KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writer Tue Jun 17, 6:44 PM ET
CAIRO, Egypt - Iran has sentenced 177 people under the age of 18 to death over the past decade and has executed nearly three dozen of them, a human rights group said Tuesday.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published on its Web site a list of the 114 minors who still remain in prison awaiting execution, some of whom are now older than 18. The youngest person on the list was a 12-year-old boy sentenced by a court in 2005. The group did not specify what crime he was convicted of.
Aaron Rhodes, a spokesman for the group in Vienna, Austria, said the campaign has called on the international community to take steps to press Iran to abolish the executions.
Rhodes said many of the death sentences were based on confessions obtained from defendants under torture or interrogations in which they had no access to a lawyer.
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propoganda or not , the hanging of minors , especially those in their early teens is an abomination and should be stopped.
Death penalty to a 12 yr old?? Damn!!
Somebody told me, "You are what you eat".Now I know why I'm nuts!!
Of course it is, nothing evil happens in the Mohammaden lands. It is a land of angels and fairies (and queers do not exist).
PROPOGANDA...YAWN.... if they were not homosexuals.
"He who does not thank people, does not thank Allah" prophet Muhammed (pbuh)