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In 2006, a teenage girl of the age of 16, Atefah Sahaaleh, was sentenced to death, and executed two weeks later by hanging in a public square for the charges of adultery and "crimes against chastity". [45] Death row prisoners sentenced while underage include at least one at 13-year-old (executed at 21) [46] and a 14-year-old (executed at 18). [47]
While there have been no executions since 2003, and the last death sentences were commuted by the Supreme Court in 2010, with nobody sentenced to death since then, there is no formal or informal moratorium or abolitionist policy, making the country still retentionist. [180] [181] [182] Dominica: 1986 N/A Executions by hanging. Death penalty for ...
On 5 December 2022, Karami and Hosseini were sentenced to death alongside three other men. The remaining eleven detainees, including the three juveniles, were sentenced to lengthy prison terms. The Supreme Court of Iran accepted appeals from three demonstrators, claiming inadequate investigations, on 3 January 2023. However, the death sentences ...
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence imposed on a member of the all-volunteer wing of the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who stormed a house during the 2022 protests over ...
Iran: 31 December 2024 [122] Ali Safai Zaideh Sarai murder: hanging: D Iraq: 25 September 2024 [123] 20 unnamed men and one unnamed woman terrorism: hanging: B Israel: 31 May 1962: Adolf Eichmann: crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people hanging: D Japan: 26 July 2022 [124] Tomohiro KatÅ: murder: hanging: D Jordan: 4 March ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -A Swedish appeals court on Tuesday upheld a guilty verdict and life sentence given to a former Iranian official convicted last year for his part in a mass execution of ...
IHR is investigating numerous unconfirmed reports of further killings and also expects dozens of executions of those arrested on arbitrary death sentences. [15] As of November 5, 2022, at least 314 people have been killed in protests in Iran, including 47 minors and 38 security forces, according to HRANA and more than 14,000 were arrested. [16]
An Iranian court cleared two jailed journalists of collaborating with the United States, and reduced their sentences over reports about a woman's death that had helped trigger protests in 2022 ...