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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Several countries have accused Iran of violating United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which was adopted with full support of the sitting members in July 2015 and seeks to inspect the Iranian nuclear program in preparation for ending United Nations sanctions against Iran. Additionally, Ukraine and the United States, among others ...
Amnesty further called for "the international community" to pressure Iran to cease handing down death sentences and carrying out executions. [ 13 ] Masih Alinejad , a United States-based dissident, called on the European Union to recall their ambassadors in the wake of the execution while saying, "Majidreza Rahnavard's crime was protesting the ...