Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Feb 12
According Human Rights Watch (HRW), 18-year-old Amirhossein Pourjafa was hanged on 4 January in the northern town of Karaj for the alleged rape and murder of a three-year-old girl when he was 16.
On 30 January, 20-year-old Mahboubeh Mofidi of Nowshahr – married off at 13 was executed for allegedly killing her husband at the age of 17. Also on 30 January, in Bushehr in Iran’s south, Ali Kazemi was hanged for killing someone in a street fight when he was 15.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated that Iran is one of only four countries that have executed offenders since 2013.
Human Rights Watch has called on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s judiciary to stop executions, and to abolish the death penalty.
