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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – A
partially blind and deaf man was hanged in public in Tehran, a
semi-official daily reported on Saturday.
Twenty two-year-old Behrouz Mehranpour
was accused of killing two relatives when he was only 17, the hard-line
daily Jomhouri Islami
wrote.
Iran has executed
at least eight individuals who were under the age of 18 when they allegedly
committed their crimes in 2005, according to Amnesty International.
On 9 December, Philip Alston, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or
arbitrary executions, described Tehran’s approach to
dealing with child offenders as “particularly unacceptable”.
At least two other women have been sentenced to death by hanging over the
past two weeks for crimes they allegedly committed when they were minors.
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