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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran,
Jan. 06 – The Persian-language website Hambastegi
Meli reported on Friday that in Karaj, west of
the Iranian capital, a 17-year-old girl, identified only as Nazanin, was sentenced to be hanged. The verdict was
handed down in branch 71 of Iran’s
Islamic courts, the report said.
The hard-line daily Kayhan reported separately on
Thursday that a 22-year-old woman, identified only by her first name Afsaneh, was sentenced to death by hanging along with
two men in the city of Qazvin,
west of Tehran.
Afsaneh was accused of seducing the men to murder
her husband. She
was 18 at the time.
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