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Iran
Focus
 Tehran, Iran, Apr. 19 –Iran’s State Supreme Court has
upheld the execution sentence of a young man, a state-run news agency
reported on Wednesday.
The young man was only identified as 20-year-old Yadollah.
He was accused of stabbing to death an acquaintance over a financial dispute
in October 2004 when he was a teenager, according to the news agency ISNA.
On Tuesday, ISNA reported that a court in Tehran sentenced 19-year-old Faraz A. to hanging. He was accused of murder.
Meanwhile, the state-run daily Iran reported that two young men,
identified as Sourosh and Nader,
were sentenced to hanging.
There was also a separate report that the execution sentence of another man,
identified as 56-year-old Hamid-Reza B., was upheld
by the State Supreme Court. He
was accused of murdering
a 70-year-old woman.
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