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Iran Focus
 Tehran, Iran,
Dec. 12 – Monday’s edition of the state-run daily Hamshahri carried the photo
of a young Afghan who was hanged in public on Saturday for a crime he was
alleged to have committed as a minor.
Rostam Tajik, 20, was hanged in a public park in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, the state-run
news agency reported on Saturday. The sentence was carried out in the
presence of judicial officials.
Tajik was sentenced to death for the murder of a woman on May 13, 2001, when
he was 16 years old.
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