NCRI – A 27-year-old man hanged in southern city of Bandar-Abbas on Thrusday. The State-run daily Etemad, June 21, identified the young man by his first name; Farzad.
He was alleged to have committed murder three years ago and a number of armed robberies. Mullahs' judiciary also sentenced him to six years imprisonment, 74 lashes and payment of blood money.
His death sentence was carried out in Bandar-Abbas prison despite his protest.
Iranian regime has the highest number of executions in the world, second to China. The clerical regime is one of the very few countries in the world which executes juveniles and currently dozens of them are on the death raw.
On June 10, a 17-year-old boy by the name of Mohammad Hassan-Zadeh was hanged for a crime he had allegedly committed when he was only 14. His sentence was carried out in Sanandaj prison, Iranian Kurdistan in the west.
