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Many Were Child Brides Hanged for Murder of Abusive Husbands From Whom There Was No Protection  December 18, 2024 — Amidst a huge surge in executions in the Islamic Republic— 862 so far in 2024, the highest per capita execution rate globally—the Iranian authorities are now increasingly including women in those it sends to the gallows. Since the start of 2024, Iran has executed at least 29 women. More executions of women may have taken place that are unknown.
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Iranian man Saeed Malekpour convicted for porn site escapes death

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Malekpour faces life in prison after confession on Iranian TV

Tehran: The lawyer of a man convicted of building and promoting pornographic websites says a death sentence against his client has been converted to life imprisonment.

Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei is quoted by the semi-official Mehr news agency, which is often used by the government to make announcements, as saying on Monday that blogger Saeed Malekpour will spend the rest of his life in jail.

Malekpour was arrested in 2008 and confessed on Iranian TV that he developed and promoted pornographic websites. He was found guilty in 2012 of spreading corruption and sentenced to death.

Tabatabaei said the Iranian-Canadian computer programmer has repented. Iranian media have called Malekpour the head of the biggest Persian-language network of pornographic websites.

Source: The Associated Press, August 26, 2013

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Iran: Inmate hanged in Ahwaz

Iran Human Rights, August 24: One prisoner was hanged in the prison of Ahwaz (southwestern Iran), reported the Iranian state media today.

According to Jamnews the prisoner was identified as "Saeed Geshtil" and was convicted of possession and trafficking of 11 kilograms of heroin. 

Source: Iran Human Rights, August 24, 2013
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