Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 12 Mondays 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.
Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Dec. 12 Mondays 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.
