Capital punishment Human rights in Iran
iran retains death penalty large number of offenses, among them cursing prophet, drug offenses, murder, , hadd crimes, including adultery, incest, rape, fornication, drinking alcohol, “sodomy”, same-sex sexual conduct between men without penetration, lesbianism, “being @ enmity god” (mohareb), , “corruption on earth” (mofsed-e-filarz).
although signatory international convention on civil , political rights (iccpr) , convention on rights of child (crc), states [the] sentence of death shall not imposed crimes committed persons below eighteen years of age.”, iran continues execute minors various offenses.
executions in iran more common in other middle eastern state, surpassing iran s nearest rival—saudi arabia—by order of magnitude, although iran s population on twice large saudi arabia s.
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