Juvenile Executions
Jun 28 2007, Vikas Shekhawat

24 children have already been throttled to death in Iran since 1990 and 71 more are in the list ready to face the execution, if you’re able to read between the lines, do not ask about those executions which generally go unreported. But in a recent report...

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