They were executed after being convicted by the court of having raped a year-old boy. Shari'a Islamic Law in Shiite Iran prescribes the death penalty for homosexual acts but it requires four eye witnesses to the event, but the Convention on the Rights of the Child , of which Iran is a signatory, forbids the execution of juveniles. According to Asgari's lawyer, Rohollah Razaz Zadeh, "death sentences handed to children by Iranian courts are supposed to be commuted to five years in jail", [4] but the Supreme Court in Tehran upheld the death sentence. The ages of the boys remain unclear, with some sources claiming they were fourteen and sixteen at the time of their arrests and sixteen and eighteen when executed, and others claiming that the older boy, Marhoni, was already nineteen, and therefore not a minor, when the alleged crime s took place. It gave a detailed account of how the two had raped a year-old boy, and included statements by the father of the rape victim. The ISNA article became the center of the dispute.

Or alternatively hold down the Ctrl key and scroll up or down with the mouse. Amnesty International has revealed that a teenager has been executed in Iran after being convicted of the rape of another boy, the first confirmed execution of a child offender in Iran this year. His execution had been due to take place yesterday, but was postponed following public pressure. Hassan Afshar was arrested in December after the authorities received a complaint accusing him and two other youths of forcing a teenage boy to have sexual intercourse with them. While the authorities must always investigate allegations of rape and prosecute those responsible in fair trials, rape does not fall into the category of offences for which the death penalty can be imposed under international law.

CNN Iran secretly executed two teenagers last week, according to rights group Amnesty International, which criticized the country for its "utter disdain for international law and the rights of children. Iranian flags flying during National Army Day in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran on April The year-old cousins, Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat, were executed on April 25 at a prison in the southern city of Shiraz "following an unfair trial," Amnesty said in a statement on Monday. The teens had been convicted on multiple rape charges. Iran did not immediately respond to CNN's request for comment.

Saturday, July 23, International controversy erupted after Iranian officials executed two gay teenagers who were originally reported to be convicted of homosexuality, however later reports released by the Iranian government after international furor claimed the conviction was for the rape of a year-old boy. The two were hanged July Only the age of one of the two executed teens was officially released to the public. He was 18 year old Ayaz Marhoni.