Iran executes man jailed for murder as minor
Arman Abdolali was sentenced to death after what Amnesty International said was a "grossly unfair trial" that relied on "torture-tainted confessions" he later withdrew.
An Iranian man convicted of murdering his girlfriend when he was a teenager was executed on Wednesday, despite an international outcry over his death sentence.
Arman Abdolali, 25, was hanged at dawn at the Rajai Shahr prison in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, according to Iran’s Mizan news agency.
Iranian authorities had accused Abdolali of murdering his girlfriend, Ghazaleh Shakoor, who disappeared in 2014 and whose body was never found. He was 17 at the time of her disappearance.
Abdolali was first sentenced in December 2015 following what Amnesty International described as “a grossly unfair trial” that relied on torture-induced confessions, which Abdolali later recanted.
