U.N. panel rebukes Iran for allowing sex, execution at nine years old
Iran must reform its laws that allows girls as young as nine to be executed for crimes or forced into sexual relations with older husbands, a United Nations watchdog said on Thursday. Iran continues to execute children and youth who committed a crime while under 18 years of age, in violation of international standards, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child said, after its 18 independent experts reviewed Iran and 13 other countries. "The age of criminal responsibility in Iran is discriminatory, it is lower and lower for girls, that ...
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