{"id":3492412,"date":"2008-08-10T00:45:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T16:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=3492412"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:16:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:16:29","slug":"iranian-juvenile-sentenced-to-death-for-homsexual-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2008\/08\/10\/iranian-juvenile-sentenced-to-death-for-homsexual-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian juvenile sentenced to death for homsexual act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>17 year old Mehdi Pouran along with 3 other young boys&#160;(Hamid Taaghi, Ebrahim Hamidi, Mohammad Rezai) were sentenced to death for alleged homosexual act in May 2008.&#160; All 4 boys have denied the charge by the plaintiffs and claim that they have&#160;made up the story because of the argument that&#160;had after they got in to fight with the boys because the plaintiffs&#160;were vandalizing the agricultural land of Mohammad Rezai&#8217;s father. According to the boys later the&#160;local police&#160;in few occasions tried to&#160;obtain their&#160;confession by beating and&#160;torture which they still refused.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>The boys who&#160;were released on bail after one month imprisonment appeared&#160;at the 2nd branch of&#160;Penal court of Northern city of Tabriz in Eastern Azerbaijan province.&#160;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scenews.blog.com\/3485563\/\" rel=\"noopener\">According to their new attorney<\/a>, Mohammad Mostafaei, three family members of the complainant falsely testified in the court.<\/p>\n<p>The death sentences were&#160;ordered on July 20, 2008 by the Islamic&#160;judges based on Iran&#8217;s Sharia Law which allows such sentencing without sufficient proof or witnesses but only based on &#8220;&#8216;Judges understanding&#8221; (Elme Ghazi) of the case!&#160;&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>17 year old Mehdi Pouran along with 3 other young boys&#160;(Hamid Taaghi, Ebrahim Hamidi, Mohammad Rezai) were sentenced to death for alleged homosexual act in May 2008.&#160; All 4 boys have denied the charge by the plaintiffs and claim that they have&#160;made up the story because of the argument that&#160;had after they got in to fight with the boys because the plaintiffs&#160;were vandalizing the agricultural land of Mohammad Rezai&#8217;s father. According to the boys later the&#160;local police&#160;in few occasions tried to&#160;obtain their&#160;confession by beating and&#160;torture which they still refused.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>The boys who&#160;were released on bail after one month imprisonment appeared&#160;at the 2nd branch of&#160;Penal court of Northern city of Tabriz in Eastern Azerbaijan province.&#160;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scenews.blog.com\/3485563\/\" rel=\"noopener\">According to their new attorney<\/a>, Mohammad Mostafaei, three family members of the complainant falsely testified in the court.<\/p>\n<p>The death sentences were&#160;ordered on July 20, 2008 by the Islamic&#160;judges based on Iran&#8217;s Sharia Law which allows such sentencing without sufficient proof or witnesses but only based on &#8220;&#8216;Judges understanding&#8221; (Elme Ghazi) of the case!&#160;&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[77,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3492412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5195810,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3492412\/revisions\/5195810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3492412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3492412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3492412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}