Despite appeals from rights groups such as Amnesty International, Iran executed a man who was arrested for murder at the age of 17 on Wednesday, according to the judiciary.
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According to the judiciary’s Mizan Online website, Arman Abdolali was executed at dawn in Rajai Shahr prison near Tehran, in accordance with the victim’s family’s demand for “qesas” eye-for-an-eye justice.