Petition murderers of Iranian teenagers

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Communique (petition)The Islamic Republic of Iran once again demonstrates its contempt for human rights by sentencing three more teenagers to death. Not content with the merciless recent execution of the sixteen year old Atefeh Rajabi , the Iranian authorities plan to execute Ali M, Morteza F and Milad B – all of whom are under the age of eighteen and are currently in detention. Execution of children is prohibited by Article 37 of the International Human Rights (Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989). We, the undersigned, express our unreserved condemnation of these executions, and call upon human rights organizations to pressure the Iranian government to stop these barbaric acts. :

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ahhh..first things first.

What did they do?

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December 09, 2004 Sign the Petition ahhh..first things first. What did they do?

for the girl pictured, having sex as usual. The others I am not sure about but knowing those Mullahs it won't be anything that warrants hanging.

A 16-year-old girl, Ateqeh Rajabi (also known as Atefeh Rajabi, Atefeh Sahaleh) was publicly hanged on a street in the city centre of Neka in Iran, on August 15, 2004, for her crime of "act incompatible with chastity" (amal-e manafe-ye ‘ofat). Also known as pre-marital sex. The young girl was hung from a crane in the main square, in full public view, in order to keep "society safe from acts against public morality". Her dead body was deliberately left dangling in the air for 45 minutes. At her trial, the teenager did not have a lawyer and efforts by her family to recruit one failed. Her foster father Ghassem Rajabi, was unable to pay for a lawyer. With tears in his eyes he went about the town, pleading to people for money to hire a lawyer, who in the very least would provide his foster daughter with some line of defence. But in the end, Ateqeh had to personally defended herself. Ateqeh told the religious judge, Haji Rezaii, a fundamentalist Muslim cleric, that he should punish the main perpetrators of moral corruption, rather than punish the victims. She took off her headscarf and insisted that she was the victim of an older man's advances. But, her courageous defence angered the judge, who also severely criticised her dress by harshly reprimanding her. The judge then sentenced her to death. Informed sources revealed that Ateqeh was sentenced to death by judge Rezaii, because during the trial she expressed outrage at the misogyny and injustice in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its Islam-based judicial system.
http://www.angelfire.com/stars/dorina/hang.html