Iran to execute 19-year-old mentally aged 8
amnesty international - 29.12.2004 13:39
A 19-year old girl, “Leyla M”, who has a mental age of eight, reportedly faces imminent execution for “morality-related” offences after being forced into prostitution by her mother as a child. According to a Tehran newspaper report of 28 November, she was sentenced to death by a court in the central Iranian city of Arak and the sentence has now been passed to the Supreme Court for confirmation.
the amnesty international press release on the case is at  http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news/press/15803.shtml.
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