December 17, 1999 - Amirhossein Pourjafar
The case drew international attention not only for the severity of the crime — the rape and murder of a seven-year-old girl from Iran's Afghan minority community — but for the legal and ethical questions surrounding the execution of a juvenile offender. He was sixteen at the time of the offense and was put to death days after turning eighteen, a sequence that placed the case at the intersection of criminal justice, child rights, and Iran's treatment of its Afghan population.
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Amirhossein Pourjafar (also stylised as Amir Hossein Pourjafar, 17 December 1999 – 4 January 2018) was an Iranian juvenile offender who was sentenced to death and executed for the 2016 rape and murder of Setayesh Ghoreyshi, a 7-year-old girl from Iran's Afghan community. Pourjafar was 16 years old at the time of the murder and was executed shortly after his 18th birthday. Pourjafar's execution sparked international outrage and renewed questions about the ethics of the death penalty.
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