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Iran president under scrutiny over juvenile executions

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a news conference in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 26, 2016

The case presented by the Iranian judiciary was simple: In the southern province of Fars, Fatemeh Salbehi suffocated her husband after drugging him, a capital crime in the Islamic Republic.

What made the case controversial is that Salbehi was only 17, a minor by international legal standards, when she allegedly committed the crime. Her alleged confession also came during a series of interrogations where there was no lawyer present.

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