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Iranian man flogged 80 times for drinking alcohol as a child

More than 100 offences are punishable by flogging under Iran's Islamic penal code. [Courtesy]

Amnesty International has condemned the Iranian authorities for publicly flogging a man who was convicted of consuming alcohol when he was 14 or 15.

Local media published photographs of the man - identified only as "M R" - being given 80 lashes in a square in the eastern city of Kashmar on Tuesday.

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