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Forgiveness: Iranian Juvenile Offender Milad Azimi Saved from Execution

7 Dec 18
Forgiveness: Iranian Juvenile Offender Milad Azimi Saved from Execution

Iran Human Rights (December 7, 2018): Milad Azimi, a juvenile offender who allegedly committed a murder at the age of 17, was forgiven by the plaintiffs on Thursday, December 6, 2018.

Milad's death sentence was upheld by the Iranian Supreme Court a few months ago. The plaintiff had set a diyeh (blood-money) of 500 million Toman (approximately 50.000 USD) with the deadline of December 4. Milad's family were not able to pay that amount of money. However, the local human rights defenders and civil society activists could motivate righteous people to help to collect money.

Read Milad’s story here:

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