Asia-Iranian hangs anyway

Spared by chief justice, Iranian hangs anyway
Young man executed after 'victims' recant allegations of teen sex crimes
MSNBC
Less than a month after Iran’s chief justice spared the life of a 21-year-old condemned to die for sex crimes allegedly committed at age 13, the young man was reportedly hanged Wednesday morning at a prison in Kermanshah province.
"This is a shameful and outrageous travesty of justice and international human rights law," said Paula Ettelbrick, executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, one of a number of human rights watchdogs that had focused attention on the case. Just last month, Ettelbrick had labeled the reversal of the young man’s death sentence a “stunning victory for human rights and a reminder of the power of global protest.”
Word of Makvan Mouloodzadeh’s death came from family members who were notified by prison authorities and relayed the news to his attorney, Saeid Eghbali, who in turn passed it along to Western contacts. The execution also was reported on the Persian language Web site of Mitra Khalatbari, a Tehran-based journalist who first reported on the case in Iran.