Iran: Fear of imminent execution/fear of flogging, Leyla M

Iran: Fear of imminent execution/fear of flogging, Leyla M

Index Number: MDE 13/048/2004
Date Published: 10 December 2004
Categories: Iran, Middle East And North Africa

"Leyla M", who has a mental age of eight, is reportedly facing imminent execution for "morality-related" offences arising from her being forced into prostitution as a child. According to a Tehran newspaper report of 28 November, she was sentenced to death by a court in the central Iranian city of Arak while she was 18, and the sentence has now been passed to the Supreme Court for confirmation.