A teenage boy has become the first juvenile to be hanged in iran this year.
Hassan Afshar was executed in Arak after he was convicted of raping another boy when he was 17.
The 19-year-old denied the charges during a two-month trial in which he had no access to a lawyer. Officials had promised to review his case in September.
He is one of 160 young offenders on death row in Iran, according to Amnesty International, but only the first to be executed this year.
Between 2005 and 2015, Iran put 75 juvenile offenders to death in breach of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child which prohibits the use of the death penalty.
Of the 977 people executed in Iran last year, most were killed on non-lethal charges, such as drugs-related crimes.
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