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Mosleh Zamani (also referred to as Moslah Zamani) was a 23-year-old Iranian Kurd who was executed on December 17, 2009 for having an "illicit relationship with his girlfriend" when he was 17 years old.
According to Amnesty International, Zamani was convicted of abducting a woman several years older than he was, with whom he had a consensual relationship, and of raping her. Amnesty International also states that Zamani might not have had legal representation in court.
Zamani's case raised strong controversies, both because of nature of his crime and the fact he was a minor at the time it took place. The Iranian government had signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child; because of this, it is prohibited from sentencing minors to death.