Mosleh Zamani
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Mosleh Zamani (also referred to as Moslah Zamani) is a 21-year old Iranian-Kurdish boy at the risk of imminent execution for adultery. According to Iranian Criminal Code all sexual relations outside marriage are adulterous. In his case this was a relationship with his girlfriend.
Zamani was arrested at age of 17 and spent 4 years awaiting verdict. Recently, his death sentence was upheld and he could be executed at any time.
Zamani's case raised strong controversies, both because of nature of his crime and the fact he was minor at the time it took place. The Iranian government had signed the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and, because of this, is prohibited from sentencing minors to death.
The only person who has the authority to commute Zamani's death sentence is Iranian Head of the Judiciary Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.
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