Human rights group Amnesty International has called on Iran to halt the execution of child offenders.In a new report, it says Iran is the only country to have executed child offenders so far this year.
It lists the names of 71 other child offenders it says are known to be facing the death penalty.
The organisation defines a "child offender" as a person convicted of crimes they committed when they were under the age of 18.
In a report entitled Iran: the Last Executioner of Children, Amnesty says that since 1990, 24 child offenders have been executed in Iran - more than in any other country in the world.
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