Four Corners · SEASON 46

Execution of a Teenage Girl

Episode 26 · 2006-08-07

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Not long after dawn on August 15, 2004 a teenage girl was dragged through a town square in the Iranian provincial city of Neka, past a crowd of people to the spot where a mobile crane had been converted into a makeshift gallows. Atefah Sahaaleh was 16 years old. She was hanged that morning for crimes against chastity.

45 minutes

Season 46 episodes