Friday, July 19, 2013

Edgy new play spotlights death row teens in Iran

Iranian theater director Amin Miri, third from left in second row, poses with his theater group prior to their performance of "The Blue Feeling of Death,’’ outside the theater hall in Arasbaran Cultural Center in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, July 18, 2013. The production opened last month as a showcase of activist art against Iran's legal codes that allow death sentences for children _ who then wait until their 18th birthday for possible execution. Opening night came even as Iranian officials tightened controls on the social media and other forms of political opposition before presidential elections, whose centrist winner, Hasan Rouhani, has brought hope of reversing some of the crackdowns. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The curtain opens. Six nooses hang above a group of teenage inmates, who are making chairs in a prison workshop to be used as platforms in their own hangings. The audience gasps.








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