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Tag : juvenile executions

June 5, 2024

Iran Quietly Prepares Six More for the Gallows as Presidential Election Looms

Juvenile Offender Among Those Reported to be Hanged Three Quarters of Recorded Executions Worldwide Last Year Were in Iran June 5, 2024 – Iran’s upcoming ...

November 24, 2021

UN Calls on Iran to Commute Death Sentences Against Child Offenders Upon Execution of Arman Abdolali

The United Nations has strongly condemned the execution of child offender Arman Abdolali in a press release republished below. Comment by UN Human Rights Office ...

July 16, 2019

Fact Sheet: Children in Iran Are Unprotected from Abuse and Severe Rights Violations

July 16, 2019—At a time when international headlines are focused on Iran, little attention is given to the millions of children in the country who are subjected to a broad range of abuses and rights violations, ...

February 26, 2019

UN: Iran Must Halt Execution of Child Offender Mohammad Kalhori

UN, Geneva, February 21, 2019 -- Iran must immediately halt the imminent execution of child offender Mohammad Kalhori, say a group of UN human ...

October 2, 2018

Young Woman Put to Death in Iran for Crime Committed as Juvenile

Zeinab Sekaanvand is Fifth Known Juvenile Offender Executed in Past Year October 2, 2018 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) condemns the ...

September 11, 2018

From Evin Prison, Attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh Condemns Iran’s Execution of Three Kurdish Prisoners

In a letter from Iran’s Evin Prison, prominent human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has condemned the judiciary’s ...

July 10, 2018

Execution of Young Man for Crime Committed at Age 14 Shows Iran’s Blatant Disregard for Children’s Rights

Iran is one of world’s few countries executing juveniles; dozens currently on death row July 10, 2018—The execution of 19-year-old Chezani Sharahi by hanging ...

July 3, 2018

Young Man Sentenced As Juvenile Executed in Iran Despite Case Ambiguities

Abolfazl Chezani Sharahi, 19, was hanged in Iran’s Central Prison in the city of Qom on June 27, 2018, despite serious concerns about how his ...

June 28, 2018

UN High Commissioner For Human Rights Appalled by Execution of Juvenile Offenders in Iran

Zeid Raad Al Hussein is the high commissioner of the Office of the United Nations ...

February 27, 2018

Iranian Criminal Court Sentenced Juvenile Offender to Death on Education Minister and MP’s Recommendation

Case Highlights Violations of Domestic and International Law and Judiciary’s Lack of Independence February 27, 2018–A young man who was incarcerated at 15 ...

January 5, 2018

Iran Executes 19-Year-Old Charged as Juvenile in Violation of Two International Treaties

Ignoring pleas by international organizations and in violation of two international treaties, Iran ...

August 10, 2017

Iran Executes Man Arrested at 15 Despite Commitment to Stop Executing Juveniles

Prominent Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh: Case Had “Serious Holes” August 10, 2017–Iran has violated its international obligations by executing Alireza Tajiki, who was 15-years-old when he was arrested and 16 ...

February 13, 2017

Iran’s Judiciary Commutes Death Sentences of Some Juvenile Offenders

The Iranian judiciary has agreed to commute the death sentences of six people who were sentenced to death while they were juveniles while ...

June 20, 2014

Halt Execution of 33 Sunnis, Request Rights Groups

Eighteen rights groups issued a joint statement to demand a halt on execution of 33 Sunni death row inmates, noting unfair trials. ...

September 26, 2011

Weekly Rights Podcast 37

In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: The Campaign speaks out about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the UN General Assembly in New York; American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are released from prison; seven documentary filmmakers are arrested and charged with espionage on ...

September 22, 2011

“Stop Executions,” Four UN Human Rights Experts Tell Iran

On 22 September 2011 four United Nations Special Rapporteurs for executions, torture, human rights in Iran, and independence of the judiciary, issued a joint statement condemning Iran’s recent execution of a ...

May 20, 2009

Iranian Rights Defender Receives Martin Ennals Award

(21 May 2009) – The decision to present the prestigious Martin Ennals Award this year to Emad Baghi for his work on prisoners’ rights and efforts to end the death penalty will help focus international attention on the perilous human rights situation in Iran, Human ...

May 1, 2009

Delara Darabi, Juvenile Offender, Executed in Rasht

(1 May 2009) Delara Darabi, who was charged at the age of 17 with murder, was executed today in Rasht. Darabi was 22 years old. Authorities did not inform her lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, that her execution was being carried out. According to Iranian ...

April 21, 2009

National Call to Action by The Defenders of Human Rights Center

The Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) has issued a national call to action titled: “Stop Child Executions” demanding the end to child and juvenile executions. This national call to action is the third of such nationally focused efforts spearheaded by the Defenders of Human ...

April 17, 2009

Death Sentences for Juvenile Offenders Continue

(17 April 2009) Twenty-two year old Delara Darabi is at imminent risk of execution for a crime she allegedly committed at age seventeen, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Her lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, had previously not been informed of the date Darabi’s ...

December 18, 2008

United Nations General Assembly “Deeply Concerned” about Human Rights Conditions

(18 December 2008) By a vote of 69 to 54 the United Nations General Assembly has repudiated and expressed “deep concern” for Iran’s human rights record. The Resolution cited inter alia documented cases of torture; the high incidence of executions and juvenile executions without proper ...

August 2, 2008

Emad Baghi’s Letter to the Judiciary

Letter by Emad Baghi to Head of the Judiciary, Ayatollah Shahroudi, about the jurisprudential process of capital punishment. ...

July 30, 2008

End Executions of Juvenile Offenders

(Geneva, 30 July, 2008) The Iranian judiciary should immediately halt all executions of juvenile offenders and Iran’s parliament should move swiftly to ban such executions, a group of human rights organizations said today. The groups, which include Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Campaign ...

July 21, 2008

Juvenile Offender faces Imminent Execution despite Retraction of Sentence

(21 July 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is calling on the Iranian Judiciary to halt the imminent execution of Abu Moslem Sohrabi for a crime he allegedly committed at the age of 17. Local officials are reportedly proceeding with plans ...

July 8, 2008

Spare Four Youths From Execution

(Geneva, 08 July 2008) Today 24 international and regional human rights organizations called on Iranian authorities to spare four youths facing execution and to stop imposing the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile offenders – persons who commit crimes while under the age of ...

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