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 ...

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 execution of ...

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 ...

June 18, 2008

114 Child Offenders Awaiting Hangman’s Noose

(18 June 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published a list of 114 child offenders awaiting execution in Iran today, the first time such a list has been made available detailing the practice, which has been banned in all but a handful ...

February 5, 2008