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Iran Leads the World in Executing Children

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Sunday June 24, 2007 22:07author by Gregori Chicherin Report this post to the editors

New Executions Highlight Arbitrary Nature of Iranian Justice

No, its not just the Great Satan - the USA who executes those convicted of crimes committed while they were under 18, Iran does so as well. The difference is that Iran actually executes children aged under 18. Not just murderers, if you have sex outside of marriage or are gay it doesnt matter what age you are: The Mullahs will hang you or stone you to death.

Iran’s highest judicial authorities have repeatedly upheld death sentences handed down to juvenile offenders charged with committing crimes when they were as young as 15. Such sentences violate Iran’s international treaty obligations, which prohibit the death penalty for crimes committed by people under 18. In some cases, the death sentences also violate Iranian domestic law requiring that children under 18 be tried before special juvenile courts.

“Iran holds the deplorable distinction of leading the world in juvenile executions, and the authorities should end this practice at once,” said Clarisa Bencomo, children’s rights researcher on the Middle East at Human Rights Watch. “The Iranian government needs to stop sending children to the gallows and start living up to its international obligations by issuing clear legislation to ban the juvenile death penalty.”

Iranian authorities executed 17-year-old Sa'id Qanbar Zahi in Zahedan on May 27. According to press accounts, Zahi’s arrest, confession, trial, sentencing, and execution took place in the space of a few weeks. If true, these factors raise serious doubts that the 17-year-old was able to mount a meaningful defense, and raise further serious concerns about whether other basic fair trial standards were met.

Related Link: http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/06/20/iran16211.htm

 #   Title   Author   Date 
   How many are we talking about here?     Feudal castrato    Mon Jun 25, 2007 00:10 
   UN Rights Council Fails Victims in Iran, Uzbekistan     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:43 
   Rock and a hard place     Shep    Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:36 
   JIm     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:37 
   THE WHOLE TRUTH     Jim O'Sullivan    Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:55 
   Human rights abuse in Iran     pinkie    Mon Jun 25, 2007 13:03 
   Shooting the messenger?     Val    Mon Jun 25, 2007 13:51 
   Val     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 13:58 
   Justice for all     Jim O'Sullivan    Mon Jun 25, 2007 14:00 
 10   Israel executes them too     Eamon    Mon Jun 25, 2007 14:12 
 11   Way off.     Val    Mon Jun 25, 2007 14:25 
 12   Mask has slipped.     JimO'Sullivan    Mon Jun 25, 2007 14:25 
 13   Iran: No more empty promises – no more child executions     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 14:25 
 14   Very strange     Val    Mon Jun 25, 2007 14:40 
 15   Still stunned and still laughing!     pinkie    Mon Jun 25, 2007 14:49 
 16   Jim     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 14:54 
 17   Val     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 15:00 
 18   The rants of a 2 year old.     Val    Mon Jun 25, 2007 15:05 
 19   Utter Bolix     Val    Mon Jun 25, 2007 15:11 
 20   Write to Iranian Ambassador     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 15:17 
 21   Val     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 15:25 
 22   To Chicherin     davekey    Mon Jun 25, 2007 15:34 
 23   Clearly unhinged and not playing with the full deck.     Val    Mon Jun 25, 2007 15:48 
 24   Val     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 15:55 
 25   To Chicherin     davekey    Mon Jun 25, 2007 16:43 
 26   davekey     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 17:16 
 27   Word twisting     Jim O'Sullivan    Mon Jun 25, 2007 17:22 
 28   US imperialism doesn't justify Iranian oppression     Aragon    Mon Jun 25, 2007 17:25 
 29   2005 - 2006 comparison links     someone else    Mon Jun 25, 2007 17:31 
 30   Jim     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 17:38 
 31   C     Val    Mon Jun 25, 2007 18:36 
 32   Val     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 18:44 
 33   To Chicherin     davekey    Mon Jun 25, 2007 18:51 
 34   Davekey     Chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 19:01 
 35   davekey     chicherin    Mon Jun 25, 2007 19:13 
 36   To Chicherin     davekey    Mon Jun 25, 2007 19:23 
 37   Davekey     Chicherin    Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:09 
 38   Herd mentality     paddytheplank    Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:46 
 39   Stick to your own analysis, if you can     paddytheplank    Tue Jun 26, 2007 11:53 
 40   Paddy     Chicherin    Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:26 
 41   Pakistan executes the youngest children     Saoirse    Tue Jun 26, 2007 14:15 
 42   Saorise     Chicherin    Tue Jun 26, 2007 14:30 
 43   Not possible     paddytheplank    Tue Jun 26, 2007 14:30 
 44   Paddy     Chicherin    Tue Jun 26, 2007 14:37 
 45   Point in case. 'Shut up and go away' he says     paddytheplank    Tue Jun 26, 2007 14:47 
 46   Paddy     Chicherin    Tue Jun 26, 2007 15:05 
 47   paddythepllank     davekey    Tue Jun 26, 2007 15:10 
 48   very relevant     paddytheplank    Tue Jun 26, 2007 15:13 
 49   Paddy /davekey     Chicherin    Tue Jun 26, 2007 15:18 
 50   To Chicherin     davekey    Tue Jun 26, 2007 15:30 
 51   davekey     Chicherin    Tue Jun 26, 2007 15:41 
 52   To Chicherin     davekey    Tue Jun 26, 2007 15:58 
 53   Statement     Chicherin    Tue Jun 26, 2007 16:08 
 54   Sorry, have to reply     davekey    Tue Jun 26, 2007 16:36 
 55   davekey     Chicherin    Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:09 
 56   Temporary reprieve for Iranian child offender     Chicherin    Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:20 
 57   Good New For Sina     Chicherin    Wed Jul 25, 2007 16:21 


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