“Iran is one of the few countries that sentences children to death” and executes more minors than any other, the IHR said, according to its data, at least 68 minors have been executed since 2010.
A 17-year-old teenager, who had been sentenced to death for murder in Iran, has been executed by hanging, two non-governmental human rights organizations said on Saturday.
Hamidreza Azari was hanged on Friday in the prison of Sabzevar, a city in Khorasan i Razavi province (northeast), said the NGOs Hengaw and Iran Human Rights (IHR), both of which are based in Norway.
Iran International TV, which broadcasts content in Persian, confirmed his execution. The teenager was 16 at the time of the crime last May, when he allegedly killed a man during a fight, and 17 the day before yesterday when he was killed, Hengaw and IHR said, citing documents consulted.
His execution therefore constitutes a new violation by Iran of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, which explicitly defines any person under the age of 18 as a child, the non-governmental organizations pointed out.
“Iran is one of the few countries that sentences children to death” and executes more minors than any other, the IHR said, according to its data, at least 68 minors have been executed since 2010.
In Iran “you have to be 18 to get a driver’s license, but you only need to be 15 to be hanged,” IHR director Mahmoud-Amiri Moghaddam pointedly pointed out via X (the former Twitter).
On Thursday, authorities in the Islamic Republic proceeded to execute a young man, the eighth person to be hanged for a case linked to the protest movement sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsha Amini in September 2022. The young woman had been arrested some 24 hours earlier from the morality police, who charged her for allegedly violating the strict dress code imposed on women.
Non-governmental organizations complain that the Iranian authorities have carried out an unprecedented series of executions in recent times in order to intimidate the population and thereby suppress the protest movement. According to the IHR, at least 684 people were executed in Iran this year, mostly people who were sentenced to death for murder, drug trafficking or drug use.
Source :Skai
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