NCRI – Norwegian Foreign Ministry summoned the Iranian regime’s ambassador to Oslo to protest against a decision to execute a woman for a crime she was alleged to have committed when she was only 12.
Soghra Najafpour, 31, was jailed 18 years ago for alleged murder of an eight-year-old boy. At the time she was working as a child servant for the boy’s family. She says that the father of the family killed his son accidentally.
Elisabeth Walaas, deputy Foreign Minister, in a statement said that the execution of individuals who were under 18 at the time of committing a crime is in breach of international conventions in which the regime is a party.
Walaas reiterated that Norway and other countries had protested against execution of children in Iran over the recent years and underlined the importance of international pressures to stop these executions.
