NCRI – The mullahs’ regime hanged a young man identified as Javad Shojaii accused of a crime committed when he was 16, the state-run daily Etemad reported on Tuesday.
The inhuman mullahs’ regime has sentenced nine teenagers to death in the notorious Gohardasht prison some 40 km west of Tehran and five others in the Dastgerd prison in the central city of Isfahan. All were under 18 at the time of the alleged crime. The teenagers are Massoud Kafishir, Saiid Jazi, Hossein Toranj, Mehdi Azimi, Hamed Pour Heydari, Mostafa Naqdi, Benjamin Rasouli, Behrooz Shojaii, Morteza Feizi, Ahamd Mortazavain, Reza Hajazi, Iman Hashemi, Reza Bikasan, and Hamid Bikasan. The first six are still under 18.
There are at least 75 juveniles on death row in Iran, according to international human rights organizations.
Separately, Behnam Zarei and Mohammadreza Hadadi are on death row in Adelabad prison in the southern city of Shiraz.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the international community to end its silence over the medieval punishments and growing number of executions in Iran especially those of the juveniles. It also calls for an end to barbaric and systematic violations of human rights by the ruling religious fascism in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 27, 2008
