NCRI – A 20-year-old man is scheduled for hanging on Thursday morning by the mullahs' judiciary in the southern city of Shiraz. He was 15 at the time of the alleged crime.
The man named Mohammad Reza Hadadi has been on death row since last year. However his attorney maintains that he is innocent.
Also on September 30, another minor named Rahim Ahmadi, had his death sentence upheld by the mullahs' judiciary chief, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.
Ali Mahin Torabi, a minor who was 16 at the time of the alleged crime, is facing the gallows soon according to his attorney Mohammad Mostafaii.
Last month, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) expressed grave concern over the violation of human rights in Iran. U.N. Human Rights official, Rupert Colville, told reporters "On the 27th of July, for example, 29 executions are reported to have taken place. A month later, on the 28th of August, another five people, including a woman, were reported to have been executed. In all, more than 220 people, including six juvenile offenders, are believed to have been executed this year in Iran already.
"Iran's legal obligation not to impose the death penalty for juveniles was assumed voluntarily when it ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, both of which prohibit the death penalty for crimes committed by people below the age of 18,'' Coleville added.
International outrage over the wave of executions heightened in late August when the regime executed two teenagers, Reza Hejazi and Behnam Zare, for crimes they allegedly committed when they were under 18. On September 10, the state-run daily Etemaad reported that the mullahs’ Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence for a 17-year-old boy named Hossein for a crime he allegedly committed when 14. According to rights groups, 140 minors are awaiting the death penalty in Iran.
