NCRI – Just one week after the heinous hanging of 21-year-old Behnoud Shojaee, the clerical regime in Iran has ordered the hanging of three other minors. Behnoud Shojai was barely 17 when he committed his alleged crime.
All three men sentenced to death were also under 18 when they committed their alleged crimes. They were identified as Safar Angouti, Mohammadreza Haddadi, and Amir Amrollahi.
Safar Angouti, 20, has been imprisoned for the past three years and is scheduled to be hanged on October 21, 2009. Mohammadreza Haddadi, 15 at the time of committing the alleged crime, has spent the last 7 years at Adelabad prison in the city of Shiraz, and Amir Amrollahi, who at 16 was involved in an unfortunate scuffle with another teenager in Shiraz resulting in death, has been in prison for the past four years.
In addition to the above three, four others, Bahman Salimian in Isfahan, Abbas Hosseini in Mashhad, and Rahim Ahmadi and Mohammad Jahedi in Shiraz, are among 140 minors in Iran currently facing death.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international authorities and human rights organizations, particularly those advocating children’s rights, to condemn these brutal sentences and adopt immediate measures to stop their implementation. The Iranian Resistance also emphasizes that the defeated policy of appeasement vis-à-vis criminal ruling regime would result in nothing but a further escalation in murders and bloodshed in Iran by the mullahs.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
October 19, 2009
