NCRI – The death sentence of a 21-year-old man by the name of Mohammad Reza Hadadi has been endorsed by mullahs’ Supreme Court and referred to the justice department in Shiraz to be carried out. He was only 15 at the time of the alleged crime and has been in Adel Abad prison of Shiraz since 2003.
Two months earlier, the regime also hanged another 21-year-old, Behnoud Shojaee, who was 17 at the time of the alleged crime.
In the meantime, a number other youths including Bahman Salimian in Esfahan, Abbas Hosseini in Mashhad, Rahim Ahmadi and Mohammad Jahedi in Shiraz are also facing death.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all human rights organizations, especially the organizations defending the rights of children to condemn barbaric death sentences on under aged youths. It also calls for urgent measures to stop death sentences to be carried out on the youths, particularly on Mohammad Reza Hadad. The Iranian Resistance reiterates that continuing with the failed policy of appeasement towards the criminal regime would result in nothing but growing bloodshed and murder in Iran.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 30, 2009
