URGENT: The minor offender Mohammadreza Haddadi is scheduled to be executed on October 9. in southern Iran
Iran Human Rights, October 5: The minor offender Mohammad Reza Haddadi is scheduled to be hanged on October 9, according to his lawyerMohammad Mostafaei.
Mohammad Reza Haddadi is convicted of a murder he has allegedly committed in 2003 when he was 15 years old.
According to his lawyer Mr. Mostafaei, Mohammad haddadi didn’t committ the murder, but he just took the responsibility and confessed to the murder due to poverty and low age. In february 2008, Mr. Mostafaei wrote a letter to Shahroudi (head of the Iranian judiciary) with the request of reconsidering the case.
However, the minor offender Mohammad reza Haddadi (20) is scheduled to be hanged on October 9. in Adelabad prison of Shiraz (Fars province, south of Iran).
The news of Mohammadreza Haddadi’s scheduled execution is also reported by the Iranian daily Kargozaaran.
Iran has ratified UN’s convention of child’s rights which bans death penalty to offences committed as a minor.
So far in 2008, six minor offenders have been executed in Iran. Iran is the country with highest number of minor executions. According to report by Human Rights Watch, Iranian authorities are responsible for 26 of the 32 minor executions worldwide since 2005.
More than 150 minors offenders are on the death row in Iran.
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