URGENT: THE MINOR OFFENDER BEHNOOD SHOJAEE IS ACHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED ON THE CHRISTMAS EVE
23 Dec 08
Iran Human Rights, December 22: The juvenile offender, Behnood Shojaee is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday December 24, wrote his lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei in an e-mail to Iran Human Rights.
Behnood Shojaee is convicted of murdering another boy at the age of 17. He was sentenced to death by a court in Tehran and his execution has been halted several times, mainly due to the attention his case got internationally and among human rights defenders in Iran.
Iran has ratified UN’s convention for children’s rights, which bans death penalty for the offences committed under 18 years of age.
However, so far in 2008 at least 7 minor offenders have been executed in Iran.
More than 150 minor offenders are on the death row in the Iranian prisons today.
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