URGENT: The minor offender Rahim Ahmadi is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday Fenruary 18

Iran Human Rights, February 16: The minor offender Rahim Ahmadi is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday February 18. wrote his lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei in a letter to Iran Human Rights. The letter is also published on Mr. Mostafaei’s blog.

Rahim Ahmadi is convicted of a murder he allegedly committed when he was 15 years old. According to his lawyer Rahim had acted in self defence.

Rahim’s execution is scheduled to take place at Adelabad prison of Shiraz.

The minor offender Behnam Zare was also executed in Shiraz in August 2008, convicted of a murder at the age of 15.