Iran: youth

In Zahedan, Sistan-e-Baluchestan province are Friday two men hanged to death. They were convicted for drug smuggling.
Two days before a 17-year-old boy was hanged to death accused of being a militant with the Sunni separatist group Jondalla.






Amnesty International calls for Urgent Action for Reza Alinejad, 21-year-old who is at risk of imminent execution(PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 13/029/2007 ,12 March 2007).
In December 2002 at the age of 17, Reza Alinejad got in a fight with two men and stabbed one in selfdefence.
Although the other man and a witness confirmed that Reza Alinejad acted in selfdefence, the court sentenced him to death in october 2003.
This verdict was rejected by the Supreme Court in December 2004 and this court sent the case back to another lower court for investigation.
In June 2005 this court sentenced him to death again concluding that Reza Alinejad could
have fled the scene.
On 9 May 2006, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence.
Reza Alinejad has been detained in Adelabad prison in Shiraz since his arrest.


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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