Iran: deathsentences and prison

Human Rights Watch urged Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, the countries known to have executed a juvenile for a crime committed before age 18, since 2009, to end the deathsentence for juvenile offenders.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which all three of the countries are parties, prohibits capital punishment for individuals who were under 18 at the time of the crime.


Iran executed at least 1 juvenile in 2010 and 5 in 2009.
January 21st 2009: Molla Gol Hassan, 21 executed for a murder he committed when he was 17,,
May 1st 2009: Delara Darabi, 22,for a murder she alledgedly committed when she was 17.
May 20 2009: Ali Jafari for a crime, committed before he was 18,
October 12 2009: Behnoud Shojai, 21, hanged for a murder he committed in 2005, when he was 17,
December 17, 2009: Mosleh Zamani, 23, who was arrested in Kurdistan when he was 17,on charges of abducting and raping a woman several years older with whom he was allegedly having a relationship. When it appeared that the sex had in fact been consensual, the judge still insisted that Zamani be executed to "set an example" to other young Iranians.
July 10, 2010: Mohammad who secretly was hanged in Shiraz prison on charge of raping and murdering two young boys in 2007 when he was 17.
source: hrw.org



Gholam Hossein Esmali, the head of prisons in Iran says that there are no political prisoners in jail in Iran.
According to him only people are in prison as a result of threatening the national security and their numbers are very limited.
According to ISNA he said that the crimerate in Iran is very low and he added that the percentage of female prisoners is only 3.5%, while the rate for male prisoners has reached 96.5%. He says that the low percentage of female prisoners comes from Islamic precedent, they control the prison environment by using closed circuit cameras and are working hard to ensure that this type of control is extended to outside the prison as well.

Some links and more to read here.

Update: 615 names of prisoners.

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Never revealed details about Hengameh Shahidi´s case, beatings, torture, mock execution


Six political prisoners taken for interrogation in the middle of the night.
source:persian2english



The Kurdish activists Bakhtiar Memari and Harij Ebrahimi are still in the solitary confinement unit of the Sanandaj Intelligence Ministry.
They were arrested two months ago.
Their families have been under pressure by the security forces to refrain from contacting the media.
source:HRHI


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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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