Not a week after the appalling hanging of Delara Darabi (22) last Friday, two minor offenders, aged 18 and 19 (16 and 17 when convicted) are to be executed by hanging in Tehran tomorrow, according to Iran Human Rights in Norway:
According to Mohammad Mostafaei, lawyer of several Iranian minors on the death row, the two minors scheduled to be executed on Wednesday are Amir Khaleghi and Safar Angooti.
Amir Khaleghi (18) is convicted of an alleged murder when he was 16 years old. According to his lawyer, Amir was heavily drunk (from the alcohol he bought from a drug store) when he got involved in a street fight which led to a stabbing injury in the chest of another boy identified as Ali Malekpour (who later died).
Amir was scheduled to be executed on February 22, but it was postponed after orders from the Iranian judiciary.
The other minor offender scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, Safar Angooti (19), is convicted of a murder when he was 17 years old.
Here’s the thing, though: The United Nation’s convention of children’s rights, also signed by Iran, explicitly bans death penalty for offences committed under the age of 18, as was the case with Delara Darabi (although she pledged her innocence to the very end), too, convicted at the age of 17.
The young Iranian woman Delara Darabi (22), executed on Friday 1 May (myspace.com/helpdelara).
While Iran’s judiciary system prepares tomorrow’s two hangings, protesters around the world show their contempt for the country’s practices. Amnesty International Norway, for one, plans several rallies during Wednesday 6 May, among them, outside Iran’s Oslo embassy.
Read also:
- Iran: 150 juveniles to be executed – Insignificances
- Two more juveniles to be executed on Wednesday – Iranian.com
- Life Without Parole for Juveniles? – Blogger News Network
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Top photo: Iranian mass-execution (source/photograph’s origin undisclosed).