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Iran: Call to Stop Execution of a Juvenile

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The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations, especially the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights and Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, to take urgent and effective action to stop the execution of a juvenile.

Hamid Ahmadi, currently in prison, is set to be executed for a crime he allegedly carried out at the age of 17.

After enduring 9 years behind bars, Ahmadi was transferred to solitary confinement of Lakan Prison in Rasht, northern Iran, in preparation for his execution. Reports indicate he is scheduled to be executed on Saturday, February 4. Authorities had placed this young man under extreme torture and threats to obtain a coerced confession.

“As of March 2016, at least 160 juvenile offenders were reportedly on death row,” according to a report issued by former U.N. secretary-general Ban Ki-moon. A large number of the 88 individuals executed in Iran in January were under the age of 18 when arrested. On January 29 alone four young men between the ages of 22 and 26 were executed in public in the cities of Mashhad and Bandar Abbas, northeast and southern Iran, respectively.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
February 3, 2017