Javad Shojaei was executed in a prison yard in the central city of Isfahan, Iran. He was sentenced to death by hanging for an alleged murder committed in the year 2000 when he was 16 years old. The execution was approved by the Iranian Supreme Court.
Iranian Kurd Makwan Moloudzadeh was sentenced to death for raping three teenage boys when he was 13 years old. He was hanged at December 5, 2007 in the morning at a prison in Kermanshah province in western Iran. Makwan was executed despite his alleged rape victims withdrawing their accusations and a judicial review and stay of execution being ordered into the sentence.
Mohammadreza Tork (18) was hanged November 15, 2007 in a prison in the city of Hamedan. He was together with two other men convicted of a murder in a village near Malayer November 2005. At that time Mohammadreza was 16 years and 4 months old (born in June 1989), and he was 18 years and 4 months when he was executed. The two others, who are believed to be in Mohammadreza’s family, were hanged right after. They are identified as Manuchehr Tork (30) and Safarali Waramzyaar (31).
Two Afghani boys (m)
Hossein Gharabaghloo (m)
Hossein Gharabaghloo was 16 when he reportedly stabbed his friend Mahmoud to death during
a fight on 1 December 2004 in Robat-e Karim, near Tehran. He was arrested and taken to the
Tehran Centre of Correction and Rehabilitation. He escaped before his trial, which was due to
begin on 19 April 2005. He was then recaptured, and on 1 November 2006 he was tried by
Branch 71 of Tehran General Court, which sentenced him to qesas.
The death sentence was
confirmed by Branch 31 of the Supreme Court on 13 December 2006.
Hossein was executed at the Evin prison in Tehran October 17, 2007.
Babak Rahimi was executed at the Evin prison in Tehran October 17, 2007. He was convicted of a murder in January 2002, when he was 17 years old.
Saeed Kamberzai (m)
Saeed Kamberzai was executed on May 28, 2007, and was 17 years old at the time of the execution. Saeed,
together with six other men, confessed on Iranian television of being involved in a number of crimes which allegedly
took place in the Sistan-Baluchistan province, including attacks and carjackings. According to Amnesty International,
there are uncomfirmed reports that these men were tortured into giving these confessions.
Information provided to Amnesty International suggested that Saeed and the other men could have
been arrested because of family ties with those suspected of having been involved in blowing up a bus carrying
security officials from the Revolutionary Guard on 14 February 2007, in which at least 14 people were killed.
Mohammad Mousavi was executed on April 22, 2007 in the city of Shiraz. He was prisoner #13 on the
Stop Child Executions petition. Mohammad was
19 years old and was sentenced to death for a murder allegedly committed when he was 16.
Mohammad was initially assigned a court appointed attorney but after saving some money, his mother
contacted Nasrin Sotoudeh who is an Iranian attorney specialized in juvenile cases. Mrs. Sotoudeh represents other minors
facing execution in Iran. Sina Paymard is one
of them.
Soon after Mohammad Mousavi's mother hired her own attorney, she was contacted by Mr. Marvi, an official
of Iran's judiciary in the central city of Shiraz where they reside. Mr. Marvi told Ms. Mousavi not to publicize her
son's execution verdict and to fire her new attorney and in return he promised that Mohammad would not be executed because
he was only 16 at the time of the alleged crime. Relying on the Iranian official's promise, the desperate mother told the
new attorney not to proceed with defending her son. She also avoided talking to media or human right advocates about her
son's situation.
On April 22, 2007 she was contacted by the Iranian authorities, But what she heard was not the promised
news of commuting of her son's death penalty. Instead she was told:
"Your son was executed this morning, please make necessary arrangements to collect his body".
Atefeh
Rajabi Salaaleh (f)
Atefeh
Rajabi Salaaleh was a sixteen year-old Iranian girl who was executed in
Iran after being sentenced to death by an Iranian judge, Haji
Rezaii, for allegedly having committed "acts incompatible
with chastity" (having sexual intercourse with an older man),
and for removing her hijab while arguing with her judge in court.
Atefeh reportedly had no access to legal counsel during the trial
and was allegedly not believed to be mentally competent. Her death
sentence was upheld by a Supreme Court of conservative mullahs.
Haji Rezaii, the religious judge, was reportedly so incensed with
Atefeh’s "sharp tongue" during the trial that he traveled
to Tehran to convince the mullahs of the Supreme Court to uphold
the death sentence. She was publicly hanged in Neka, Iran, in
August 2004, by the judge himself. Her body was left hanging for
some time so people could see what happened to teenagers who committed
acts incompatible with chastity. Amnesty International, as well
as human rights organizations from the international community
at large, declared the execution to be a crime against humanity
and against children of the world.
Atefeh's body was allegedly removed from
the grave soon after the burial by unknown perpetrators.
Majid Segound was executed on 13 May 2006, along
with Masoud Naghi Biranvand in Khorramabad, the capital of Lorestan
province. Majid Segound was 17 years old at the time of his execution.
Amnesty International reports the age of the second boy , Masoud
at 20 , however Human Rights watch and Us state department report
him as 17 years old. According to reports, they were sentenced
to death for the rape and murder of a 12-year-old boy, and were
tried in an extraordinary session.
16 year old Mona were together with 9 other
Bahai women executed in June 1983. The primary charge against
her was teaching Bahá’í children’s classes. Because her youth
and conspicuous innocence became a symbol of the group in prison,
she was lashed on the soles of her feet with a cable and forced
to walk on bleeding feet. On the day of the execution she asked
to be the last in line to be executed so she could pray for the
others. All she had to do to avoid execution was to denounce her
faith but she refused, and instead when it was her turn, she kissed
the rope and put it around her own neck.
This music video was made for her by the Canadian musician
Doug Cameron.
Ali Sarafpour Rajabi: On 13 July 2005, Ali Safarpour
Rajabi, aged 20, was hanged for killing Hamid Enshadi, a police
officer in Poldokhtar. Amnesty International recorded his death
sentence as having been passed in February 2002, when he was 17
years old, and believes his crime may have been committed when
he was only 16 years old.
Mahmoud Asgari (m) and Ayaz Marhoni(m)
Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni were Iranian
teenagers from the province of Khuzestan who were hanged in Edalat
(Justice) Square in Mashad northeast Iran, on July 19, 2005.
Prior to their execution, the two were also
given 228 lashes each for drinking, disturbing the peace and theft.
The case attracted the attention of the international
media on two grounds: firstly, due to the belief that the boys
had been executed for engaging in consensual homosexual sex, while
the Iranian judiciary assert it was for the rape of a 13-year
old boy and secondly, due to the belief that they were below 18
years old at the time of the offence, and one of them is believed
to have been a minor when he was executed.
Journalist Afdhere Jama interviewed numerous
sources from Mashhad who maintain that Mahmoud Asgari, Ayaz Marhoni,
and five other friends were originally accused of committing consensual
homosexual acts on each other (Lavaat). One of the accusers is
believed to be an older half-brother of Ayaz Marhoni.
The seven boys were taken into police custody,
and then examined by a doctor for signs of rectal scarring. Asgari,
Marhoni, and a 13-year-old friend tested positive, while the other
boys did not. As punishment, Asgari, Marhoni, and the 13-year-old
received lashes administered by law enforcement officers.
The father of the 13-year-old boy is said to
be a senior Revolutionary Guards officer. Mashhad sources interviewed
by Jama insist that the father’s position, one which deals largely
with suppressing internal dissent, and defending the regime, grants
him a very high social and political status. Sources believe this
is why the typically unyielding Iranian government had so freely
changed the 13-year-old’s account from consensual homosexual sex
to rape. It also explains why Marhoni and Asgari, both minors,
had received such harsh punishments
Executed on January 19, 2005 for a crime he
allegedly committed when he was 17 years old
Unnamed(m)
A 17 year old man among four men executed on
August 23, 2005 in Bandar Abbas. They were convicted of kidnapping,
rape, and theft.
Ali
Safapour Rajabi(m)
Ali was hanged for killing a police officer
in Poldokhtar. He had been sentenced to death in February 2002
when he was 17 years old for a crime committed when he may have
been only 16 years old.
Farshin
Faighi(m)
Farshin was hanged in prison in the city of
Bandar Abbas in 2005 at the age of 21. He was convicted of five murders,
reportedly carried out between the ages of 14 and 16.
Unnamed(m)
Convicted of rape and publicly hanged on September
22, 2005 in the southern province of Fars at the age of 22. He
had reportedly been sentenced to death in 2000, suggesting that
he was under the age of 18 when the crime was committed.
Rostam
Tajok(m)
On December 10, 2005, Rostam Tajik was publicly
executed in a park in the city of Esfahan, central Iran. He had
reportedly been sentenced to qisas (retribution specified by the
victim's family) by the General Court of Esfahan for a murder
committed in May 2001 when he was 16 years old.
Dina Parnabi (f)
Dina Parnabi was an Iranian high school student, accused of smuggling forbidden literature and
criticising the regime in her talks with her classmates. She was hanged on the 10th of July 1984 in a Teheran prison.
The hanging was done in private and after the execution was over, her body was stripped, washed and delivered
for dissection at medical school. In Iran, female bodies delivered for medical studies often show the rope or
cable burns around their necks, indicating that they were all executed by hanging.
Note: Death sentences are required to be upheld by
the Supreme Court before executions can take place. Very few details
of death sentences imposed within Iran are available, but here are some
examples of cases which have come to the attention of Stop Child Executions
Campaign.
Recorded executions of child
offenders in Iran since 1990: case details Source:Amnesty
International:
Name
Age
Date of Execution
Kazem Shirafkan
Three young males
Ebrahim Qorbanzadeh
Jasem Abrahimi
Mehrdad Yousefi
Mohammad Zadeh
Salman
Atefeh Rajabi
Iman Farokhi
Ali Safarpour Rajabi
Mahmoud A.
A. M.
Farshid Farighi
Name unknown
Name unknown
Rostam Tajik
Majid Segound
Sattar
Morteza M
Naser Batmani
Mohammad Mousavi
Saeed Kamberzai
Hossein Gharabaghloo
Babak Rahimi
Two Afghani boys
Mohammadreza Tork
Makwan Moloudzadeh
Javad Shojaei
17 at time of execution
One aged 16, two aged
17 at time of execution
17 at time of execution
17 at time of execution
16 at time of offence
17 at time of offence
17 at time of offence
16 at time of execution
17 at time of execution
16 or 17 at time of the offence
15 or 16 at time of the offence
16 or 17 at time of the offence
14 to 16 at time of the offences
17 at time of execution
under 18 at time of the offence
16 at time of the offence
17 at time of execution
17 at time of execution
16 at time of offence
under 18 at time of the offence
16 at time of offence
17 at time of execution
16 at time of offence
17 at time of offence
Under 18 at time of offence
16 at time of offence
13 at time of offence
16 at time of offence
1990
29 September 1992
24 October 1999
14 January 2000
29 May 2001
25 January 2004
12 May 2004
15 August 2004
19 January 2005
13 July 2005
19 July 2005
19 July 2005
1 August 2005
23 August 2005
12 September 2005
10 December 2005
13 May 2006
September 2006
7 November 2006
December 2006
22 April 2007
28 May 2007
17 October 2007
17 October 2007
2007
15 November 2007
5 December 2007
February 2008
