Another 16 year old Iranian boy sentenced to death in Iran

September 16, 2007: An Iranian court sentenced two teenagers to death on the charges of rape and murder, the state-owned Iran daily reported. The court in Shiraz, 900 kilometers south of Tehran, sentenced Reza, 16, and Mohammed, 18, to death for raping and killing 9 year old Karim Tajik and 10 year old Mohammed Shiri in April, 2007.
The teenagers were also sentenced to three years in prison and 100 lashes.

According to the newspaper, the suspects confessed to raping the boys, tying them up and then tossing them into the river in Marvdasht town to drown them. There were two other suspects in the crime, one of whom was acquitted and the other sentenced to flogging. 

Source: http://www.nessunotocchicaino.it/nl.php?nid=9326784  

Considering that Reza is 16 years of age, this brings total recorded number of Iranian children facing execution to 80:

Girls (3):

Boys (77):

  • Abbass Hosseini, 17
  • Abdolkhaleq Rakhshani
  • Ahmad Jabari, 15
  • Ahmad Nourzahi, 12
  • Akoo Hosseini
  • Ali Alijan, 17
  • Ali Mahin Torabi, 16
  • Ali Norumohammadi, 16
  • Ali Shabehzadeh, 17
  • Alireza Movassili Roudi, 16
  • Amir Calehchaleh, 17
  • Asghar, 16
  • Behador Khaleqi, 16
  • Behnam Zare, 15
  • Beniamin Rasouli, 17
  • Farshad Sa’eedi, 17
  • Farzad, 15
  • Feyz Mohammad, 16
  • Feyzollah Soltani
  • Gholam Nabi Barahouti, 16
  • Habib Afsar, 15
  • Hamed, 15
  • Hamid, 17
  • Hamid Reza, 14
  • Hamzeh S., 17
  • Hani Momeni Yasaqi
  • Hasan Mozaffari
  • Hedayat Niroumand, 14 or 15
  • Hossein Gharabaghloo, 16
  • Hossein Haghi, 17
  • Hossein Toranj, 17
  • Iman, 17
  • Khodamorad Shahemzadeh, 17
  • Mahmoud, 17
  • Masoud, 17
  • Mehdi, 16
  • Mehyar Haghgoo, 17
  • Mehyar Anvari, 17
  • Milad Bakhtiari, 16
  • Mohammad Ahmadi 16
  • Mohammad Jahedi
  • Mohammad Jamali Paghale, 15
  • Mohammad Latif, 14
  • Mohammad Mavari, 16
  • Mohammad Pezhman
  • Mohammad Reza Turk
  • Morteza Feizi, 16
  • Mosleh Zamani 17
  • Mostafa, 16
  • Mostafa Sa’idi
  • Nabavat Baba’I, 17
  • Na’im Kolb’ali, 15
  • Naser Qasemi, 15
  • Ne’mat, 15
  • Nosrat, 15
  • Omarraddin Alkuzehi, 17
  • Omid Sarani, 17
  • Rahman Shahidi
  • Rasoul Eyvatvandi, 17
  • Rasoul Mohammadi, 17
  • Rasoul Nouriyani
  • Rasoul Safari, 17
  • Reza Alinejad, 17
  • Reza Padashi, 16
  • Reza, 16
  • Saber
  • Sadegh Ahmadpour, 17
  • Sa’eed Jazee, 17
  • Safar Angooti, 17
  • Sa’id Arab
  • Sajjad, 17
  • Salman Akbari, 17
  • Shahram Pourmansouri, 17
  • Sina Paymard, 16
  • Siyavash Shirnejad
  • Vahid, 16
  • Zolf’ali Hamzeh,