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Child Executions still a problem
Human Rights Lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei told SCE President that the new law isn’t as sound as it seems. Here are exerpts from The Guardian newspaperSource http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/13/iran-misleading-death-penalty-claims?newsfeed=true Iran ‘misleading international community’ with death penalty claims Experts question claims that a new Iranian penal code bans the death penalty for juveniles and stoning for adulterers Iran has been accused of misleading…
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An End to Child Executions in Iran?
Stop Child Executions organization just received news that executions of minors in Iran may be a thing of the past.The Council of Guardians have approved changing Iran’s penal code whereby juvenile offenders who have committed an offence before the age of 18 will not face the death penalty. SCE is also happy to hear that death…
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Wedding Donations
Many people have written to SCE congratulating the president and co founder Nazanin Afshin-Jam on her recent nuptials with Peter Mackay. They had asked their family and friends not to provide gifts but rather to donate to their favorite charity. Many decided to contribute to Stop Child Executions. Based on your generous donations this month,…
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President of SCE supports World Day Against Execution in Paris
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European Union condemns Iran for child executions
COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNIONLuxembourg, 10 October 2011 15307/11 PRESSE 356 EU reinforces restrictive measures due to serious human rights violations in Iran The Foreign Affairs Council today expressed its profound concern at the deteriorating human rights situation in Iran. It thus reinforced the EU’s restrictive measures against persons responsible for serious human rights violations…
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UN Experts condemn child executions
HR/11/202 22 September 2011IRAN: UNITED NATIONS EXPERTS CONDEMN PUBLIC EXECUTION OF JUVENILE AND REITERATE CALL FOR IMMEDIATE HALT ON DEATH PENALTYFour United Nations Experts* condemned the public execution by hanging of 17-year-old Alireza Molla Soltani, which was carried out yesterday, and the ongoing practice by the Iranian authorities of executing people charged with drug-related offences.“We…
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Alireza Molla-Soltani hanged in public
Stop Child Executions is sad to report the execution of juvenile Alireza Molla-Soltani today September 21st 2011. He was publicly hanged in Golshahr, Karaj.More details below:Source: http://radiozamaneh.com/english/content/murder-convict-hanged-public-iran and http://www.payvand.com/news/11/sep/1211.html Pictures provided by: MEHR news agency
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Urgent!! Juvenile to be executed tomorrow!
Stop Child Executions organization asks you to urgently contact your local member of parliament, media and write a one-liner message to the head of Judiciary in Iran to halt the execution of juvenile Alireza Molla-Soltani. Write to Sadeq Larijani at: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir and copy the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir You could be the one to make the difference! 20 September…
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URGENT: Juvenile to be executed tomorrow!
Stop Child Executions organization asks you to urgently contact your local member of parliament, media and write a one-liner message to the head of Judiciary in Iran to halt the execution of this juvenile Alireza Molla-Soltani. Write to Sadeq Larijani at: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir and copy the President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir You could be the one to make the difference! 20 September…
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Possibly two juveniles executed in Iran yesterday
According to Iran Human Rights 22 prisoners were hanged yesterday and among them possibly two minors.Source: http://iranhr.net/spip.php?article2268 Iran Human Rights, September 19: According to the Iranian government daily “Iran”, 22 prisoners were hanged in the prisons of Evin (Tehran) and Rajaei Shahr (Karaj, west of Tehran) yesterday morning. According to official Iranian sources at least…
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Taliban hang 8 year old boy
Source: Channel 6 Newshttp://channel6newsonline.com/2011/07/taliban-hang-8-year-old-boy-in-southern-afghanistan/ KABUL (BNO NEWS) — Suspected members of the Taliban on Friday hung the 8-year-old son of a local police commander in southern Afghanistan after ordering his father to surrender, according to a news report on Saturday. The Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) news agency reported that the young boy was kidnapped by militants…
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Juvenile executed in Iran
IRAN: 17 EXECUTED AMONG THEM ONE MINOR May 13, 2011: 17 people, among them one minor, have been hanged recently in Iran. On May 10, authorities have hanged five convicted drug-traffickers in the country’s northwest area. The hanging was carried out immediately after the convicts were awarded death sentence by a court in Orumieh,…
