The list of known names of the Iranian Children facing execution now reached 73. The alarming rise in numbers is partially due to the increased attention to this issue within Iran after the formations of The Stop Child Executions Campaigns by SCE , Amnesty International and other human rights organizations and activists.

When the Stop Child Executions Campaign was initially formed, only four months ago, there were only 21 known cases and to date we have located 52 more children facing executions in Iran, 3 in Saudi Arabia and 2 in Sudan.

IRAN (73)

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 Girls (3):

1. Delara Darabi, 17
2. Nazbibi Ateshbejan, 16
3. Soghra Najafpour, 13

1. Abbass Hosseini, 17    
2. Abdolkhaleq Rakhshani       
3. Ahmad Jabari, 15       
4. Ahmad Nourzahi, 12   
5. Akoo Hosseini          
6. Ali Alijan, 17       
7. Ali Mahin Torabi, 16       
8. Ali Norumohammadi, 16 
9. Alireza Movassili Roudi, 16       
10. Amir Calehchaleh, 17       
11. Asghar, 16       
12. Behador Khaleqi, 16     
13. Beniamin Rasouli, 17     
14. Farshad Sa’eedi, 17       
15. Farzad, 15       
16. Feyz Mohammad, 16       
17. Feyzollah Soltani
18. Gholam Nabi Barahouti, 16
19. Habib Afsar, 15
20. Hamed, 15
21. Hamid, 17
22. Hamid Reza, 14
23. Hamzeh S., 17
24. Hani Momeni Yasaqi
25. Hasan Mozaffari
26. Hedayat Niroumand, 14 or 15
27. Hossein Gharabaghloo, 16
28. Hossein Haghi, 17
29. Hossein Toranj, 17
30. Iman, 17
31. Khodamorad Shahemzadeh, 17
32. Mahmoud, 17
33. Masoud, 17
34. Mehdi, 16
35. Mehyar Haghgoo, 17
36. Mehyar Anvari, 17
37. Milad Bakhtiari, 16
38. Mohammad Ahmadi 16
39. Mohammad Jahedi
40. Mohammad Jamali Paghale, 15
41. Mohammad Mavari, 16
42. Mohammad Pezhman
43. Mohammad Reza Turk
44. Morteza Feizi, 16
45. Mosleh Zamani 17
46. Mostafa, 16
47. Mostafa Sa’idi
48. Nabavat Baba’I, 17
49. Na’im Kolb’ali, 15
50. Naser Qasemi, 15
51. Ne’mat, 15
52. Omarraddin Alkuzehi, 17
53. Omid Sarani, 17
54. Rahman Shahidi
55. Rasoul Eyvatvandi, 17
56. Rasoul Mohammadi, 17
57. Rasoul Nouriyani
58. Rasoul Safari, 17
59. Reza Alinejad, 17
60. Saber
61. Sadegh Ahmadpour, 17
62. Sa’eed Jazee, 17
63. Sa’id Arab
64. Sajjad, 17
65. Salman Akbari, 17
66. Shahram Pourmansouri, 17
67. Sina Paymard, 16
68. Siyavash Shirnejad
69. Vahid, 16
70. Zolf’ali Hamzeh,

SAUDI ARABIA (3)

SUDAN (2)

Africa

Legal system: Islamic Sharia

Signatory to ICCPR and CRC

1. Abdelrhman Zakaria Mohamed (male – 16)
2. Ahmed Abdullah Suleiman (male – 16)

Domestic worker Rizana Nafeek was sentenced to death on 16 June for a murder committed while she was 17 years old.

She was arrested in May 2005 in Jeddah on charges of murdering an infant in her care. She had no access to lawyers either during interrogation or at her trial and was believed to have confessed to the murder during police questioning. She has since retracted her confession.

She apparently told the authorities that she was born in February 1988, but they seem to have ignored this on the basis that her passport indicated that she was born in February 1982. According to information available to Amnesty International no medical examination is believed to have been carried out to< ascertain her age, nor was she given the opportunity to present her birth certificate, which reportedly shows that she was born in 1988.

Rizana Nafeek is believed to have appealed against her sentence, but if her appeal is unsuccessful she could be executed within days. 

Saudi Arabia is a state party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which expressly prohibits the execution of offenders for crimes committed when they were under 18 years old.

Source:
Amnesty International