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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL URGENT ALERT : SAUDI ARABIA

http://news.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE230192007

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

URGENT ACTION

Saudi Arabia: Death Penalty/Fear of imminent execution

SAUDI ARABIA Dhahian Rakan al-Sibai’I (m), Saudi Arabian national Mohamed Kohail (m), aged 22, Canadian national
Sultan Kohail (m), aged 16, Canadian national The three named above, two of them child offenders, may all be at risk of imminent execution. Saudi Arabia is a state party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and has undertaken not to execute any offenders who were children when they committed the offence.

According to the newspaper Okaz, Saudi Arabian national Dhahian Rakan al-Sibai’ i was sentenced to death for a murder committed while he was still a child. He was held in a juvenile detention facility until he was 18 years old, when he was moved to al-Taif Prison. He has appealed to the family of the victim to pardon him: if this fails, he could be executed within days. All death sentences must be ratified by the Supreme Judicial Council, headed by the King,
before they can be carried out. However, under Qisas (retribution), which is a punishment under Shari’a law, relatives of the murder victim can pardon the offender without compensation, or they can demand diya (blood money) in
exchange for a pardon. When this happens, the death sentence is rescinded and the offender if often released.

Negotiation of a pardon in the western part of Saudi Arabia is often initiated or facilitated by the Pardon and Reconciliation Committee. The Committee is said to be mediating on behalf of Dhahian Rakan al-Sibai’i to secure a pardon and prevent his execution.

Canadian national Mohamed Kohail is also said to be facing execution for murdering a Syrian boy in January 2007. His 16-year-old brother Sultan Kohail is held with him in connection with the murder, but it is not clear whether he
too has been sentenced to death. Mohamed Kohail was reportedly beaten to force him to sign a confession.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Saudi Arabia applies the death penalty for a wide range of offences. Court proceedings fall far short of international standards for fair trial, and take place behind closed doors.

Defendants are rarely allowed formal representation by a lawyer, and in many cases are not informed of the progress of legal proceedings against them. They may be convicted solely on the basis of confessions obtained under duress,
torture or deception.

In January 2006 the Saudi Arabian authorities told the Committee on the Rights of the Child (which monitors states’ implementation of the CRC) that no one had been executed for offences committed when they were under 18 years of age since the CRC came into force in the country, in February 1996. The Committee urged the authorities to ensure that no child offenders were sentenced to death.

16 year old Canadian Child of Palestinian origin facing possible execution in Saudi Arabia

Video is at the end of the article

Two Canadian brothers held in Saudi Arabia in connection to a schoolyard brawl that left one youth dead fear they could be executed for a crime they say they didn’t commit, according to a newspaper report.

Mohamed Kohail, 22, and his 16-year-old brother Sultan — both of Palestinian origin — say they were coerced into confessing their guilt for the murder of a Syrian youth last January.

16 year old Sultan, who was attending a school popular among non-Saudi Arabs in Jeddah, had been threatened by a group of school peers after being accused of insulting a Syrian girl he knew from a Muslim school in Montreal, who, like the Kohail brothers, had subsequently returned to Saudi Arabia. . His brother Kohail and another friend came to the school to defend Sultan from the threats, which included that he was going to be kidnapped.

There are different versions as to what exactly happened next. According to one Arabic newspaper, Okaz, a brawl erupted between a group of Palestinians and Syrians. “As the physical attack intensified, one of the Palestinians grabbed a Syrian boy named Monther, punched him violently and hit his head against the school yard fence. Monther fell on the ground and died instantly,” said the newspaper.

In an interview with Canadian newspaper, The Globe and Mail, via a cellphone from inside a Saudi prison, Kohail said Saudi police forced him to confess to punching the Syrian boy. “I didn’t touch anyone. There were 13 people who were beating me up. … They used knives and sticks and bricks,” he told the newspaper. Kohail claims he suffered injuries to his shoulder, ribs and eyes, and broke his front teeth in the brawl. Kohail said police arrested him as he was being treated at hospital and transferred him to Salamah police station, where they beat him into a confession.

“There was a policeman who told me, you have to sign, because if you sign the papers, you will get out” of prison. Kohail said the policeman originally told him he risked little because the Syrian boy was still alive but after signing the confession, the man said the boy had died and that he was going to be charged with murder. “It’s going to be death for now. That is what the investigators asked from the court,” Kohail told The Globe.“I’m afraid of everything,….I really want to go back to Canada now. I like everything in Canada.”

His 16 year old brother Sultan, who reportedly suffered a broken leg while in Saudi custody, is currently being held in a youth detention centre. The boys’ father, Ali, told The Globe he is convinced that both his sons are “100 per cent” innocent. The family returned to Saudi Arabia when Kohail’s older sister became ill. As the Kohails are Palestinian, they never filed for Saudi citizenship even though all of the children were born there. In 2005, they were all granted Canadian citizenship.

The fate of two Canadian brothers imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, who could face beheading is sparking a vigorous debate in the Arab news media. The detention of Mohamed and Sultan was a leading story on the website of Al-Arabiya, a popular Dubai-based Arabic TV outlet, attracting more than 100 comments. While some praised Canada’s insistence on defending its citizens abroad, most backed the Saudi authorities and said that Canada should respect the Saudi justice system. “It’s the Saudis’ right to execute him,” one reader wrote in Arabic. “Too bad, Canada. Hard luck.” “They must be executed,” said another. Many of the comments were critical of Canadian diplomatic efforts to assure consular access, centering on the fact that Saudi Arabia is governed by Islamic laws, and that those laws should be applied regardless of citizenship. If the accused were Indian or Pakistani, one reader said, nobody would care. “Regardless of the killer’s citizenship … they deserve the death penalty and no mercy.” . Other readers praised Canada’s commitment to its citizens, particularly because the Kohails are of Palestinian origin.

The youths lived with their family on Montreal’s West Island between 2000 and 2006 and became citizens. Last year, the family returned to Jeddah and Sultan began attending Edugates International School, where the brawl erupted on Jan. 13. It resulted in the death of Munzer Haraki, a Syrian youth.

Thursday, The Globe and Mail obtained a copy of a cellphone video of the battle from a friend of the Kohail family. The video lasts just over one minute and shows the extent of the melee on a street outside the school, as a dozen youths trade punches and kicks, while younger pupils look on and a couple of teachers try in vain to break it up. Screaming and the sound of car horns from passing traffic can be heard in the background.

The grainy, jumpy video includes some images of serious fighting, including one of a young man kicking another squarely in the face. Contacted by cellphone at the Jeddah prison where he is being held, Mohamed Kohail said that he was the victim in that particular incident and that the boy in the black T-shirt delivering the kick was Munzer Haraki, the Syrian youth who later died. The Globe and Mail was unable to independently corroborate the identity of either the youth who delivered the kick or the youth who received the blow. Mohamed said he was initially attacked by Abdulrahman Haraki, Raneem’s brother, whom he then pinned to the ground. “I hugged him from the back and went with him to the floor,” he said.

It’s while Mohamed is on top of Abdulrahman that the youth in the black T-shirt delivers a kick to Mohamed’s face. Mohamed said the fight continued after the end of the video but he had no explanation for what caused Munzer’s death, insisting that he never raised his hand against the boy who died. “I don’t know who hit Munzer,” he said.

Mohamed said that he did not know Raneem himself and that Sultan had never insulted the girl, who was described as about 18. According to Mohamed, Raneem did not even accuse Sultan of insulting her directly. Rather, Raneem was told by another girl that Sultan had called her a “bitch,” sparking the dispute.

On Wednesday, Saudi Arabia beheaded two Ethiopians for murder and armed robbery, bringing the total number of executions so far this year to 76, more than double the number for all of 2006.

In prison, Mohamed said that despite his allegations of abuse on the part of the guards, his need for asthma medication and a fainting spell in the washroom several weeks ago, he still has not received any medical attention. “Here, if you die, they bring a doctor. But if you don’t die, they don’t bring a doctor.”

BACKGROUND INFORMATION:

Saudi Arabia is a state party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and has undertaken not to execute any offenders who were children when they committed the offence. Saudi Arabia applies the death penalty for a wide range of offences. Court proceedings fall far short of international standards for fair trial, and take place behind closed doors.

SCE Campaign call on Saudi Arabia to take the necessary steps to halt the imposition of death sentences against child offenders, as outlined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Saudi Arabia is a state party.

SCE Campaign also calls on Canadian Government to officially object to the Saudi Regime and United Nation against the execution of its child citizen.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Please send a letter aasking the Saudi leaders to exercise their powers to commute the death sentences of Sultan Kohail and other children on death row in Saudi Arabia:
King Abdullah Bin ‘Abdul ‘Aziz Al-Saud
The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques
Office of His Majesty The King
Royal Court
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Salutation: Your Majesty

His Royal Highness Prince Naif bin ‘Abdul ‘Aziz Al-Saud
Minister of the Interior
Ministry of the Interior
P.O. Box 2933
Airport Road
Riyadh 11134
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Fax: 011 966 1 403 1185
011 966 1 403 3614
Salutation: Your Royal Highness

His Royal Highness Prince Saud al-Faisal bin ‘Abdul ‘Aziz Al-Saud
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Nasseriya Street
Riyadh 11124
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Fax: 011 966 1 403 0645
Salutation: Your Royal Highness

COPY TO : EMBASSY OF SAUDI ARABIA IN YOUR COUNTRY

URGENT: Saudi Arabian Child facing imminent Execution by beheading in public

URGENT ACTION

According to the newspaper Okaz, Saudi Arabian national Dhahian Rakan al-Sibai’ i was sentenced to death for an alleged murder committed while he was still a child. He was held in a juvenile detention facility until he was 18 years old, when he was moved to al-Taif Prison. He has appealed to the family of the victim to pardon him: if this fails, he could be executed within days. All death sentences must be ratified by the Supreme Judicial Council, headed by the King, before they can be carried out. However, under Qisas (retribution), which is a punishment under Shari’a law, relatives of the murder victim can pardon the offender without compensation, or they can demand diya (blood money) in exchange for a pardon. When this happens, the death sentence is rescinded and the offender if often released.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Saudi Arabia applies the death penalty for a wide range of offences. Court proceedings fall far short of international standards for fair trial, and take place behind closed doors. Defendants are rarely allowed formal representation by a lawyer, and in many cases are not informed of the progress of legal proceedings against them. They may be convicted solely on the basis of confessions obtained under duress, torture or deception.

The number of executions of adults in Saudi Arabia in 2007 is already double the total executions in 2006. . (76 executions in 2007 so far). Saudi regime execution are performed by beheading in public using a sword.

SCE campaign condemns the imminent execution of Dhahian Rakan al-Sibai’I, who was a child at the time of the alleged offence. Stop Child Executions Campaign remind Saudi Arabian Regime of its assurances to the Committee on the Rights of the Child that no executions of child offenders have been carried out since the convention came into force in Saudi Arabia, pointing out that the execution of children is expressly prohibited by the CRC to which Saudi Arabia is a state party.

RECOMMENDED ACTION:

Please send appeals to:

King Abdullah Bin ‘Abdul ‘Aziz Al-Saud
The Custodian of the two Holy Mosques
Office of His Majesty The King
Royal Court
Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Salutation: Your Majesty

COPY TO : EMBASSY OF SAUDI ARABIA IN YOUR COUNTRY

IN USA:
Ambassador Adel A. Al-Jubeir
Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia
601 New Hampshire Ave. NW
Washington DC 20037
Fax: 1 202 944 3113
Email: info@saudiembassy.net

Girl sentenced to death since 13 , anticipated to be freed at age 29

Stop Child Executions Campaign was informed of yet another Iranian female who is sentenced to death for alleged murder of a 9 year old boy. Soghra was 13 years old at the time and has always denied the charges. She has spent all of her adult life , 17 years, in prison and is now 29 years old.

If not female, at the age of 13, Soghra would not have been sentenced to death, because according to Iran’s Islamic Sharia law a girl at 9 and a boy at 13 is considered an adult.

Soghra’s family live in a small village in Northern Iran near Caspian Sea. She is being presented by Nasrin Sotoudeh who is also the attorney for Sina Paymard, another boy who is facing imminent execution. According to Ms. Sotoudeh, there are “many more” children facing executions in smaller towns. “These have not been reported in the press nor do they appear in officials records” she said.

Soghra is imprisoned in the same prison as Delara Darabi and Delara has been helping Soghra with some of her legal representation within prison which eventually resulted in posting a guarantee for her freedom. Soghra’s father has been able to secure the deed of a house as guarantee and therefore Soghra is expected to be freed after 17 years. Delara has been very happy that Soghra will be freed soon.

Iran executes another child

Stop Child Executions Campaign regret to inform that yesterday Iran executed another child Sa’id Qanbar Zahi aka Saeed Kamberzai. Saeed was accused of affiliation with a Baluch political group. According to the Baluchistan’s People Party report, Saeed was also severely tortured.

17 years old Saeed was from the Southern province of Baluchestan, Iran. Saeed is the second minor executed within the past month. Stop Child Executions Campaign strongly condemn Saeed’s execution and encourage readers to send a letter, condemning the execution, to Iran’s head of judiciary, Ayatollah Shahrudi who personally approves the child executions:

Head of the Judiciary,
His Excellency Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Justice Ministry BLDG. – Panzdah-Khordad (ARK) Sq.
Tehran. Iran.
Phone: [00 98 21] 391 1109
Fax: [00 98 21] 390 4986
Email:info@dadgostary-tehran.ir
(In the email subject line write:
URGENT LETTER TO AYATOLLAH HASHEMI SHAHROUDI )
Comment box through his website:
http://iranjudiciary.org/contactus-feedback-fa.html
(The fields are written in Persian. The first line is for your name, 2nd your email, 3rd the subject which should read ‘URGENT LETTER TO AYATOLLAH HASHEMI SHAHROUDI’ and 4th field is for your comments)

Sources: Baluchistan’s People Party, Iranpress News, Etemaad Newspaper

Update on Delara Darabi

Delara is being kept in a prison in city of Rasht near Caspian sea in Iran. This year the excessive heat and humidity has made the living conditions in the prison very difficult. Last week Delara and other prisoners were forced to attend a religious occasion in the prison yard for long hours. By the time Delara was allowed to come back inside she was ill and had to be rushed for medical treatment due to heat exhaution.

Delara is ok now and was just visited by her family. She is only allowed 15 minutes visitations.

Iran sentenced another child to death

Masoud was 13 years old when he was separated from his mother. The court gave the custody of Masoud and his two

siblings to his father who was a drug addict. According to Islamic Sharia laws of Iran, the custody of children are given to the fathers. Masoud and his 2 siblings did not like to live with their father and grandmother. Not only they were very old and incapable of caring for them but they also they mistreated them. Although the father was very well to do but the children were also financially deprived. The father and grandmother were always angry with the children because their mother had divorced their addict father.

Masoud was not allowed to visit his mother. His mother later was forced to marry another man 20 year older than herself. Masoud was in midst of puberty and his father and grandmother constant degradation of his mother was causing much emotional pressure on him. At the age of 16, twice he attempted to commit suicide but he was saved. He did not care for his studies anymore and often skipped school. He often stayed out in the streets until late at nights only to avoid going home until 6 months ago when he came home late again and found his father and grandmother waiting for him. After much arguments, they again started degrading him and his mother. Masoud could no longer stand the profanities being used against his mother. This time he lost control of his emotions and attacked his father and grandmother with a knife. ” I don’t know what happened or what I did, until the time I found myself in hospital”. This happened 6 months ago.

Now 17 years old; Masoud is waiting for his death sentence which is expected to be carried out when he reaches the 18 years of age.

Last month Iran executed one of the children’s who were listed on the Stop Child Executions Campaign. However by adding Masoud the list of known names of children facing execution in Iran has now reached 33. Stop Child Executions Campaign demand reversal of the execution order because Masoud was less than 18 years old at the time of incident.

Source: International Committee Against Executions

To help save Masoud from execution please:

Sign the Stop Child Executions Petition
Contact everyone you know and ask them to sign the petition
Post the link to this site on blogs, Internet Forums and Chat rooms.
Also See Link To Us
Write personal letters to the UN and ask them to put pressure on the Iranian Officials to stop the executions of those who have allegedly committed an offence before the age of 18.
- UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon and
  UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Louise Arbour at:
  Petitions Team
  Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  United Nations Office at Geneva
  1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
  Fax: 41 22 917 9022
  (particularly for urgent matters)
  E-mail: tb-petitions@ohchr.org

Write a letter to Iranian Authorities

Contact TV/Radio and Print Media about the plight of these children.
(US Media can be found here)
Write to country leaders & politicians, your local members of parliament and your minister of foreign affairs. (US Officials can be found here)
Write to International Organizations

Voice of America Radio interview with Mina Ahadi about Delara Darabi

Mina Ahadi , head of International Committee Against Execution was interviewed on Voice of America Radio, Persian language. She expressed her concern about Delara Darabi and other children facing executions in Iran.

Ms Ahadi stated that according to the Nasrin Sotoudeh and other attorneys in Iran, the number of children facing execution in Iran is substantially more than the 32 known names.

Interview in persian: http://www.voanews.com/mediaassets/persian/2007_05/Audio/ra/MahdavB22May07.ra

فعاليت های ايرانيان برای نجات جان کودکان و نوجوانان از اعدام (نظير دلارا دارابی) در ايران

http://www.voanews.com/mediaassets/persian/2007_05/Audio/ra/MahdavB22May07.ra

دلارا دارابی يکی از نوجوانانی است که در ايران به اتهام قتل به اعدام محکوم شده است. خبرنگار بخش فارسی صدای آمريکا با خانم مينا احدی، فعال حقوق بشر و زنان در آلمان، گفتگويی انجام داده است پيرامون فعاليت های ايرانيان از جمله سازمانهای ايرانی مدافع حقوق کودگان و زنان برای نجات جان کودکانی که به مجازات اعدام محکوم شده اند.

Two 16 year old children sentenced to death in SUDAN

According to a recent Amnesty International report Abdelrhman Zakaria Mohamed and Ahmed Abdullah Suleiman, both aged 16, were sentenced to death by the Criminal Court in Nyala the capital of South Darfur on 3 May.

The two boys have since been transferred to Shalla Prison in North Darfur. This transfer is likely to affect their ability to communicate with their lawyer who is based in South Darfur. The boys lawyer will submit an appeal against the sentence to the court of appeal in Nyala on 15 May.

Background

Abdelrhman Zakaria Mohamed was found guilty of “murder”, “causing injury intentionally” and “robbery”. Ahmed Abdullah Suleiman was found guilty of “being an accomplice”. The boys lawyer will submit an appeal against the sentence to the court of appeal in Nyala on 15 May.

On 28 February 2007 Abdelrhman Zakaria Mohamed is accused of breaking into a house in the Alwhad area in Nyala, armed with a knife. A man living in the house raised the alarm and three male members of the family rushed to the scene. A scuffle ensued between the family members and Abdelrhman Zakaria Mohamed. Whilst the family members attempted to restrain him, Abdelrhman Zakaria Mohamed stabbed two of the men leaving one fatally wounded.

Once the family members had managed to restrain the intruder they took him to a police station. At this point Abdelrhman Zakaria Mohamed alleged to the police that his friend Ahmed Abdullah Suleiman had also been involved in the crime. Ahmed Abdullah Suleiman was then arrested and charged as an accomplice. He was found guilty and sentenced to death.

Majority of Sudan’s population are Arab Muslims. The government of Sudan which has poor human right records, maintains close ties with the Islamic regime in Iran. Sudan executed two minors on August 31, 2005. Child offenders have been among several groups of people sentenced to death by a special court in the western province of Dafur since 2002. The special court’s procedures fall far short of international norms for a fair trial. The Constitution of Sudan, ratified on July 9, 2005, failed to abolish the death penalty in Sudan — particularly as it applies to those under the age of 18. Sudan ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child on 3 August 1990 and is party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Under the terms of these treaties, Sudan has undertaken not to execute anyone for an offence committed whilst under 18 years of age.

Stop Child Execution Campaign oppose child Execution in all countries and appeal to the Sudanese Government to comply with it’s obligation to the United Nation’s Children Rights Covenants.

What you can do to help:

Please send a letter to: The Sudanese minister, Mr Muhammad Ali al-Maradhi at:

Mr Muhammad Ali al-Maradhi
Minister of Justice and Attorney General
Ministry of Justice
PO Box 302, Khartoum, Sudan

Fax: + 249 183 780796

info@sudanjudiciary.org

expressing concern for Abdelrhman Zakaria Mohamed and Ahmed Abdullah Suleiman;
stating that children detained should only be held in juvenile offenders institutions and only tried in a juvenile court with full protection of their rights as children;
remind the government of Sudan that the use of death penalty against child offenders – people who were under 18 at the time of the crime – is prohibited under international law. The Geneva Conventions, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, all have provisions exempting this age group from execution.

Curtesy: http://action.amnesty.org.au:80/index.php/centre/action/sudan_children_sentenced_to_death/

You are his last hope

Sina suffered from mental disorder. Like many hopeless Iranian youth , he was also addicted to drugs. According to United nations statistics, Islamic Republic of Iran has the highest proportion of opiate addicts in the world — 2.8 percent of the population over age 15 and that does not include all other forms drugs that have been made accesible to Iranian youth who represent majority of Iranian population. A 10 billion dollar market which amounts to three quarters of the total revenue from Iran’s oil market during the same period. Sina was simply another byproducts of the a society that the Iranian Mullahs have created.

That day in 2004, Sina went to the park that to buy drugs where a fight broke out between him and the drug dealer. 16 year old Sina stabbed the man……

Later Sina Paymand was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Last year the Supreme Court of Islamic regime in Iran upheld the death sentence . He was then scheduled to be hanged on 20 September 2006, two weeks after his 18th birthday. Many human right activists and organization including Nazanin Afshin-Jam at the time objected to the execution of Sina.

September 20th, was the first day of fall and the first day of school for Iranian children but this year was different for Sina. It was not the voice of his parents that woke him up to go to school but it was the voice of prison guards.

”Wake up, today is the day.” Sina heard.

After he was prepared, he was taken to the execution pole. The prison Mullah read parts of Koran to him. The verse started with a sentence: “In the name of God, the most merciful, the most compassionate”. The verses were echoing in Sina’s head. How could the government appointed Mullah believe in those words if they were walking him to his death?!

“Do you have any final wish?” said the executioner as he put the noose around Sina’s neck.

“Yes” replied Sina . ”I’d like to play my flute one last time”

Sina waited until a prison official of Tehran ‘s Rajai-Shar prison brought the flute from his cell. As he was blowing into the flute playing his favorite song, Sina could almost feel his last breaths.

As Sina neared the end of his favorite melody, silence fell across the prison yard as if everyone knew the end of Sina‘ song was also a signal to the end of his 18 year young life.

The executioner put the rope around Sina’s neck again. He heard someone shout, “STOP!”

Executioner turned to the voice. It was one of family members of the murdered man who were there to observe the execution. “Don’t kill him, we will ask for blood money”!

According to Sharia laws of Iran , the family of the victim can decide about the life or death of the accused and in return ask for blood money retribution.

Last month Sina was ordered to pay $150,000 to the family of the deceased but his father was only able to gather $70,000.

Yesterday in a desperate plea to Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Sina’s attorney, Mrs. Nasrin Sotoudeh said: “We have no more legal remedies to stop the execution of Sina Paymand, it can happen anytime. His father could not come up with the money”

Last month the Iranian government executed a minor and Sina could be next. Please help save Sina’s life. As his attorney told Stop Child Execution Campaign, “You are Sina’s last hope.”

To help save Sina from execution please:

Sign the Stop Child Executions Petition
Contact everyone you know and ask them to sign the petition
Post the link to this site on blogs, Internet Forums and Chat rooms.
Also See Link To Us
Write personal letters to the UN and ask them to put pressure on the Iranian Officials to stop the executions of those who have allegedly committed an offence before the age of 18.
- UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon and
  UN High Commissioner of Human Rights, Louise Arbour at:
  Petitions Team
  Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
  United Nations Office at Geneva
  1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
  Fax: 41 22 917 9022
  (particularly for urgent matters)
  E-mail: tb-petitions@ohchr.org

Write a letter to Iranian Authorities

Contact TV/Radio and Print Media about the plight of these children.
(US Media can be found here)
Write to country leaders & politicians, your local members of parliament and your minister of foreign affairs. (US Officials can be found here)
Write to International Organizations

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