{"id":1778562,"date":"2007-05-19T20:14:30","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=1778562"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:42:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:42:17","slug":"are-you-mohammads-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2007\/05\/19\/are-you-mohammads-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you Mohammad&#039;s Mother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"left\" width=\"117\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeo.blog.com\/repository\/802949\/2008011.jpg\" height=\"255\" \/>Mohammad was 16 years old when he was imprisoned&#160;for an alleged murder. He 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&#160;minors facing execution in Iran. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/Sina.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">Sina Paymard<\/a> is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after Mohammad Mousavi&#8217;s mother hired her own attorney, she was contacted by Mr. Marvi, an official of&#160;Iran&#8217;s judiciary in the central city of Shiraz where they reside. Mr. Marvi told Ms. Mousavi&#160;not to publicize&#160;her son&#8217;s execution verdict&#160;and&#160;to fire her&#160;new attorney and in return&#160;he promised that Mohammad&#160;would not be executed because he was only 16 at the time of the alleged crime. Relying on the Iranian official&#8217;s promise , the&#160;desperate mother told&#160;the new attorney not to proceed with defending her son. She also avoided talking to media or human right advocates about her son&#8217;s situation.<\/p>\n<p>On April 22, 2007 she was contacted by the&#160;Iranian authorities, But what she heard was not the promised news of commuting of her son&#8217;s death penalty. Instead she was told:<\/p><\/div>\n<div>&#8221; Your son was executed this morning, please make necessary arrangements to collect his body&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The execution orders of minors in Iran&#160;require&#160;direct approval (Estizan) of Iran&#8217;s head of judiciary, Ayatollah Sharudi.&#160; The Judiciary of Islamic Republic of Iran did not even extend Mohammad and his mother their&#160;most basic human right of a saying good bye to each other.&#160;Mohammad was 19 at the time of&#160;execution. Ms. Mousavi has not heard from Mr. Marvi anymore.<\/p>\n<p>To permanently Stop Child Executions in Iran, please visit<\/p><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/\">https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"left\" width=\"117\" src=\"http:\/\/amadeo.blog.com\/repository\/802949\/2008011.jpg\" height=\"255\" \/>Mohammad was 16 years old when he was imprisoned&#160;for an alleged murder. He 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&#160;minors facing execution in Iran. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/Sina.aspx\" rel=\"noopener\">Sina Paymard<\/a> is one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after Mohammad Mousavi&#8217;s mother hired her own attorney, she was contacted by Mr. Marvi, an official of&#160;Iran&#8217;s judiciary in the central city of Shiraz where they reside. Mr. Marvi told Ms. Mousavi&#160;not to publicize&#160;her son&#8217;s execution verdict&#160;and&#160;to fire her&#160;new attorney and in return&#160;he promised that Mohammad&#160;would not be executed because he was only 16 at the time of the alleged crime. Relying on the Iranian official&#8217;s promise , the&#160;desperate mother told&#160;the new attorney not to proceed with defending her son. She also avoided talking to media or human right advocates about her son&#8217;s situation.<\/p>\n<p>On April 22, 2007 she was contacted by the&#160;Iranian authorities, But what she heard was not the promised news of commuting of her son&#8217;s death penalty. Instead she was told:<\/p><\/div>\n<div>&#8221; Your son was executed this morning, please make necessary arrangements to collect his body&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The execution orders of minors in Iran&#160;require&#160;direct approval (Estizan) of Iran&#8217;s head of judiciary, Ayatollah Sharudi.&#160; The Judiciary of Islamic Republic of Iran did not even extend Mohammad and his mother their&#160;most basic human right of a saying good bye to each other.&#160;Mohammad was 19 at the time of&#160;execution. Ms. Mousavi has not heard from Mr. Marvi anymore.<\/p>\n<p>To permanently Stop Child Executions in Iran, please visit<\/p><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/\">https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1778562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196436,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778562\/revisions\/5196436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}