{"id":2092663,"date":"2007-09-18T03:48:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T19:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=2092663"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:30:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:30:54","slug":"un-asks-iran-to-halt-child-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2007\/09\/18\/un-asks-iran-to-halt-child-executions\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Asks Iran To Halt Child Executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Following the last week&#8217;s contact by Nazanin Afshin-Jam with <strong>Louise Arbour,&#160;the United Nation&#8217;s top human rights <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"97\" src=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/News\/dh\/photos\/01-03-arbour.jpg\" height=\"127\" style=\"width: 97px; height: 127px\" \/>official on Monday asked Iran&#160;to immediately halt the execution of children<\/strong>.&#160;&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Louise Arbour, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, also said she met with Iranian officials during a visit to Tehran earlier this month and urged them to impose a moratorium on the execution of minors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Even if the legislation in the books appears to permit the imposition of the death penalty on minors &#8230; it would be imperative that they not be executed,&#8221;<\/em> she told journalists in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is one of the few countries in the world that executes minors, in violation of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday Iranian media reported that a 16 year old was among two teenagers sentenced to death for raping and killing two young boys earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Arbour said she opposed the death penalty in principle, but that countries who continue to apply it should at least abide by international law, which prohibits the execution of children.<\/p>\n<p><!-- sidebar --><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the last week&#8217;s contact by Nazanin Afshin-Jam with <strong>Louise Arbour,&#160;the United Nation&#8217;s top human rights <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"97\" src=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/News\/dh\/photos\/01-03-arbour.jpg\" height=\"127\" style=\"width: 97px; height: 127px\" \/>official on Monday asked Iran&#160;to immediately halt the execution of children<\/strong>.&#160;&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Louise Arbour, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, also said she met with Iranian officials during a visit to Tehran earlier this month and urged them to impose a moratorium on the execution of minors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Even if the legislation in the books appears to permit the imposition of the death penalty on minors &#8230; it would be imperative that they not be executed,&#8221;<\/em> she told journalists in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>Iran is one of the few countries in the world that executes minors, in violation of the U.N. 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