{"id":2191121,"date":"2007-10-16T15:36:23","date_gmt":"2007-10-16T07:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=2191121"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:26:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:26:27","slug":"nazanin-afshin-jam-on-al-jazeera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2007\/10\/16\/nazanin-afshin-jam-on-al-jazeera\/","title":{"rendered":"Nazanin Afshin-Jam on Al-Jazeera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/84F97508-7919-461B-B688-697A29BC00E8.htm\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>&#160;<br \/>\nAl-Jazeera<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <strong><em>Saturday October 6, 2007:<\/em><br \/><\/strong><br \/>\nThe killing of any child is tragic, but when it is a state sanctioned affair it often creates a moral and legal dilemma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nUnder international law it is forbidden to execute a minor, yet this happens across the world in countries&#160;such as&#160;the United States, China and Nigeria.&#160;&#160;&#160; <em>(Correction by SCE: USA no longer executes minors by supreme court order. Last child executed in USA was 2003. Last recorded child executed in Nigeria was 10 years ago in 1997. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.amnesty.org\/pages\/deathpenalty-children-stats-eng\" rel=\"noopener\">Source amnesty international<\/a>)<\/em><br \/>\n&#160;<br \/>\nBut the country with the greatest number of child executions is Iran, where more than 80 minors are on death row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Monday, the <em>Riz Khan<\/em> show speaks to former beauty queen and singer Nazanin Afshin-Jam about her campaign against child executions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nBorn in Iran, Nazanin&#8217;s work has stirred controversy in her homeland, made her the target of death threats and resulted in the saving of one young girl&#8217;s life. We ask Nazanin about her work, the personal cost and whether or not it is ever acceptable to execute a child:<br \/>\n&#160;<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7J4YrUCSFSs\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7J4YrUCSFSs\" \/><param name=\"autoStart\" value=\"0\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7J4YrUCSFSs\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/>alt : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7J4YrUCSFSs\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7J4YrUCSFSs<\/a><\/object>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/84F97508-7919-461B-B688-697A29BC00E8.htm\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>&#160;<br \/>\nAl-Jazeera<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <strong><em>Saturday October 6, 2007:<\/em><br \/><\/strong><br \/>\nThe killing of any child is tragic, but when it is a state sanctioned affair it often creates a moral and legal dilemma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nUnder international law it is forbidden to execute a minor, yet this happens across the world in countries&#160;such as&#160;the United States, China and Nigeria.&#160;&#160;&#160; <em>(Correction by SCE: USA no longer executes minors by supreme court order. Last child executed in USA was 2003. Last recorded child executed in Nigeria was 10 years ago in 1997. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/web.amnesty.org\/pages\/deathpenalty-children-stats-eng\" rel=\"noopener\">Source amnesty international<\/a>)<\/em><br \/>\n&#160;<br \/>\nBut the country with the greatest number of child executions is Iran, where more than 80 minors are on death row.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On Monday, the <em>Riz Khan<\/em> show speaks to former beauty queen and singer Nazanin Afshin-Jam about her campaign against child executions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\nBorn in Iran, Nazanin&#8217;s work has stirred controversy in her homeland, made her the target of death threats and resulted in the saving of one young girl&#8217;s life. We ask Nazanin about her work, the personal cost and whether or not it is ever acceptable to execute a child:<br \/>\n&#160;<\/p>\n<p><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7J4YrUCSFSs\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7J4YrUCSFSs\" \/><param name=\"autoStart\" value=\"0\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7J4YrUCSFSs\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/>alt : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7J4YrUCSFSs\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7J4YrUCSFSs<\/a><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[8,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191121"}],"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=2191121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196213,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191121\/revisions\/5196213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}