{"id":2379595,"date":"2007-12-06T16:06:25","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T09:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=2379595"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:20:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:20:43","slug":"makwan-mouloudzadeh-was-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2007\/12\/06\/makwan-mouloudzadeh-was-executed\/","title":{"rendered":"Makwan Mouloudzadeh was executed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/minors\/makavan.jpg\" \/><strong>Makwan Mouloudzadeh, <font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">an Iranian Kurd,<\/font> has been hanged&#160;despite his alleged rape victims withdrawing their accusations and a judicial review and stay of execution being ordered into the sentence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Makwan Mouloudzadeh, 20, was accused of raping&#160;raping three teenage boys when he was 13 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe hanging took place on Wednesday morning at a prison in Kermanshah province in western Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On 11 November the head of the justice administration of Kermanshah received an order from the judiciary head, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, to stop the verdict being carried out,&#8221; the lawyer, Saeed Eqbali, was quoted as saying.&#160; &#8220;But the case, which was supposed to be reviewed in Tehran, was sent back from there to Kermanshah, and the execution was carried out quickly,&#8221; the lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Clarisa Bencomo of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) group told Reuters news agency she had received information that Mr Mouloudzadeh&#8217;s family had been told to come and pick up his body.&#160; Her organisation had spoken to people who had seen the body, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Makwan&#160;was arrested in September 2006 after three boys&#160;complained to police he had raped them seven years earlier.&#160; During court proceedings, Makwan&#160;withdrew a confession he had made earlier, saying it had been the result of coercion by the police, the US-based group says and the alleged victims also later withdrew their claims.<\/p>\n<p>As a state that is party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Iran has undertaken not to execute child offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has executed at least five&#160;minors so far in 2007 and 27 minors since 1990.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>For more background information about&#160;Makwan&#8217;s&#160;Moloudzadeh&#160;visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/scenews.blog.com\/\/Makwan+Moloudzadeh\/\">http:\/\/scenews.blog.com\/\/Makwan+Moloudzadeh\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7130380.stm\" rel=\"noopener\">Source: BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/minors\/makavan.jpg\" \/><strong>Makwan Mouloudzadeh, <font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">an Iranian Kurd,<\/font> has been hanged&#160;despite his alleged rape victims withdrawing their accusations and a judicial review and stay of execution being ordered into the sentence.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Makwan Mouloudzadeh, 20, was accused of raping&#160;raping three teenage boys when he was 13 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe hanging took place on Wednesday morning at a prison in Kermanshah province in western Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On 11 November the head of the justice administration of Kermanshah received an order from the judiciary head, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, to stop the verdict being carried out,&#8221; the lawyer, Saeed Eqbali, was quoted as saying.&#160; &#8220;But the case, which was supposed to be reviewed in Tehran, was sent back from there to Kermanshah, and the execution was carried out quickly,&#8221; the lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>Clarisa Bencomo of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) group told Reuters news agency she had received information that Mr Mouloudzadeh&#8217;s family had been told to come and pick up his body.&#160; Her organisation had spoken to people who had seen the body, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Makwan&#160;was arrested in September 2006 after three boys&#160;complained to police he had raped them seven years earlier.&#160; During court proceedings, Makwan&#160;withdrew a confession he had made earlier, saying it had been the result of coercion by the police, the US-based group says and the alleged victims also later withdrew their claims.<\/p>\n<p>As a state that is party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Iran has undertaken not to execute child offenders.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has executed at least five&#160;minors so far in 2007 and 27 minors since 1990.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>For more background information about&#160;Makwan&#8217;s&#160;Moloudzadeh&#160;visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/scenews.blog.com\/\/Makwan+Moloudzadeh\/\">http:\/\/scenews.blog.com\/\/Makwan+Moloudzadeh\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7130380.stm\" rel=\"noopener\">Source: BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[19,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379595"}],"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=2379595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196120,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2379595\/revisions\/5196120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2379595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2379595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2379595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}