{"id":2773682,"date":"2008-02-24T09:21:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T02:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=2773682"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:18:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:18:39","slug":"a-message-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2008\/02\/24\/a-message-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;A message of hope&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/imagecache2.allposters.com\/images\/pic\/JAG\/03-PS18-2~Hope-Posters.jpg\" \/>Yesterday Stop Child Executions Campaign <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scenews.blog.com\/2771266\/\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> the freedom of Mohammad Latif who was sentenced to death at the age of 14 for killing Mansour Kahyaee during a fight.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter&#160;Masoumeh Ebtekar,&#160;a member of Tehran&#8217;s city council&#160;who helped mediate&#160;the release of Mohammad Latif, wrote&#160;that&#160;the parents of the victim (Hossein and Farideh Kahyaee)&#160;chose <strong><em>&#8220;not to ghisas (revenge)&#160;the death of their son in order to reduce hostility among youth, so that this would be a message&#160;of hope&#160;to reduce violence in the society<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Nazanin Afshin-Jam and SCE Campaign greatly appreciate the&#160;kind and humantarian&#160;gesture by the Kahyaee family and we also hope that the authorities of the government of Iran would immediately halt&#160;the execution order of more than&#160;100 other Iranian youth awaiting executions and instead focus on education and rehabilitaion of those&#160;children who may have committed a crime before the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p>Other key person who helped with the mediation was Seyed Mohammad Mojabi, another member of Tehran city council. SCE campaign&#160;thank the two&#160;city council members, Ms.&#160;Ebtekar and Mojabi for their humanitarian mediation efforts which resulted in saving the life of Mohammad Latif despite the execution order by Iran&#8217;s superior court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/imagecache2.allposters.com\/images\/pic\/JAG\/03-PS18-2~Hope-Posters.jpg\" \/>Yesterday Stop Child Executions Campaign <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/scenews.blog.com\/2771266\/\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> the freedom of Mohammad Latif who was sentenced to death at the age of 14 for killing Mansour Kahyaee during a fight.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter&#160;Masoumeh Ebtekar,&#160;a member of Tehran&#8217;s city council&#160;who helped mediate&#160;the release of Mohammad Latif, wrote&#160;that&#160;the parents of the victim (Hossein and Farideh Kahyaee)&#160;chose <strong><em>&#8220;not to ghisas (revenge)&#160;the death of their son in order to reduce hostility among youth, so that this would be a message&#160;of hope&#160;to reduce violence in the society<\/em><\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Nazanin Afshin-Jam and SCE Campaign greatly appreciate the&#160;kind and humantarian&#160;gesture by the Kahyaee family and we also hope that the authorities of the government of Iran would immediately halt&#160;the execution order of more than&#160;100 other Iranian youth awaiting executions and instead focus on education and rehabilitaion of those&#160;children who may have committed a crime before the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p>Other key person who helped with the mediation was Seyed Mohammad Mojabi, another member of Tehran city council. SCE campaign&#160;thank the two&#160;city council members, Ms.&#160;Ebtekar and Mojabi for their humanitarian mediation efforts which resulted in saving the life of Mohammad Latif despite the execution order by Iran&#8217;s superior court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[35,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773682"}],"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=2773682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5195982,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773682\/revisions\/5195982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}