{"id":3100782,"date":"2008-05-11T00:31:54","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=3100782"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:17:53","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:17:53","slug":"behnouds-first-mediation-attempt-was-unsuccessful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2008\/05\/11\/behnouds-first-mediation-attempt-was-unsuccessful\/","title":{"rendered":"Behnoud&#8217;s first mediation attempt was unsuccessful"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>According to Etemaad&#160;newspaper of Iran,&#160;the first mediation session with the family of the victim failed and they continued to insist on the execution of Behnoud Shojaee.<\/p>\n<p>Benhoud who was 17 years old at the time of the street quarrel which lead to the death of another boy, was scheduled to be put to death&#160;on Tuesday May 7th .&#160;However, due to international pressure, Iran&#8217;s head of judiciary postponed the death penalty for one month.<\/p>\n<p>Mediation Judge Jaberi told the Etemaad daily&#160;: &#8220;The victim&#8217;s family insist on death penalty for Behnoud but we will continue to try to obtain a reconciliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Islamic sharia&#160;laws in Iran, victims&#8217; families can either demand the implementation of the death sentence or receive blood money retribution instead.<\/p>\n<p>By shifting the responsibility of the child executions to the families of the victims ,when under international pressure,&#160;&#160;the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic tries to relieve itself from responsibility of ordering the death penalty of&#160;juveniles.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>In direct violation of&#160;signed UN conventions,&#160;the regime&#160;of Iran&#160;currently holds&#160;more than 100 juveniles&#160;in&#160;the execution row.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>According to Etemaad&#160;newspaper of Iran,&#160;the first mediation session with the family of the victim failed and they continued to insist on the execution of Behnoud Shojaee.<\/p>\n<p>Benhoud who was 17 years old at the time of the street quarrel which lead to the death of another boy, was scheduled to be put to death&#160;on Tuesday May 7th .&#160;However, due to international pressure, Iran&#8217;s head of judiciary postponed the death penalty for one month.<\/p>\n<p>Mediation Judge Jaberi told the Etemaad daily&#160;: &#8220;The victim&#8217;s family insist on death penalty for Behnoud but we will continue to try to obtain a reconciliation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Islamic sharia&#160;laws in Iran, victims&#8217; families can either demand the implementation of the death sentence or receive blood money retribution instead.<\/p>\n<p>By shifting the responsibility of the child executions to the families of the victims ,when under international pressure,&#160;&#160;the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic tries to relieve itself from responsibility of ordering the death penalty of&#160;juveniles.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>In direct violation of&#160;signed UN conventions,&#160;the regime&#160;of Iran&#160;currently holds&#160;more than 100 juveniles&#160;in&#160;the execution row.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[49,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100782"}],"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=3100782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5195925,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100782\/revisions\/5195925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}