{"id":3772494,"date":"2008-08-30T15:46:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T00:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=3772494"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:15:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:15:42","slug":"human-rights-watch-child-execution-is-rising-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2008\/08\/30\/human-rights-watch-child-execution-is-rising-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: Child Execution is “rising” in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HUMAN RIGHST WATCH
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\nCalling Iran\u2019s execution on August 26, 2008 of juvenile offender Behnam Zare abhorrent<\/strong>, Human Rights Watch urged the Iranian judiciary to immediately commute the sentences of more than 130 other prisoners facing death for crimes committed while children.  <\/p>\n

Zare is the sixth juvenile offender Iran has executed this year. No other country is known to have executed a juvenile offender in 2008. Since January 2005, Iran has executed at least 26 juvenile offenders. During the same period, only four other countries \u2013 Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, and Pakistan \u2013 are known to have executed any juvenile offenders, with a combined total of six such executions in the four countries.  
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\n\u201cIran leads the world in executing juvenile offenders\u201d said Clarisa Bencomo, researcher on children\u2019s rights in the Middle East at Human Rights Watch. \u201cEverywhere else, countries are moving to end this abhorrent practice, but in Iran the numbers of death sentences seem to be increasing.\u201d<\/strong>  
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\nZare\u2019s family and his lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, only learned of Zare\u2019s execution after the fact, although Iranian law requires that<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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the lawyer be notified 48 hours before the execution. Zare\u2019s family and lawyer had been trying to reach a settlement with the victim\u2019s family at the time of the execution.  
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\nZare\u2019s execution closely follows the execution of juvenile offender Seyyed Reza Hejazi at Isfahan Central Prison on August 19, 2008. Hejazi was 15 at the time of the crime, and repeatedly told authorities that he had not intended to kill the victim.  
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\nAs in the case of Zare, the authorities did not notify Hejazi\u2019s lawyer, also Mohammad Mostafaei, 48 hours prior to the execution. Instead, Mostafaei learned of the pending execution from a journalist the night before. Prison authorities refused to allow Mostafaei to visit Hejazi the morning of the execution, and he eventually left after a prison official told him the execution had been stayed. Instead, prison officials executed Hejazi an hour later.  
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\n\u201cKilling people for crimes committed as children provides neither justice nor safety for Iranian society,\u201d<\/strong> Bencomo said. \u201cThe Iranian authorities\u2019 willingness to lie to lawyers and to deprive families of a last chance to see their loved ones only underscores the depravity of these executions.\u201d  
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HUMAN RIGHST WATCH
<\/a>
\nCalling Iran\u2019s execution on August 26, 2008 of juvenile offender Behnam Zare abhorrent<\/strong>, Human Rights Watch urged the Iranian judiciary to immediately commute the sentences of more than 130 other prisoners facing death for crimes committed while children.  <\/p>\n

Zare is the sixth juvenile offender Iran has executed this year. No other country is known to have executed a juvenile offender in 2008. Since January 2005, Iran has executed at least 26 juvenile offenders. During the same period, only four other countries \u2013 Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen, and Pakistan \u2013 are known to have executed any juvenile offenders, with a combined total of six such executions in the four countries.  
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\n\u201cIran leads the world in executing juvenile offenders\u201d said Clarisa Bencomo, researcher on children\u2019s rights in the Middle East at Human Rights Watch. \u201cEverywhere else, countries are moving to end this abhorrent practice, but in Iran the numbers of death sentences seem to be increasing.\u201d<\/strong>  
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\nZare\u2019s family and his lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, only learned of Zare\u2019s execution after the fact, although Iranian law requires that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[36,19,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772494"}],"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=3772494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5195753,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772494\/revisions\/5195753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}