{"id":3998491,"date":"2008-10-14T21:44:48","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=3998491"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:14:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:14:26","slug":"haddadis-execution-halted-hashemi-is-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2008\/10\/14\/haddadis-execution-halted-hashemi-is-free\/","title":{"rendered":"HADDADI&#8217;s execution halted, HASHEMI is free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"UATopInfo\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 171.0pt right 477.0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">&#160;14 October 2008&#160; &#160;<\/span>AI Index: MDE 13\/151\/2008<span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<\/span> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/?><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"UATopInfo\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 171.0pt right 477.0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 2\">&#160;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/minors\/haddadi.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"UATopInfo\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>&#160;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"UATopInfo\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 81.0pt 170.95pt 4.0in\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Juvenile offender <strong>Mohammad Reza Haddadi<\/strong>, who was scheduled to be executed on 9 October, has had his execution postponed. The spokesperson of the judiciary told the press at his weekly press conference on 7 October that Haddadi&#8217;s death sentence had been confirmed, but his execution had been halted. He did not give a new execution date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">&#160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>Iman Hashemi<\/strong> was pardoned in September by the family of the man he was convicted of killing, <span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">and is now free.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">&#160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Mohammad Reza Haddadi is held&#160;in Adelabad prison in the city of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/?><br \/>\nShiraz.<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">He<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">was sentenced to death in January 2004 for a murder committed in 2003, when he was 15. He had confessed to the murder, but retracted the confession during his trial, saying he had claimed responsibility for the killing only because his two co-defendants had offered to give his family money if he did so. He said during the trial that he had not taken part in the murder. His co-defendants later supported Mohammad Reza Haddadi&#8217;s claims of innocence, and withdrew their testimony that had implicated him in the murder. They were both over 18 at the time of the crime and <span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">received prison sentences.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">&#160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">There is no further news on<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>Naser Qasemi<\/strong>, who was sentenced to death for a crime committed when he was 15.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"UATopInfo\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>Further Information on UA 71\/08 (MDE 13\/049\/2008, 13 March 2008) and follow-up (MDE 13\/120\/2008, 19 August 2008) &#8211; <span style=\"TEXT-DECORATION: underline\">Fear of execution<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"UATopInfo\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 171.0pt right 477.0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">&#160;14 October 2008&#160; &#160;<\/span>AI Index: MDE 13\/151\/2008<span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1\">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<\/span> <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/?><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"UATopInfo\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 171.0pt right 477.0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 2\">&#160;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/minors\/haddadi.jpg\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"UATopInfo\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>&#160;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"UATopInfo\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 81.0pt 170.95pt 4.0in\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Juvenile offender <strong>Mohammad Reza Haddadi<\/strong>, who was scheduled to be executed on 9 October, has had his execution postponed. The spokesperson of the judiciary told the press at his weekly press conference on 7 October that Haddadi&#8217;s death sentence had been confirmed, but his execution had been halted. He did not give a new execution date.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">&#160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>Iman Hashemi<\/strong> was pardoned in September by the family of the man he was convicted of killing, <span style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: bold\">and is now free.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">&#160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">Mohammad Reza Haddadi is held&#160;in Adelabad prison in the city of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/?><br \/>\nShiraz.<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">He<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"FONT-FAMILY: 'Amnesty Trade Gothic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\" xml:lang=\"EN-GB\">was sentenced to death in January 2004 for a murder committed in 2003, when he was 15. He had confessed to the murder, but retracted the confession during his trial, saying he had claimed responsibility for the killing only because his two co-defendants had offered to give his family money if he did so. He said during the trial that he had not taken part in the murder. His co-defendants later supported Mohammad Reza Haddadi&#8217;s claims of innocence, and withdrew their testimony that had implicated him in the murder. 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