Human Rights

Human Rights Watch reported that Iran executed at least three child offenders across the country in January 2018. Human Rights Watch called on Iran to immediately and unconditionally end the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by children under the age of 18, and move toward a complete ban on capital punishment.

The organization named the three young people that were executed in January as Amirhossein Pourjafar, Ali Kazemi and Mahboubeh Mofidi. They were executed for crimes they allegedly committed when they were 16, 15 and 17 years old respectively.

Kavous Seyed-Emami, 63, a dual Canadian national environmentalist lost his life just two weeks after his arrest.

Iran’s judiciary says he committed suicide because of the evidence against him in a spying case.

Tehran’s Revolutionary Court summoned Sayed Emami’s wife, Maryam Mombini on February 9, and informed her of her husband’s sudden death.

London, 31 Jan - Human rights organisation Amnesty International has hit out at the “exceptionally cruel” execution of a juvenile offender in Iran.

Ali Kazemi, 22, was hanged on January 30 in a prison in Bushehr Province.

This execution was illegal under Iranian law, according to Amnesty, because no notice of the execution was given to Kazemi’s lawyer.

In a letter to the United Nations human rights rapporteur on January 31, the political prisoner Arash Sadeghi, who is on hunger strike, warned about the situation of Atena Daemi and Golkorki Iraee, while accusing five authorities of the Iranian regime's Prisons Organization.