IRAN: ANOTHER JUVENILE OFFENDER IN SANANDAJ PRISON SENTENCED TO DEATH

April 1, 2016: According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), a juvenile offender (K.N) imprisoned at Sanandaj Prison, who at the time of crime was 17 years and 9 months old, was sentenced to death by retaliation in kind (Qisas) for murder.
One of K.N’s relatives has told HRANA’s reporter: “He was born in May 1997. In a group brawl, he has killed a person he didn’t know at all. He was only 17 years and 9 months old when he committed the crime.”
He added: “A public lawyer was assigned for him, and was not even sent to forensics to be tested for cognitive and psychosocial developments. In October 2015, after the first trial presided by judge Hamed Soltan-Bakhsh at branch number 1 of the criminal court of Sanandaj, he has been sentenced to Qisas (retaliation in kind), however this sentence was disclosed to him with a delay just recently.”
It is worth mentioning that there are currently four more juvenile offenders imprisoned in Sanandaj Prison, who have been arrested and sentenced to death. All of these four juvenile prisoners have been charged with murder. Below is the previously gathered reports of HRANA on the identity and age at the time of murder or arrest of these prisoners:
Yousef Mohammadi, born in 1995, age at the time of arrest: 14, sentenced to death;
Himan Orami-Nejhad, born in 1997, age at the time of arrest: 17 years and 9 months, year in which the crime was committed: 2011, sentenced to death;
Siavash Mahmoudi, born in 1995, age at the time of arrest: 17, sentence to death, Note: he has claimed that the murder was the result of a self-defense against sexual assault.
Amanj Hosseini (Oveisi), age at the time of arrest: 17, sentenced to death. (Fonti: HRANA News Agency, 01/04/2016)