18 November 2019 :
An Amnesty report, with data updated to 2018, documented 145 executions of child offenders in 10 countries: China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Sudan, United States and Yemen. Many of these countries have meanwhile changed their laws, and the execution of minors is no longer allowed. From 2013 to today, 5 countries have continued to execute minors: Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, South Sudan and Yemen. Iran has executed more than twice the number of child offenders compared to the other nine countries combined. Combining data from the Amnesty report with data collected by Hands off Cain over the past 2 years, Iran has sent at least 103 "minors" to the scaffold since 1990. With data added by HoC, minors executed since 1990 in the world rise to 151, 103 of them killed by Iran. Iran is a signatory of the UN’s Convention on the Rights of the Child, which forbids use of the death penalty.
Name of prisoner |
Age |
Date of execution |
Kazem Shirafkan |
17 at time of execution |
1990 |
Male unk |
16 at time of execution |
29 September 1992 |
Male unk |
17 at time of execution |
29 September 1992 |
Male unk |
17 at time of execution |
29 September 1992 |
Manuchehr Taherian |
16 at time of execution |
November 1995 |
Ebrahim Qorbanzadeh |
17 at time of execution |
24 October 1999 |
Jassem Ebrahimi |
17 at time of execution |
14 October 2000 |
Mehrdad Yousefi |
16 at time of offence |
29 May 2001 |
Mohammad Mohammadzadeh |
17 at time of offence |
25 January 2004 |
Salman |
17 at time of offence |
12 May 2004 |
Atefeh Rajabi Sahaaleh |
16 at time of execution |
15 August 2004 |
Iman Farrokhi |
17 at time of offence |
19 January 2005 |
Ali Safarpour Rajabi |
16 or 17 at time of offence |
13 July 2005 |
Mahmoud Asghari |
15 or 16 at time of offence |
19 July 2005 |
Ayaz Marhoni |
16 or 17 at time of offence |
19 July 2005 |
Farshid Farighi |
14 to 16 at time of offences |
1 August 2005 |
unknown |
17 at time of execution |
23 August 2005 |
unknown |
17 at time of offence |
12 September 2005 |
Rostam Tajik |
16 at time of offence |
10 December 2005 |
Majid Segound (Sagvand) |
17 at time of execution |
13 May 2006 |
Sattar |
17 at time of offence |
September 2006 |
Morteza M |
16 at time of offence |
7 November 2006 |
Naser Batmani |
Under 18 at time of offence |
December 2006 |
Mohammad Mousawi |
16 at time of offence |
22 April 2007 |
Sa'id Qanabar Zahi |
17 at time of execution |
27 May 2007 |
Mohammad Pezhman (Pejman) |
Under 18 at time of offence |
29 May 2007 |
Amir Asgari |
Under 18 at time of offence |
10 October 2007 |
Hossein Gharabaghloo |
16 at time of offence |
17 October 2007 |
Babak Rahimi |
17 at time of execution |
17 October 2007 |
unk |
Under 18 at time of offence |
October 2007 |
unk |
Under 18 at time of offence |
October 2007 |
Mohamad Reza Tork |
16 at time of offence |
15 November 2007 |
Makwan Moloudzadeh |
13 at time of offence |
4 December 2007 |
Amir Hoshang Fazlollahzadeh |
Under 18 at time of offence |
31 December 2007 |
Javad Shojaee |
16 at time of offence |
26 February 2008 |
Mohammad Hassanzadeh |
16 or 17 at time of execution |
10 June 2008 |
Hasan Mozafari |
Under 18 at time of offence |
22 July 2008 |
Rahman Shahidi |
Under 18 at time of offence |
22 July 2008 |
Reza Hejazi |
15 at time of offence |
19 August 2008 |
Behnam Zare |
15 at time of offence |
26 August 2008 |
Gholamreza H |
17 at time of offence |
29 October 2008 |
Ahmad Zare |
17 at time of offence |
30 December 2008 |
Mola Gol Hassan |
17 at time of offence |
21 January 2009 |
Delara Darabi |
17 at time of offence |
1 May 2009 |
Ali Jafari |
17 at time of offence |
20 May 2009 |
Behnoud Shojaee |
17 at time of offence |
11 October 2009 |
Mosleh Zamani |
17 at time of offence |
17 December 2009 |
Mohammad A. |
17 at time of offence |
10 July 2010 |
A.N. |
17 at time of offence |
20 April 2011 |
H.B. |
17 at time of offence |
20 April 2011 |
Ali Reza Molla Soltani |
17 at time of execution |
21 September 2011 |
Mohammad Norouzi |
17 at time of offence |
18 September 2011 |
Vahid Moslemi |
17 at time of offence |
18 September 2011 |
Ehsan |
17 at time of offence |
21 October 2011 |
Amir Shirmohammadi |
17 at time of offence |
16 October 2011 |
Amir A. |
14 at time of offence |
18 April 2012 |
Shahruz |
17 at time of offence |
24 October 2012 |
Samad |
16 at time of offence |
24 October 2012 |
Bahram Ahmadi |
17 at time of offence |
27 December 2012 |
Said Afshar |
15 at time of offence |
3 July 2013 |
Abdolhamid Sekhavatian |
Under 18 at time of offence |
21 August 2013 |
Arman Mohammadi |
12 at time of offence |
20 August 2013 |
Unknown |
14 at time of offence |
18 September 2013 |
Unknown |
Under 18 at time of offence |
22 October 2013 |
Ahmad Seif Panahi |
16 at time of offence |
7 November 2013 |
Ahmad Jenkihoo |
15 at time of offence |
7 November 2013 |
Abdolaziz Ra’is |
17 at time of offence |
17 December 2013 |
Iraj Nasiri |
15 at time of offence |
19 December 2013 |
Mehras Rezaei |
17 at time of offence |
26 February 2014 |
Hassan Gholami |
14 at time of offence |
02 March 2014 |
Hassan Zolfaqari |
17 at time of offence |
02 March 2014 |
Reza Ganjlu |
16 at time of offence |
04 March 2014 |
Janat Mir |
Under 18 at time of offence |
April 2014 |
Ahmad Rahimi |
17 at time of offence |
17 April 2014 |
Ali Fouladi |
16 at time of offence |
17 April 2014 |
Ebrahim Hajati |
16 at time of offence |
21 April 2014 |
Amir Sardaha’i |
17 at time of offence |
10 June 2014 |
Hadi Veysi |
15 at time of offence |
25 August 2014 |
Fardin Ja’farian |
14 at time of offence |
18 October 2014 |
Rahim Norallahzadeh |
14 at time of offence |
30 November 2014 |
Javad Saberi |
17 at time of offence |
15 April 2015 |
Vazir Amroddin |
16 at time of offence |
June or July 2015 |
Samad Zahabi |
17 at time of offence |
06 October 2015 |
Fatemeh Salbehi |
17 at time of offence |
13 October 2015 |
Hassan Afshar |
17 at time of offence |
August 2016 |
Unknown |
Under 18 at time of offence |
x-x-2016 |
Mehrdad Arman Bahr Asemani |
16 at the time of offence |
15 January 2017 |
Hassan Hassan-Zadeh |
Under 18 at time of offence |
18 January 2017 |
Asghar Mohamadi |
16 at time of offence |
23 May 2017 |
Alireza Tajiki |
15 at time of offence |
10 August 2017 |
Amirhossein Pourjafar |
16 at time of offence |
04 January 2018 |
Ali Kazemi |
15 at time of offence |
30 January 2018 |
Mahboubeh Mofidi (Female) |
17 at time of offence |
30 January 2018 |
Abolfazl Chezani Sharahi |
14 at time of offence |
27 June 2018 |
Abolfazl Naderi |
16 at time of offence |
2 September 2018 |
Zeinab Sekaanvand (Female) |
17 at time of offence |
2 October 2018 |
Omid Rostami |
16 at time of offence |
14 November 2018 |
Farhad Akbari |
15 at time of offense |
15 January 2019 |
Amin Sedaghat |
16 at time of offense |
25 April 2019 |
Mehdi Sohrabifar (Sohrabi) |
16 at time of offense |
25 April 2019 |
Amirali (Amir Ali) Shadabi |
16 at time of offense |
14 July 2019 |
Touraj Ghassemi (Toraj Ghasemi, Qasemi, Turaj Azizi) |
16 at time of offense |
28 July 2019 |
Saeed Mohammadi |
16 at time of offense |
25 October 2019 |