IRAN - Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee, a juvenile, has been executed

IRAN - Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee

01 January 2021 :

Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee, a juvenile, has been executed at Rasht Central Prison on December 31.
According to Iran Human Rights and Iran-HRM, Hassan Rezaei (the name is spelled differently from other sources: Mohammad Hassan Rezaii, Mohammad Hasan Rezaee, Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee, Hassan Rezaei) was executed in the early hours of this morning at Rasht Central Prison. According to his relatives, Hassan was 16 years old when he was arrested in 2007 in connection with the fatal stabbing of a man in a brawl, and sentenced to death for murder. He had spent the last 12 years on death row. He had been transferred for execution on two previous occasions, last year when he had managed to buy an extension from his victim’s family and a fortnight ago, when it was delayed. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, IHR director said: “The international community and European states in particular, must respond to this execution appropriately. Tens of other juvenile convicts are currently on death row in Iranian prisons, the only way to save them from the death penalty is to change the law through sustained international pressure. That child offenders are still being executed in 2020, is not only shameful for the Islamic Republic of Iran but also for the international community.”
In 2020, Iran was the only country to carry out the death penalty on juvenile offenders. According to data collected by IHR and international human rights organisations, the Islamic Republic is responsible for more than 70% of all executions of juvenile offenders in the last 30 years.
At the time of writing, Hassan’s execution has not been reported by domestic media or officials in Iran.

https://iranhr.net/en/articles/4558/

https://iran-hrm.com/index.php/2020/12/31/juvenile-offender-mohammad-hassan-rezaii-executed-in-iran/
 

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