Reacting to studies of the execution of a younger man and a younger protester, the European Union has known as on Iran to chorus from any future executions.
Peter Stano, lead spokesperson for overseas affairs and safety coverage of the European Union, said on Friday, “There are credible studies {that a} minor, Hamidreza Azari, and a protester, Milad Zohrevand, had been executed in Iran on November 24 and 23 respectively,” emphasizing the European Union’s “agency and principled opposition to using capital punishment always and in all circumstances.” Iran has hanged practically 700 folks this 12 months alone.
Stano additionally underlined that as a celebration to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Conventions on the Rights of the Child, the Islamic Republic is prohibited from imposing the demise penalty for crimes dedicated underneath the age of 18.
Hamid Azari was hanged on Friday morning on the Central Prison of Sabzevar within the northwestern province of Khorasan-e Razavi for complicity in stabbing Hamidreza Aldaghi to demise in a avenue combat in April.
Human Rights (IHR NGO), a Norway-based Iran Human Rights Organization, claims to have dependable proof that Azari was solely sixteen years and eight months previous on the time and seventeen years and three months when he was hanged.
According to IHR NGO, the Islamic Republic has hanged a minimum of 68 different little one offenders since 2010.
Stano’s assertion additionally mentions Milad Zohrevand, a building employee who was arrested throughout final 12 months’s protests in Malayer within the western province of Hamedan and was hanged on November 23 on costs of killing Ali Nazari, a Revolutionary Guard.
IHR NGO stated on December 1 that the Islamic Republic has executed over 700 in 2023 together with a minimum of 176 since October 7 when the battle in Gaza began.
IHR NGO urged the worldwide group and particularly European nations to “break their silence on the arbitrary execution of greater than three folks per day by the Islamic Republic.”
“The essential human rights scenario in Iran, and the demise penalty particularly, should not be compromised for political and regional issues. The worldwide group’s silence on executions is taken into account a inexperienced gentle by the Islamic Republic. IHR NGO stated.
Other prisoners, IHR NGO says, have typically been hanged in teams of a number of in numerous prisons for political crimes, drug offenses and homicide.
On November 29, for example, a bunch of seven prisoners had been executed in Ghezelhesar Prison close to Karaj. These included Ayub Karimi who was sentenced to demise for moharebeh (enmity in opposition to God) and efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth) costs. Two others had been sentenced to demise for drug-related costs whereas the remaining 4 had been sentenced to demise qisas (retribution-in-kind) for homicide.