Growing up on death row – before they are hanged
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Before they even reach adulthood, Iran is ending their lives. There are scores of young offenders on death row in Iran, and the authorities are continuing to sentence them to death.
Girls
as young as nine can be sentenced to execution; for boys it’s 15. At
least 73 young offenders were executed between 2005 and 2015. And the
authorities show no sign of stopping this horrific practice.
We have
the details of 49 people on Iran’s death row who were under 18 at the
time of the crime they are alleged to have committed.
The UN says there are at least 160 such people facing execution in the country. In fact, there are likely to be many more young offenders on Iranian death rows, as use of capital punishment in Iran is often shrouded in secrecy.
Growing up on death row – before they are hanged
Young
people condemned to death in Iran spend an average of seven years on
death row before being taken out of their cells to be hanged, though in
some cases juvenile offenders have spent over a decade on death row.
In
a number of cases the authorities have scheduled the executions of
juvenile offenders and then postponed them at the last minute, adding to
the mental and physical ordeal of imprisonment on death row – a
practice that is cruel, inhuman and degrading.
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