Behnam Zare’ was 15 when he convicted with a murder, he spent 3 years in prison till he is 18 and now… this child is given 48 hrs to seek pardon from the family of the victim or he will be EXECUTED and become a victim himself of this barbaric inhumane judicial system.
The family how ever refused and Behnam Zare’ is at risk to be executed any minute now…
the Iranian court treats murders with the “quasas” i.e. the reprisal law , which brings us back hundreds of year ago, where those who invented this law where living in tents and … even though that Iran signed the
Juveniles justice along with the international law which clearly prohibit the execution as a punishment for those who committed crimes before they turned into 18, regardless of the crime.
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People who were under the age of 18 at the time the crime was committed may not be sentenced to death, regardless of their age at the time of trial or sentencing. Article 6(5) of the ICCPR, Article 37(a) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, paragraph 3 of the Death Penalty Safeguards, Rule 17.2 of The Beijing Rules, Article 4(5) of the American Convention. [Article 6(4) of Additional Protocols I and II to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 prohibit the death penalty being pronounced on people aged less than 18 years at the time the crime was committed.]
The Inter-American Commission has stated that the prohibition on the execution of children is emerging as a norm of international customary law, in view of the number of states which have ratified the American Convention and ICCPR, and have modified their national legislation in accordance with those treaties. [Resolution No. 3/87 (United States) Case 9647, Annual Report of the Inter-American Commission, 1986-1987, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.71, doc. 9 rev.1, 1987, para. 60. The Commission considered that the USA had violated provisions of the American Convention when it executed two juvenile offenders, even though having signed the Convention it had not yet ratified it.]
The Human Rights Committee deplored provisions in legislation in a number of states in the USA which allow the death penalty as a punishment for people under 18 at the time the crime was committed and the execution of such people. The Committee exhorted the authorities to ensure that people are not sentenced to death for crimes committed before they were 18. [Observations of the HRC: USA, UN Doc. CCPR/C/79/Add.50, 7 April 1995, para.16] “
This is not a solo case
More than 70 CHILD are now on the death row in Iran
4 comments:
Did he actually do it? By the way what's wrong with living in tents?
yes he did it... but even though.. he is a child and not to mention that Iran signed the international law that forbids the execution of children...
and as I said it is not a solo case... this is pure barbaric crime.
living in tents doesn’t matter what I meant was... humanity has now skyscrapers every where and we never grow as humans...
the low interact about this case starting with my post ending with the international media show that we are "humanely numb"
So is it alright for a child to commit murder? I mean, you don't even mention the person he murdered, like their life didn't matter.
Sure it is not alright, and I didn’t mention the victim cause I know nothing about the murder… all that I know is that this kid is about to become a victim himself…
What ever the crime is, it never justifies the killing of a child.
The convicted must have a full psychological assessment, must spend time in prison ( a corrective one) not being killed in return… it is so cruel, to put this child under the pressure and fear of being killed with the blessing of the government and the law… he is being killed every single day, every minute…
A murder never justify a murder
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