Young Woman Put to Death
in Iran for Crime Committed as Juvenile
ایران اعدام افرادی که زیر سن قانونی مرتکب
جرم میشود را متوقف کند و به محروم کردن متهمان از دادرسی عادلانه پایان دهد
OCTOBER 2, 2018
October 2, 2018 – The Center for Human
Rights in Iran (CHRI) condemns the execution of Zeinab Sekaanvand Lankarani who was charged with
murder as a juvenile and hanged in violation of all international laws and
standards, and calls on the Iranian judiciary to immediately halt the
executions of all juvenile offenders.
“Iran claims it doesn’t execute
juveniles but it isn’t fooling anyone by arresting minors and waiting until
they’re adults to hang them,” said CHRI’s Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi.
“Zeinab Sekaanvand was married off at
15, jailed at 17 and later executed for the charge of murder despite evidence
that she had been forced to confess to the crime under torture,” Ghaemi added.
After her arrest in March 2012 for allegedly
murdering her husband, who she said had subjected her to repeated physical and
verbal abuse, Sekevaand was held in a police station in Oroumiyeh for 20 days
and subjected to torture by police officers “through beatings all over her
body,” Amnesty Internationalreported.
