Iran: End the Double Talk - Time to End the Death Penalty for Children

Amnesty Internationa, Public Statement:

31 January 2005

Amnesty International urges the all relevant Iranian authorities, including the judiciary, to act in accordance with the Government of Iran's public pronouncements and take urgent measures to bring its law and practice in line with its obligations as a state party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention) and end the imposition of death penalty on children. ...

The Committee noted that the Iranian delegation had stated, in the course of the public consideration of Iran's report, that Iran had suspended executions of persons for having committed crimes before the age of 18. In its Concluding Observations, the Committee "deplores the fact that such executions have continued since the Committee's consideration of the State party's initial report, including one such execution on the day of the examination of the current report."...

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