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On Thursday, Iranian authorities carried out the death sentence against a 30-year-old man for a crime that occurred when he was 16, according to the opposition website Iran International.
The execution of Muhammad Muhsin Rezaei came despite Amnesty International’s warning about the danger of pursuing this work because the execution of the sentence against a young man, who was a “child” at the time of the crime, was a ” serious violation “of international human rights law.
The sentence was carried out in Lacan prison in Rasht, in northern Iran, where the Organization for Human Rights in Iran reported that Rezaei was transferred to solitary confinement to carry out the death penalty, and that his family had been summoned to the prison for a final visit, Wednesday.
Amnesty International said in a statement Wednesday that “the judicial process leading to Rezai’s conviction was grossly unfair,” noting that officials held him in solitary confinement despite his young age, without allowing him to contact his family or hire a lawyer.
And human rights organizations confirm that the young Iranian was repeatedly beaten, punched and kicked, and whipped with hoses to confess.
Rezaei was arrested in 2007, when he was 16 years old, in connection with the stabbing of a man in a “collective conflict”.
In 2008, the trial court relied on his forced “confession” to convict and sentence him to death, although it retracted their “confessions” in court and said they were transferred under torture.
Iranian authorities had planned to execute Rezaei two weeks ago, but withdrew after a wave of international protests.
Rezaei and his family did not have the financial resources to hire an attorney to file a formal request for a new trial on their behalf based on Article 91 of the 2013 Penal Code, which allows alternative punishment to death if the court decides that the accused minor did not understand the nature or consequences of the crime, or if his “Mental growth and maturity” at the time of committing the crime is in doubt.
Rezai’s father wrote to Iranian authorities in August 2019 requesting a new trial.
In early 2020, the family was informed that the case had been referred to Chamber 27 of the Supreme Court for consideration, but that they had not received any updates on the status of their application.
And Iran is one of the most prominent countries in the world that continues to apply the death penalty for crimes committed by persons under the age of 18, in violation of its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Human Rights Convention, in particularly the rights of the child.
The Iranian authorities have executed two other young men who were arrested, two children, Shayan Saeedpour and Majid Ismail Zadeh, in April 2020.
This followed the 2019 execution of at least six people in Iran who were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime.
