Iran's situation grimmer – Children facing execution triple to 79 this year

In February 2007 when Stop Child Execution Petition was launched we were aware of 25 recorded cases of children awaiting execution in Iran.  Due to heightened awareness about the subject within Iran every month parents and lawyers of more children in Iran have contacted SCE and others asking for help.

Only in the past 10 days we have been informed of 4 more children facing execution (all being represented by Mohammad Mostafaei).  The recorded number of children awaiting execution in Iran has now more than tripled to 79 .

As of August 27, 2007 SCE has recorded 85 children facing executions worldwide: 79 in Iran, 2 in Saudi Arabia, 2 in Sudan and 2 in Yemen, all Islamic countries. So far in 2007 there are 3 known cases of child executions, 2 in Iran and 1 in Saudi Arabia.

 IRAN (79) – names in bold were added in the past month!

Girls (3):

Boys (76):

  • Abbass Hosseini, 17
  • Abdolkhaleq Rakhshani
  • Ahmad Jabari, 15
  • Ahmad Nourzahi, 12
  • Akoo Hosseini
  • Ali Alijan, 17
  • Ali Mahin Torabi, 16
  • Ali Norumohammadi, 16
  • Ali Shabehzadeh, 17
  • Alireza Movassili Roudi, 16
  • Amir Calehchaleh, 17
  • Asghar, 16
  • Behador Khaleqi, 16
  • Behnam Zare, 15
  • Beniamin Rasouli, 17
  • Farshad Sa’eedi, 17
  • Farzad, 15
  • Feyz Mohammad, 16
  • Feyzollah Soltani
  • Gholam Nabi Barahouti, 16
  • Habib Afsar, 15
  • Hamed, 15
  • Hamid, 17
  • Hamid Reza, 14
  • Hamzeh S., 17
  • Hani Momeni Yasaqi
  • Hasan Mozaffari
  • Hedayat Niroumand, 14 or 15
  • Hossein Gharabaghloo, 16
  • Hossein Haghi, 17
  • Hossein Toranj, 17
  • Iman, 17
  • Khodamorad Shahemzadeh, 17
  • Mahmoud, 17
  • Masoud, 17
  • Mehdi, 16
  • Mehyar Haghgoo, 17
  • Mehyar Anvari, 17
  • Milad Bakhtiari, 16
  • Mohammad Ahmadi 16
  • Mohammad Jahedi
  • Mohammad Jamali Paghale, 15
  • Mohammad Latif, 14
  • Mohammad Mavari, 16
  • Mohammad Pezhman
  • Mohammad Reza Turk
  • Morteza Feizi, 16
  • Mosleh Zamani 17
  • Mostafa, 16
  • Mostafa Sa’idi
  • Nabavat Baba’I, 17
  • Na’im Kolb’ali, 15
  • Naser Qasemi, 15
  • Ne’mat, 15
  • Nosrat, 15
  • Omarraddin Alkuzehi, 17
  • Omid Sarani, 17
  • Rahman Shahidi
  • Rasoul Eyvatvandi, 17
  • Rasoul Mohammadi, 17
  • Rasoul Nouriyani
  • Rasoul Safari, 17
  • Reza Alinejad, 17
  • Reza Padashi, 16
  • Saber
  • Sadegh Ahmadpour, 17
  • Sa’eed Jazee, 17
  • Safar Angooti, 17
  • Sa’id Arab
  • Sajjad, 17
  • Salman Akbari, 17
  • Shahram Pourmansouri, 17
  • Sina Paymard, 16
  • Siyavash Shirnejad
  • Vahid, 16
  • Zolf’ali Hamzeh,

SAUDI ARABIA (2):

  • Rizana Nafeek (female – 17)
  • Sultan Kohail (male – 16)

SUDAN (2):

  • Abdelrhman Zakaria Mohamed (male – 16)
  • Ahmed Abdullah Suleiman (male – 16)

YEMEN (2):

  • Walid Haikal (male – 15)
  • Hafez Ibrahim (male – 16)

Recorded Child Executions in 2007:

IRAN (2)

  • Mohammad Mousavi, Male-16 (Mohammd is listed on SCE petition but he was executed on April 22, 2007)

SAUDI ARABIA (1)