Amnesty: Many young people in Iran threatens the execution

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Amnesty: Many young people in Iran threatens the execution

Iran’s President Rohani is currently on the Europe trip and advertises to Wirtschaftsinvestitiotionen in his country. However, the justice system, it is still bad, reported Amnesty International.

Dozens of offenders in adolescence threatens in Iran, according to Amnesty International, despite recent reforms of the execution. The Affected are for crimes arrested, before 18. Years of age have committed, it said in a report published by the human rights organization. Many had already been years on death row spent.

Number of unrecorded cases is probably even higher

According to Amnesty, between 2005 and 2015 in Iran, at least 73 young offenders were executed, including at least four in the past year. The majority was due to murder, sentenced to death, others due to rape, Drogenvergehen and a threat to national security, under the offence of “enmity against God” falls.

Investigators from Amnesty international were according to the names and locations of the 49 young death row inmates. However, the estimated number of the Affected are higher, it said in the Report. A UN report from the year 2014, for example, had the number of young offenders in Iranian Todestrakten with more than 160 specified.

Despite reforms – laws allow the execution of nine-year-old girl

At the same time rejected Amnesty on judicial reform in Iran. In the year 2013 introduced would judges more discretion in taking into account the mental maturity of the accused. This allows for more lenient penalties. In addition, the Supreme court of Iran allows that processes, at the end of a death sentence is issued, re-can be rolled up. 2015 adopted Zusatzreformen see, in addition, that cases of young people facing particular Jugendgerichten negotiated would have to be.

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Amnesty is alarmed: Iran has, according to the human rights organisation, in the first half of the year 694 death sentences enforced. This is an “unprecedented increase”. It is unclear, how it came about. (23.07.2015)

And yet, should happen more, demanded Amnesty. Despite some reforms in the juvenile justice hinke of Iran the Rest of the world is still lagging behind, warned the London-based organization. So keep Tehran to laws, the executions only nine-year-old girls and fifteen year old boys allowed. Representatives of the Iranian government were not initially to the report.

Iran belongs to the countries in which the death penalty is most often applied. In the year 2014, ranked it according to Amnesty on the list of States with the highest Exekutionsquote behind China on rank two. On average, most death sentences in Iran because of drug smuggling enforcement.

The 110-page Amnesty report comes at a time of increased efforts by Tehran to rebuild its relations with the West in the course of the Atomdeals. The agreement was signed recently with the lifting of sanctions against Tehran and sealed, after the country steps to curb its nuclear programme could produce. Iran’s President Hassan Rohani is currently on a European tour which took him first to Italy. Rohani signed on Monday in Rome, according to Italian officials, contracts worth 17 billion euros, including an agreement with the Pipelinehersteller Saipem in the amount of five billion euros. On Tuesday, he meets Pope Francis. On Wednesday travels Rohani continued to Paris. There he meets a head of state, François Hollande, and contracts for the purchase of 114 Airbus aircraft sign.

as/boron (ape, dpa, amnesty)