Stop Child Executions Campaign
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The “Stop Child Executions” Campaign, is a non-profit organization co-founded by Nazanin Afshin-Jam, aims at putting an end to executions of minors in Iran. The campaign intends to raise awareness about this issue as well to put pressure on the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, both internally in Iran and internationally. This campaign is a follow-up effort to the successful campaign and petition that helped save the life of Nazanin Fatehi from execution. Preparation activities in support of this campaign commenced after release of nazanin Fatehi from prison and after more than 350,000 signatures that were signed worldwide. [1][2]
A petition has been made to obtain signatures and support worldwide which can be found on their website at www.stopchildexecutions.com. Campaign also has a news and update blog at scenews.blog.com/.
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[edit] Background Information
The organizers of the campaign consider that as a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the government of Iran has undertaken not to execute anyone for an offense committed when they were under the age of 18.
Article 6.5 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) declares: “Sentence of death shall not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below eighteen years of age” and the article 37(a) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) provides that: “Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offenses committed by persons below eighteen years of age”.
In January 2005, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which monitors states' compliance with the CRC, urged Iran to immediately stay all executions of child offenders and to abolish the use of the death penalty in such cases. In the summer of 2006, the Iranian Parliament reportedly passed a bill establishing special courts for children and adolescents. However, it has not yet been approved by the Council of Guardians, which supervises Iran's legislation to ensure conformity with Islamic principles. During the past four years, the Iranian authorities have reportedly been considering legislation to ban the death penalty for child offenders. Recent comments by a judiciary spokesperson indicates that the proposed law would only prohibit the death penalty for certain crimes, and not all crimes committed by children.
Since 1990 at least 31 executions of child offenders in Iran has been recorded.
When Stop Child Executions Campaign was initially formed, there were only 21 known names but as of May 27, 2008 SCE has recorded 104 children facing executions worldwide: 97 in Iran, 3 in Saudi Arabia, 3 in Sudan and 1 in Yemen.
9 juveniles are reported to have been executed since January 1, 2007: 8 in Iran and 1 in Saudi Arabia. 5 were saved from execution: 3 in Iran, 1 in Yemen, 1 in Saudi Arabia. [1][2][3][4]:
IRAN (97)
Girls (3):
- Delara Darabi, 17
- Nazbibi Ateshbejan, 16
- Soghra Najafpour, 13
Boys (94):
- Abbass Hosseini, 17
- Abdolkhaleq Rakhshani
- Ahmad, under 18
- Ahmad, 16
- Ahmad Jabari, 15
- Ahmad Mortazavian,15
- Ahmad Nourzahi, 12
- Akoo Hosseini
- Ali, 17
- Ali Alijan, 17
- Ali Amiri, 13
- Ali Mahin Torabi, 16
- Ali Norumohammadi, 16
- Ali Shabehzadeh, 17
- Alireza Movassili Roudi, 16
- Amir Amrollahi, 16
- Amir Calehchaleh, 17
- Asghar, 16
- Behador Khaleqi, 16
- Behnam Zare, 15
- Behnood, 17
- Behrouz Shojaee, 16
- Beniamin Rasouli, 17
- Ebrahim Mehrnahad, 16
- Farshad Sa'eedi, 17
- Farzad, 15
- Fazlorahman Jahraz, 16
- Feyz Mohammad, 16
- Feyzollah Soltani
- Gholam Nabi Barahouti, 16
- Habib Afsar, 15
- Hamed, 15
- Hamed Pour-Heydari, under 18
- Hamid, 17
- Hamid Reza, 14
- Hamzeh S., 17
- Hani Momeni Yasaqi
- Hasan Mozaffari
- Hedayat Niroumand, 14 or 15
- Hossein Haghi, 17
- Hossein Toranj, 17
- Iman Hashemi, 17
- Javid, 17
- Khodamorad Shahemzadeh, 17
- Khosrow, 16
- Mahmoud, 17
- Masoud, 17
- Masoud Kafshir, under 18
- Mehdi, 16
- Mehdi Azimi, under 18
- Mehyar Haghgoo, 17
- Mehyar Anvari, 17
- Milad Bakhtiari, 16
- Mohammad Ahmadi 16
- Mohammad Fadaee, 17
- Mohammad Ghos, 17
- Mohammad Jahedi
- Mohammad Jamali Paghale, 15
- Mohammad Mavari, 16
- Mohammad Pezhman
- Mohammadreza Haddadi, 16
- Morteza Feizi, 16
- Mosleh Zamani 17
- Mostafa, 16
- Mostafa Sa'idi
- Mostafa Naghdi, under 18
- Nabavat Baba'I, 17
- Na'im Kolb'ali, 15
- Naser Qasemi, 15
- Ne'mat, 15
- Nosrat, 15
- Omarraddin Alkuzehi, 17
- Omid Sarani, 17
- Rahim Ahmadi, 16
- Rahman Shahidi
- Rasoul Eyvatvandi, 17
- Rasoul Mohammadi, 17
- Rasoul Nouriyani
- Rasoul Safari, 17
- Reza,16
- Reza Alinejad, 17
- Reza Padashi, 16
- Saber
- Sadegh Ahmadpour, 17
- Saeed Jazee, 17
- Safar Angooti, 17
- Sa'id Arab
- Sajjad, 17
- Salman Akbari, 17
- Seyed Reza Hejazi, 15
- Shahram Pourmansouri, 17
- Siyavash Shirnejad
- Vahid, 16
- Zolf'ali Hamzeh,
SAUDI ARABIA (3):
- Rizana Nafeek (female - 17)
- Sultan Bin Sulayman Bin Muslim al-Muwallad (15)
- Issa bin Muhammad ‘Umar Muhammad (13) Chadian national
SUDAN (3):
- Abdelrhman Zakaria Mohamed (male - 16)
- Ahmed Abdullah Suleiman (male - 16)
- Al-Tayeb Abdel Aziz (male - 16)
YEMEN (1):
- Hafez Ibrahim (male - 16)
[edit] Recorded Child Executions in 2007 and 2008:
IRAN (9)
- Makwan Moloudzadeh Male-17 (executed on December 5, 2007)
- Mohammad Mousavi, Male-16 (Mohammad is listed on SCE petition but he was executed on April 22, 2007)
- Saeed Kamberzai, Male-17 (executed on May 28, 2007)
- Babak Rahimi, Male-17 (executed on October 17, 2007)
- Hossein Gharabaghloo, Male-16 (executed on October 17, 2007)
- 2 Afghan Boys executed in Iran (reported by BBC and Afghanistan Independent human rights commission)
- Mohammad Reza Turk (executed on November 15, 2007)
- Javad Shojaee (executed on February 26, 2008)
SAUDI ARABIA (1)
- Dhahian Rakan al-Sibai'i Male-15 (executed on July 21, 2007)
[edit] Supporters
[10]:
- Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Co-founder (President), Miss World Canada 2003, artist and human rights advocate
- David Etebari, Co-founder (Vice President), Campaign Director, human rights advocate
- Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Nobel Prize Laureate 2003, Lawyer and human rights advocate
- Irshad Manji Muslim author activist
- Mina Ahadi, Head of the International Committee Against Executions
- Mehrangiz Kar Writer, Human Rights Advocate
- Mohammad Mostafaei, Attorney for Nazanin Fatehi and Reza Alinejad
- Nasrin Sotoudeh, Attorney for Sina Paymard and Soghra Najafpour
- Shadi Sadr, Attorney for Nazanin Fatehi and woman right activist
- Abdolsamad Khoramshahi, Attorney for Delara Darabi
- Fatemeh Haghighatjou, Iranian former Member of Parliament, Human Rights advocate
- Trita Parsi, President of the National Iranian American Council, Author
- Maz Jobrani, Actor - Comedian
- Dariush Kadivar, Iranian journalist, Film Historian, Writer
- Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, Former political prisoner
- Nazanin Fatehi, Former minor on death row in Iran
- Ali Alinejad, Brother of Reza Alinejad: a minor on death row
- Ghazal Darabi, Sister of Delara Darabi: a minor on death row
- Save the Children Sweden
- Donna and Graham Greene, Australian Music Artists
- Tim Bowles, Director of Youth for Human Rights International
- James C. McIntosh, Founder: The National Youth Orchestra of Canada
- Tarek Fatah, Canada, Founder of Muslim Canadian Congress / activist
- Neda Shahidyazdani, USA Human Rights Activist
POLITICIANS AND MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENTS:
On February 27, 2007 more than 34 members of European Parliament signed a resolution to Stop Child Executions in Iran, [11]. Additionally, this is a list of world pliticians who have signed the Petition:
- Jason Kenney, Canada Secretary of State
- Belinda Stronach, Canada member of Parliament
- May Hansen, Norway Member of parliament
- Feleknas Uca, European Parliament member
- Francois Nicoullaud Former ambassador of France to Iran and author
- Jean-Marcel Cremona, secretary general of the Lebertarian party of France
- Peter Hulme Cross, member of the City of London Assembly
- David Kilgour Former Canadian Secretary of State (Africa and latin America)
- 102 of the 349 Members of the Swedish Parliament
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- SCE Campaign News and Update Blog
- "A Prisoner of Colors" Documentary made by SCE campaign about Delara Darabi facing execution in Iran
- Video Collage about the Campaign
- Execution of a teenage girl MUSIC VIDEO
- Letter of Leader of Australian Democrats to Iranian Government
- Letter of support of Australian Government
- Amnesty International Report August 2006
- Amnesty international: Iran: Amnesty International call for end to death penalty for child offenders
- Amnesty International report
- Human Rights Watch Organization report
- Execution of a teenage girl BBC News
- Execution of a teenage girl BBC Documentary Video
