Analysis by PMOI/MEK
Iran, May 3, 2019 – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has condemned the recent execution of two 17-year-old boys in Iran by the mullahs’ regime, describing this atrocity a "deplorable" act.
Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat were executed on April 25 at the Adelabad prison in Shiraz, the capital of the southern Fars Province in south-central Iran. Regime authorities apprehended the two at the age of 15. International rights groups criticized the mullahs’ regime and described the process as an unfair trial.
"I am appalled," Bachelet said in a statement issued by her office on May 3, urging the mullahs’ regime in Tehran to immediately bring an end to all executions of people accused of committing crimes while considered being children or juveniles.
"The prohibition of executions of child offenders is absolute under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and under the Convention on the Rights of the Child," she said.
The regime in Iran is a party to both those treaties.
The cases of Sohrabifar and Sedaghat were particularly astonishing and deplorable since "both boys were reportedly subjected to ill-treatment and a flawed legal process," Bachelet said.
Amnesty International has recorded 97 executions of people under the age of 18 in Iran between 1990 and 2018. The mullahs’ regime ruling Iran has been condemned over 65 times at the United Nations for its decades of gross human rights violations.
