Spare Four Youths from Execution and immediately enforce international prohibition on the death penalty for juvenile offenders

Today 24 international and regional human rights organizations called on Iranian authorities to spare four youths facing execution and to stop imposing the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile offenders - persons who commit crimes while under the age of 18, and to uphold their international obligation to enforce the absolute prohibition on the death penalty in such cases - Iran / United Nations, Death Penalty, une, crc

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Source: fidh.org

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