Inhumane Islamic regime hangs a teenage boy for crime committed as child

Iran Press News: The regime-run news agency, MEHR, reported that the Islamic regime’s judiciary publicly hanged a teenage boy, only known as Vaheed, on Wednesday, September 20th, for a murder he had allegely committed as a child. Vaheed had recently turned 18.

The execution of another teenager, also identified as Sina, was suspended for two months. Sina who also recently turned 18 was accused of murdering a relative when he was a child. Sina’s relatives, called for the temporary suspention of the exeuction while Sina literally stood with the noose around his neck,.

Under the Islamic republic’s legal statute, boys above the age of fifteen are considered adults and could be convicted of capital crimes. Under increasing international pressure for violations of the children’s rights, the inhumane Islamic regime keeps convicted children in juvenile prisons and issues court verdicts only after they turn 18 so as to carry out sentences that would have be handed out if the defendants were adults.