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Iran: Imminent execution for Kurdish teen
offender
23.6.2008
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June
23, 2008
Sanandaj (Sina), Iranian Kurdistan, — A young
man who allegedly committed a crime when he was 15
years old is due to be executed in Iran in the next
few days.
Salah Ghasseh, 18, will be the second ethnic Kurd
youth to be hanged in the past six months at the
Sanandaj prison in the area known as Iranian
Kurdistan.
Last December, Makwan Moloudzadeh, also an ethnic
Kurd,www.ekurd.net
was arrested at age 17
for allegedly having homosexual relations four years
earlier. He was hanged last December at the age of
21.
Iran has ratified international treaties including
the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the
Child, which forbids capital punishment for underage
youth who commit crimes.
In Iran young men are considered to be adults from
the age of 14 and young women from the age of eight
and a half, and therefore responsible for any crimes
that they commit.
There are now 124 prisoners in death row who
committed crimes when they were under 18 years of
age, say human rights groups.
Amnesty International said in its latest report,
that at least 335 people were executed in Iran in
2007, seven of them children.
It said sentences of flogging and amputation
continued to be implemented in Iran, and torture and
ill-treatment were widespread in prisons and
detention centres.
Iran has one of the highest rates of capital
punishment in the world. The Islamic government
insists that it is a deterrence for crime.
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Iranian Kurdistan
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Iranian Kurdistan (Kurdish: Kurdistana Îranę or
Kurdistana Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) or Rojhilatę
Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name
for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has
borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes the
greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority of the population of this
region with an estimated population of 4 million.
The region is the eastern part of the greater
cultural-geographical area called Kurdistan.
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members of PEJAK are women, many of them still in
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graduate from the University of Tehran. This is due
primarily to the fact that PEJAK is strongly
supportive of women's rights. PEJAK believes that
women must have a strong role in government and must
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