Child Offender Executed in Sabzevar
According to the Iranian Human Rights Society, on Friday the 24rd of November 2023. A Child Offender named Hamidreza Azari executed in Sabzevar prison.
He was 17 years and 3 months old and a few months ago in May 2023, arrested on charge of murder.
Hamidreza Azari accused of killing a young man in a conflict on May 11, 2023.
Confirming the death sentence of this prisoner done in the circumstances that only seven months passed since his arrest. The judicial branch quickly started this case and issued the death sentence of the child criminal Hamidreza Azari. And this also approved it by the Supreme Court.
Despite the ban on executions of offenders under the age of 18 in the Declaration of Human Rights, Iran’s rulers executed six juvenile offenders who committed crimes between the ages of 14 and 17.
While international conventions such as the rights of the child set the age of criminal punishment for both sexes to be 18, the Islamic Republic of Iran has set the age of criminal punishment for boys 15 and 9 for girls.
spending millions of dollars on providing the expenses of suppressing forces domestically
According to the former Minister of Education, there are more than 800,000 surviving children out of school in the country. This figure should be increased by more than 160,000 children who not admitted to elementary school. Thus, in less than five years, nearly one million children deprived of education.
This is while the government leaders annually spend millions of dollars on providing the expenses of suppressing forces domestically and interfering in the affairs of other countries. Expenses that one item is less than one percent of it is enough to equip all schools in Iran.
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