Iran executed a man arrested for murder when he was 17

Iran on Wednesday executed a 25-year-old man who was only 17 when he was arrested for the murder of his girlfriend, judicial sources reported.

The execution of Arman Abdolali it was carried out despite calls from human rights organizations such as Amnesty International to suspend it.

The maximum sentence was applied in the Rajai Shahr prison, near Tehran, under the “qesas”, the talion or eye for an eye law, requested by the victim’s family, announced Mizan Online, the website. of the Iranian judicial authority.

Amnesty called on Iran on October 11 to stay the execution of this man accused of the murder of his 19-year-old girlfriend, because his trial had been “clearly unfair”.

According to judicial sources, the two families knew each other and the young people were going to get married, but They got into a fight when she announced that she wanted to leave the country.

The victim’s mother said she was willing to forgive Arman if he said where her daughter’s body was.

The defendant was sentenced to the death penalty in 2020 when the court held him responsible for his actions. Several Iranian artists shared on social networks a message addressed to the victim’s family in which they asked him to forgive the convicted person so that the death penalty would not be applied.

His execution was postponed several times thanks to international pressure, according to Amnesty.

In 2020, 246 people were executed in Iran, according to this organization. Iran is often singled out by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and by NGOs for these executions of people convicted of crimes committed while they were still minors, something that violates the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by Tehran.

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