Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. (Geneva, July 8, 2008) _ 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. Iran executed 16-year-old Mohammad Hassanzadeh, an Iranian Kurd on June 10, 2008 for a crime committed when he was 14. Four other juvenile offenders are at risk of execution between July 11 and July 25. The organizations called on the head of Iran's judiciary to suspend these four...
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