Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee
, 30, has spent more than 12 years on death row and will be executed 'next week'
As a child he was forced to ‘confess’ to murder after being beaten, kicked, punched and whipped
‘The Iranian authorities are yet again waging an abhorrent assault on children’s rights and making an absolute mockery of juvenile justice’ - Diana Eltahawy
Responding to the Iranian authorities’ plans to execute 30-year-old Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee for a crime that took place when he was 16 years old - and following a conviction based on “confessions” extracted under torture - Diana Eltahawy, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, said: