18 December 2020, 16:20 UTC
Responding to the Iranian authoritiesâ plans to execute a 30-year-old man, Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee, for a crime that took place when he was 16 years old and following a conviction based on âconfessionsâ extracted under torture, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, Diana Eltahawy, said:Â
âAfter more than 12 years on death row, Mohammad Hassan Rezaiee was transferred to solitary confinement in Lakan Prison in Rasht on Thursday, and his family was told that his execution would be carried out âin a weekâ. The Iranian authorities are yet again waging an abhorrent assault on childrenâs rights and making an absolute mockery of juvenile justice.â¯Â