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| Salar Shadizadi |
Juvenile
offender Salar Shadizadi has been rescheduled for execution on Saturday 28
November.
Juvenile
offender Salar Shadizadi has been rescheduled for execution on Saturday 28
November, despite the prohibition on the use of the death penalty against
juvenile offenders under international law and standards, and his right to be
granted a re-trial under Iran’s own domestic law.
Salar
Shadizadi, now aged 24, was sentenced to death by Branch 11 of the Provincial
Criminal Court of Gilan Province in December 2007 for stabbing his childhood
friend. He was 15 years old at the time. The sentence was upheld by Branch 37
of the Supreme Court in March 20 08 and approved by the Head of the Judiciary
in May 2013. Since then, the authorities have twice scheduled the execution and
later postponed it. They have, however, failed to take the steps necessary to
ensure that Salar Shadizadi is granted a re-trial, even though the General Board
of Iran’s Supreme Court has ruled that all those on death row for crimes
committed when they were under 18 are entitled to receive a re-trial based on
the new juvenile sentencing provisions of Iran’s 2013 Islamic Penal Code.
Salar
Shadizadi was arrested in February 2007 and charged with the murder of a friend
when he was 15 years old. He was not granted access to a lawyer at the
investigative stage and was only allowed to retain a lawyer when his case was
sent to court for trial. He says that he was also tortured and otherwise
ill-treated during the investigative stage. In a will letter written from
prison in November 2015
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