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Iran - drohende Todesstrafe für Ne'mat
His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei
The Office of the Supreme Leader
Shoahada Street
Qom
Islamic Republic of Iran
Copy to:
His Excellency Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Presidency
Palestine Avenue
Azerbaijan Intersection
Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Botschaft der Islamischen Republik Iran
Herrn Ebadollah Molaei Aghbash
Geschäftsträger a.i.
Podbielskiallee 65-67
14195 Berlin
May, 17th, 2006
Impending death penalty for Ne'mat
Your Excellency,
With this appeal I would like to express my concern that a 17-year-old boy known only as Ne'mat is facing execution in your country, as amnesty international informed me. I would like you to urge the authorities to commute his death sentence immediately.
Moreover I would like to remind the authorities in your country, that they are a state party to the ICCPR, which states that “sentence of death shall not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below eighteen years of age”. I think this fact is very important an should not be forgotten. That is also why I ask you for further information of Ne’mat’s trial.
Additionally I would like to point out that the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child called on Iran in January 2005 to “immediately suspend the execution of all death penalties imposed on persons for having committed a crime before the age of 18, and to abolish the death penalty as a sentence imposed on persons for having committed crimes before the age of 18, as required by article 37 of the Convention”.
Finally I would like to acknowlede that governments have a responsibility to bring to justice those suspected of criminal offences such as murder, but stating your unconditional opposition to the death penalty, as the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment and violation of the right to life.
Trusting in betterness of menkind,
Yours sincerely,