Amnesty International: Iranian Juvenile Offender faces death

Amnesty International reported on March 2^nd that an Iranian juvenile offender Amir Amrollahi has been sentenced to death for the second time, after a retrial and following a decade in prison. Amir was 16 years old at the time of the crime in November 2005,

Beside Amir Amrollahi, at least seven other juvenile offenders – Salar Shadizadi, Hamid Ahmadi, Sajad Sanjari, Siavash Mahmoudi, Himan Uraminejad, Amanj Veisee, and Fatemeh Salbehi –have been sentenced to death in Iran.

Fatemeh Salbehi, who was 17 years old at the time of the commission of the crime, was executed in October 2015.

Amnesty International has recorded at least 73 executions of juvenile offenders between 2005 and 2015. According to the UN at least 160 juvenile offenders are now on death row.