Hamid Ahmadi was first sentenced to death in August 2009 after Branch 11 of the Provincial Criminal Court of Gilan Province convicted him of murder. The Supreme Court initially overturned the verdict due to some doubts about the testimony of several key witnesses in November 2009, but ultimately upheld the verdict in November 2010.
Hamid Ahmadi’s trial was unfair as the court relied on confessions he made at the police station where he did not have access to a lawyer and his family. He was a minor at the time and therefore he was not likely to have been able to fully understand the potential consequences of his statements before the police. He also claims that the confessions were obtained under torture and other ill-treatment. No investigations are known to have been conducted into his allegations.
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