Iran country specialist, Amnesty International USA
- Last week Amnesty International issued a major report on juvenile
executions in Iran called Growing up on death row: The Death Penalty
and Juvenile Offenders in Iran. The report is attached and is also
here:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/
sites/default/files/growing_ up_on_death_row_-_the_death_ penalty_and_juvenile_ offenders_in_iran_final.pdf - The press release to accompany the report can be found at:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/
latest/news/2016/01/irans- hypocrisy-exposed-as-scores- of-juvenile-offenders- condemned-to-gallows/ - Please take action by going to the online petition set up by Amnesty
International Australia:
http://www.amnesty.org.au/
action/action/41158/ - You can also let Iranian officials know what you think about their
continued executions of juvenile offenders by writing to the
addresses given at the end of this message below. Here is a sample
letter:
http://www.amnestyusa.org/
pdfs/2016_SampleLetter_ IranJudiciary.pdf - Please also note that intrepid activists from Amnesty International
group 48 in Portland Oregon created a change.org petition for
imprisoned Iranian physicist Omid Kokabee:
https://www.change.org/p/iran-
s-supreme-leader-ayatollah- seyyed-ali-khameneh-ei-free- the-brilliant-young-iranian- physicist
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