Stop child executions! Ending the death penalty for child offenders

Amnesty International
Execution of child offenders: summary of cases
Press release, 21/01/2004 IRAN
Mehrdad Yousefi -- executed in 2001
Amnesty International has recorded seven executions of child offenders in Iran since 1990. Most of these reports have been based on reports in the Iranian news media.
Most recently, the official news agency IRNA reported from the city of Ilam on 29 May 2001 that Mehrdad Yousefi, aged 18, had been hanged for a crime committed two years earlier.
A bill to raise the minimum age to 18 has been approved by the judiciary and was reportedly due to be introduced in parliament in late 2003.