Iran flogs, executes two teen rapists

Two teens, both age 17, were convicted rapists when they were 15-years-old and spent two years in an Iranian prison.

Cousins Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat, were flogged then executed in Adelabad prison on April 25. Amnesty International is claiming the pair endured “unfair trials” that doomed them.

Amnesty said the pair were both brutally beaten while in police detention and were barred from speaking with their lawyer.

Making matters worse, the two teens, their families and their lawyers had no idea they would be executed until the deed was done, but the day prior to their beatings and murders, their families were allowed to visit them and were given no explanation as to why.

International human rights laws typically frown on executing anyone under the age of 18 at the time crimes were committed. And as much as rape is repugnant and should call for the death penalty, the brains of these kids weren't even fully developed when they committed the atrocity.

“The Iranian authorities have once again proved that they are sickeningly prepared to put children to death, in flagrant disregard of international law,” Amnesty International spokesman Philip Luther told the Daily Mail.

“It seems they cruelly kept these two boys in the dark about their death sentences for two years, flogged them in the final moments of their lives and then carried out their executions in secret.”

Luther added: “We have identified a trend in which Iran’s authorities are carrying out executions of juvenile offenders in secret and without giving advance notice to the families, seemingly in a deliberate attempt to avoid global outrage.”

Iran has executed at least 97 people who were under the age of 18 at the time of their crimes between 1990 and 2018, Amnesty said.

Obviously, the Iranians involved in these executions have a sick and sadistic character and are no better than the people they execute.





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