Amnesty International: Iran tops list of countries in the executions of minors

Amnesty International confirmed in a report that 160 minors are currently held in Iranian prisons awaiting their verdicts, in the meantime, Tehran was found guilty of executing 73 minors within the last 10 years.

The organization emphasized in a report released Tuesday night that Iran “is violating the UN convention on child rights”. 

It has added that Iran is the most country which executes its defendants who were convicted of committing crimes as minors, with 73 cases registered concerning minors between 2005 and 2015 – in which include at least 4 during the previous year.

Also that Tehran is accused of using torture and maltreatment to force minors to confess.

The report argued the hardship of attaining such information in Iran, pointing out that the statistics are much higher in reality.

It continued by explaining that most of the conducted executions were those convicted of crimes of murder, rape, drugs and violations concerning what to be "the security of the nation".