Help Amnesty stop child executions

It’s really very simple. Sentencing a child to death is wrong, and has no place in 21st century justice anywhere in the world.

It was wrong to kill Delara Darabi on May 1 this year. The day before the young Iranian woman was strung up by a rope around her neck, the painter and poet reportedly told her mother, “If I come out of prison, I want to continue my education. One of the judges promised that I would be pardoned…Mother, I am innocent.”

Despite executing more children than any other country, Iran is one of 193 nations to have legally ratified the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, which expressly forbids capital punishment for offenders below eighteen years of age.

For Delara and for every child’s human rights sign Amnesty’s petition to help stop these atrocities.

Every voice, every name, counts.

Click here to sign the petition.