Yemen executes second child this year
Al-Akhbar: Chairperson of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child Wednesday expressed ‘deep dismay’ concerning the execution of another child in Yemen.
“According to the information we have received, Hind Al-Barti was around 15 years old at the time of the offense,” the Chairperson Jean Zermatten said.
Two children under 18 years of age were executed in 2012, and fourteen juveniles had been executed between 2006 and 2010.
Twenty-one more children have been convicted and sentenced to death, one of which is 13 years old, according to the UN committee press release.
“According to the information transmitted to us, Waleed Hussein Haikal and Mohammad Abduh Qasim al-Taweel (both aged 15 at the time of the commission of the offenSe) and Mohammad Taher Samoum in Ibb (aged 13) have had their death sentences confirmed by the Supreme Court,” the chairperson said.
“We urgently appeal to the Government of Yemen to immediately stop the executions of juvenile offenders and to take effective measures to remove juvenile prisoners from death row.”
Yemen had assured the committee in 2005 that laws against the death penalty, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of children under the age of 18, had been incorporated into the penal code.
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