Three Isfahani teenagers who had all committed murder in street fighting while under the age of ‎‎18, are awaiting their execution sentences in Isfahan's central prison. ‎

Following the execution of Javad Shojaei, which took place last week in Isfahan and which was ‎reported on Rooz, three other Isfahani teenagers by the names of Seyyed Reza Hejazi, Ahmad ‎Mortazavian, and Iman Hashemi are on Isfahan's death row. This is in addition to another ‎teenager who was executed more than two months ago in Isfahan, and whose death was not ‎widely reported in the press. ‎

Mohammad Mostafaei, who represents the three teenagers on the death row, says, "judges in ‎these cases have not taken the ages of my clients into account. However, my client should have ‎been tried in the juvenile court and not the criminal court." ‎

Mohammad Mostafaei notes that the Islamic penal code does not specify any age as the legal ‎age. He adds that, according to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which Iran is a ‎signatory, people under the age of 18 are considered "children." On this basis, Mostafaei ‎dismisses the death sentences against his clients and calls for their reversal. ‎

Mostafaei adds, "my clients' arrested development and the fact that all murders took place ‎accidentally are other factors that undermine the validity of the judgment. These issues must all ‎be considered and examined in depth." ‎