UN rights chief 'appalled' by execution of two minors in Iran

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The UN human rights chief has voiced outrage at Iran's execution of two 17-year-old boys charged with rape and robbery, stressing that executing children is banned under international law

The UN human rights chief voiced outrage on Friday at Iran's execution of two 17-year-old boys charged with rape and robbery, stressing that executing children is banned under international law.

"I am appalled," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said in a statement, urging Tehran to immediately halt all executions of people accused of committing crimes while children.

 

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Verbal diarrhoea. Didn't do much good did it. Yours is a spent force. Time to close it down.

Perhaps they should have done what America does. Hold them on death row for 17 years before executing them at age 34. Yeah that's much better 🤦🏽‍♀️

And yet the murder of hundreds of thousands of children in Yemen at the hands of the Saudi kingdom and the U.S empire goes completely unreported by the bias western fake news mainstream media. It's no secret the U.S empire has had Iran in it's sights for quite some time. PNAC

. The UN needs to gets its own house in order before saying anything.

So the UN virtue signaled impotently. Again. What a failed joke of an organisation the UN is.

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