Hassan Afshar, a 19-year-old who was 17 when he was arrested and convicted of rape, was executed last month, Zeid said.
UN rights boss says executions in Iran were "grave injustice"
The hanging of up to 20 people in Iran this week followed serious doubts about the fairness of their trials and respect for due process, leading to a "grave injustice" being committed, the United Nations' top human rights official said on Friday.
Iran
executed up to 20 Kurdish Islamists on Tuesday who were suspected of
attacks on security forces, drawing condemnation from rights groups
which said the convictions may have been based on forced confessions.
They
were convicted of killing two Sunni Muslim clerics, several police and
wildlife guards, abducting a number of people and carrying out armed
robbery and bombings in western Iran, state news agency IRNA said.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said the men had been executed for "purported terrorism-related offences" and that reports suggested most if not all were from a minority group - Sunnis from the Kurdish community.
"The
application of overly broad and vague criminal charges, coupled with a
disdain for the rights of the accused to due process and a fair trial
have in these cases led to a grave injustice," Zeid said in a statement.
Shahram
Ahmadi, one of those hanged, was alleged to have been beaten and
coerced into signing a blank piece of paper on which his false
confession was recorded, Zeid said.
Iran is one of
the world's top executioners, international rights groups say. Human
Rights Watch said this week that Iran had executed at least 230 people
this year.
Hassan Afshar, a 19-year-old who was 17 when he was arrested and convicted of rape, was executed last month, Zeid said.
"The
execution of juvenile offenders is particularly abhorrent and I urge
Iran to respect the strict prohibition under international human rights
law against this practice," he said.
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