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Supporters say Hussain was 14 when he was sentenced to death for the murder of a seven-year-old, after a confession he said was obtained by torture.

The whereabouts of Saman Naseem, 21, who was sentenced to death in April 2013 for alleged armed activities against the Revolutionary Guards when he was 17 years old, was unknown for five months. Amnesty International has confirmed his location, alongside news that the Supreme Court has granted him a full retrail. 

Read the letter CRIN, together with other human rights organisations, sent concerning two young men sentenced to death for offences committed while children. 

Shafqat Hussain is expected to be hanged on Tuesday for an offence he 'confessed' to committing after nine days of torture.  

Hamid Ahmadi was convicted of fatally stabbing a man during a group fight that took place when he was 16 years old. 

After the first execution has been suspended due to internationl pressure, Shafqat Hussain has now been handed another execution warrent.

Despite the international appeals to halt the execution, Saman Naseem was hanged on Thursday. He was arrested in 2011 at the age of 17 years.

Shafqat Hussain is among a group of prisoners in Pakistan facing imminent execution.

Saman Naseem was 17 years old at the time of his alleged offence. He says he has been tortured in detention and forced to “confess”.

The Child Rights International Network (CRIN) has become aware of a statement made by Mahmoud al-Badawi, Chairman of the...

California Governor signs a bill that could prevent hundreds of young offenders from enduring rape, assault, and gang life in prison.

UN officials declare the continuing application of capital punishment to be a “primitive” practice which has no place in the 21st century.

Human rights group in Bahrain expresses grave concern over the ongoing targeting and prosecution of children.

Inquiry finds that the civil rights of male teenagers were violated and that there was no protection given to the boys from the rampant use of unnecessary and excessive force by correction officers.

Amnesty International has urged Iran to halt the execution of a young man who was a child at the time of his alleged crime.

UN chief expresses concern about legislation in 14 countries that permits the death penalty for children.

Navi Pillay expresses concern about large number of executions since beginning of 2014, and calls on Iran's authorities to halt the imminent execution of a juvenile offender.

Human Rights Watch calls for a halt to the execution of a woman convicted of killing her husband when she was 17. 

Sixteen-year-old charged with murder becomes first minor accused of capital offence since law's reintroduction.

Israeli security forces allegedly shot and killed the two Palestinian teenagers taking part in a demonstration.

US Attorney-General, Eric Holder, says placing children in solitary confinement "can be dangerous, and a serious impediment to the ability of juveniles to succeed once released."

UN voices deep concern about a new regulation that effectively overturns a 60-year moratorium on the use of capital punishment and allows for children as young as seven to be sentenced to death for certain crimes.

Despite the UN voicing "deep concern" about the planned changes, country will introduce law on 1 May, with proposed punishments including the severing of limbs for theft.  

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Human rights group says hanging of 16-year-old comes just days after execution of three other juveniles.  

Police in Lahore province charge baby with planning a murder, threatening police and interfering with state affairs.

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia has become the 36th State to ban all forms of corporal punishment of children in all settings, including the home. 

Ethopian teenager says she was raped by seven men in August 2013, and now faces possible sentence of death by stoning.

Death penalty gets suspended in Washington by the state governor, in a move to engage officials to "join a growing national conversation about capital punishment."

Three in four Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank last year endured physical violence during arrest and interrogation, according to Defence for Children International Palestine research.

New juvenile crime laws in the state of Queensland are described as violations of Australia's human rights obligations, leading to calls for UN intervention.