The Iranian authorities are shamelessly encouraging children as young as 12 to join an IRGC run military campaign, putting them in grave danger and violating international law, which prohibits the recruitment and use of children in the military.
Child soldier recruitment is a war crime.
Iranian authorities must immediately stop their criminal assault on children’s rights and prohibit the recruitment of anyone under 18 by the armed forces.
In addition, today Iranian authorities have arbitrarily executed teenage protester Amirhossein Hatami.
The execution of five protesters and dissidents in three days this week is extremely alarming and once again exposes Iran's judiciary for what it is: a tool of repression sending individuals to the gallows to spread fear and exacting revenge on those demanding fundamental political change.
All war crimes must be investigated.
Those responsible must be held to account
ALT breaking: Iran\u2019s IRGC recruitment of child soldiers as young as 12 amounts to a war crime. This has happened in same week as teenage protestor is executed by authorities.