From Cradle to Coffin
From Cradle to Coffin: A Report on Child Executions in Iran First published in 2009 by The Foreign Policy Centre Suite 14, Second Floor 23–28 Penn Street London, N1 5DL United Kingdom Website: www.fpc.org.uk © Foreign Policy Centre 2009 All rights reserved ISBN-13 978-1-905833-16-0 ISBN-10 1-905833-16-4 Acknowledgments Stop Child Executions and Foreign Policy Center are indebted to a number of people for their help and support with this report. First to SCE President and co-founder Nazanin Afshin-Jam, and Tahirih Danesh, FPC Senior Research Associate, for their tireless work researching and drafting this report. They would particularly like to thank key contributor from SCE, co-founder David Etebari, for his years of writing, research and analysis that have helped this report. They would also like to thank SCE senior board member and legal counsel D.W. Duke and SCE senior volunteers Kristian Hvesser and Donna Greene for their valuable contributions over several years. Honourable mention and thanks to Christian Salazar Volkmann, former head of UNICEF in Iran, whose preface added considerable weight to the findings of the report as well as Payam Beheshti and Clifford Chance for their contribution with legal research and analysis. They would particularly like to acknowledge and thank Mohammad Mostafaei and other lawyers in Iran who have selflessly represented dozens of minors on death row and have provided important news and articles, including Nasrin Sotoudeh, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, Shadi Sadr, Shirin Ebadi and the Centre for Human Rights Defenders. SCE and FPC would also like to thank the following activists for their invaluable contributions to the cause: Emadeddine Baghi, Asieh Amini, Mitra Khalatbari, Mina Ahadi, Drewery Dyke,ClarissaBencomo,AubreyHarris,AnneHarris,Rothna Begum, Sima Watling, Kate Willingham, Zahra Haghighatjoo and the many more supporters, colleagues and victims in Iran, who for reasons of security must remain unnamed.
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