'Apparently, neither the victims nor their families were aware that the executions were going to take place.'
Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat were executed on April 25, after a trial that the UN rights office said appeared to have"seriously breached fundamental due process guarantees."
"The prohibition of executions of child offenders is absolute under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and under the Convention on the Rights of the Child," she said.Bachelet said the cases of Sohrabifar and Sedaghat were particularly deplorable since"both boys were reportedly subjected to ill-treatment and a flawed legal process.
The boys' families had brought the case to the Supreme Court, which overturned the lower court's sentence and ordered a retrial."Apparently, neither the victims nor their families were aware that the executions were going to take place," the rights office said.
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