Nineteen-year-old Arash Rahmanipour was executed in Iran on January 28 after being convicted of waging war against God and attempting to overthrow the Iranian regime. The charges against Rahmanipour related to his alleged role in Iran’s postelection unrest. His father, Davoud Rahmanipour, told Radio Farda broadcaster Baktash Khamsehpour about what he called an unjust sentence against his son.

Radio Farda: Did you try to do anything to prevent the execution of your son?

Rahmanipour: The sentence was very unjust. I tried to refer to Islam and Islamic kindness and told his judge that my son didn’t do anything, he didn’t spill anybody’s blood and didn’t use a bomb, he didn’t have weapons. They said he was planning to do this and that, but he didn’t even know how the next day was going to look. Even if we accept that he intended to commit [a crime], you can’t [punish] that person before he has committed a crime.

I wrote to the judge that my son hasn’t done anything, and that you can’t sentence him based on his childish thoughts. The judge didn’t even talk to my son for two minutes, he just talked to him for about a minute and a half. I was there. He just asked him how much his father makes, and how many siblings he has.

There was another court session in which Arash made some confessions, and it’s not clear which part was true or whether it was dictated to him and was not true. Leave it to the future and history and awakening consciences.