mental development”, corporal punishment cannot be applied and the offender will either be detained or charged with a fine. However, for Article 91 to be taken into consideration and be applied, it is required that the juvenile offender themselves claims the right to a retrial allowed by the mentioned article. The offenders below eighteen and their families are often unaware of this possibility and unable to afford a lawyer who can inform them about their rights, very few of them apply for a retrial. Corporal punishment in the home According to the Iranian Civil Code, “a child must obey its parents and must respect them regardless of their age” and in case of disobedience or for educational purposes, Iranian law allows corporal punishment in the home as long as the perpetrator is the guardian of the child. According to the Iranian Civil Code, “parents are entitled to punish their children, but they must not abuse this right by punishing their children beyond the limits of correction”. Furthermore, the Islamic Penal Code states that “the acts committed by parents and legal guardians of minors and insane people to chastise or protect them provided that such actions are exercised within the customary limits, and religious limits for chastisement and protection”. Execution of juvenile offenders The death penalty is currently in use in Iran, and the percentage of executions has increased by 300% from 2008 to 2015. Iran also detains the worldly record for the country executing the biggest number of juvenile offenders. The percentage of executions of minors substantially increased and later dropped in 2015. However, at the beginning of 2016, 160 offenders were on death row in Iran for crimes that they had committed before they had turned 18. In 2016, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child strongly urged Iran to end the execution of children and persons who committed a crime while under the age of 18. On 18 October 2017, various United Nations human rights experts stated that “Iran was continuing to execute juvenile offenders.” The UN experts deplored the continued child executions in Iran. The UN experts said, “Iran should immediately and unconditionally abolish the sentencing of children to death, and engage in a comprehensive process of commutation of all death sentences issued against children, in line with juvenile justice standards.” Iran has reportedly executed at least four juvenile offenders from January to October 2017,