 According to Human Rights Watch, this was despite the fact that his accusers had recanted their statements and Mouladzadeh had repudiated his confession as being coerced by the police, and despite the fact that the head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Shahrudi, had ordered a unit of the Judiciary to investigate the case and refer it back to the Penal Court of Kermanshah, before any final decision on an execution.A 2004 case, that gained international attention was the hanging of 16-year-old schoolgirl Atefah Sahaaleh.16 February 2018, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein asked Iran to halt all executions of people sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were under eighteen.