Nazanin Afshin Jam: loss for words
I am at a loss for words. My heart is empty and my tears are flowing.
I have just finished reading the details by attorney Mohammad Mostafaei of the minutes leading up to Delara’s execution. It is just too painful http://scenews.blog.com/4885252/
Delara, I have known you for almost three years. We tried our best to keep you alive. We informed and had the High Commission on Human Rights at the UN, the European Union and Parliaments worldwide act on your behalf. We spread awareness through the media, to human rights groups worldwide. We kept in touch with your family and your lawyers. We conducted speeches and rallies worldwide. We sent you art supplies in prison and letters from supporters to keep your spirits high. We tried our best to get in touch with the family of the deceased and convince them to understand the severity of taking a young life away. We tried Delara. We tried but we failed.
You are no longer with us in body, but your presence will live on forever, in the hearts of all the volunteers at Stop Child Executions, all the lawyers and human rights defenders fighting for justice, and millions of supporters around the world fighting for your life.
I have just finished reading the details by attorney Mohammad Mostafaei of the minutes leading up to Delara’s execution. It is just too painful http://scenews.blog.com/4885252/
Delara, I have known you for almost three years. We tried our best to keep you alive. We informed and had the High Commission on Human Rights at the UN, the European Union and Parliaments worldwide act on your behalf. We spread awareness through the media, to human rights groups worldwide. We kept in touch with your family and your lawyers. We conducted speeches and rallies worldwide. We sent you art supplies in prison and letters from supporters to keep your spirits high. We tried our best to get in touch with the family of the deceased and convince them to understand the severity of taking a young life away. We tried Delara. We tried but we failed.
You are no longer with us in body, but your presence will live on forever, in the hearts of all the volunteers at Stop Child Executions, all the lawyers and human rights defenders fighting for justice, and millions of supporters around the world fighting for your life.
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Authorities Failed to Notify Delara Darabi’s Lawyer or Family
May 1, 2009
May 1, 2009
(New York) - Iran secretly hanged a juvenile offender early today despite a flawed trial, a stay of execution and an unequivocal international ban on such executions, Human Rights Watch said. Delara Darabi, 22, was executed for a killing that she was alleged to have committed when she was 17 years old.
The execution was carried out at Rasht Central Prison despite a two-month stay of execution in the case issued on April 19, 2009, by the head of the Judiciary. This is the second known execution of a juvenile offender in Iran this year. Iran leads all countries of the world in executing juvenile offenders.
"It appears that Iran's head of Judiciary has no ability to control even his own judges," said Zama Coursen-Neff, deputy director of the children's rights division at Human Rights Watch. "This is an outrageous violation of Iranian as well as international human rights law, and a callous affront to basic human dignity."
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - an international treaty to which Iran is a party - clearly bans the execution of offenders who committed a crime when under the age of 18. Since January 2005, only four other countries are known to have executed juvenile offenders: Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen.
Neither Darabi's lawyer nor her family were informed prior to the execution, despite the fact that Iranian law requires that authorities inform a prisoner's lawyer at least 48 hours ahead of an execution.
The Iranian human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who has been a leading advocate in Iran against imposing the death penalty on juvenile offenders, told Human Rights Watch that he spoke with Darabi's parents after her execution. They had paid a routine visit to her in prison on Thursday, April 30. She told them at that time that a judicial official had informed her that an appeal would be granted in order for new evidence to be heard in her case.
The execution was carried out at Rasht Central Prison despite a two-month stay of execution in the case issued on April 19, 2009, by the head of the Judiciary. This is the second known execution of a juvenile offender in Iran this year. Iran leads all countries of the world in executing juvenile offenders.
"It appears that Iran's head of Judiciary has no ability to control even his own judges," said Zama Coursen-Neff, deputy director of the children's rights division at Human Rights Watch. "This is an outrageous violation of Iranian as well as international human rights law, and a callous affront to basic human dignity."
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - an international treaty to which Iran is a party - clearly bans the execution of offenders who committed a crime when under the age of 18. Since January 2005, only four other countries are known to have executed juvenile offenders: Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen.
Neither Darabi's lawyer nor her family were informed prior to the execution, despite the fact that Iranian law requires that authorities inform a prisoner's lawyer at least 48 hours ahead of an execution.
The Iranian human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who has been a leading advocate in Iran against imposing the death penalty on juvenile offenders, told Human Rights Watch that he spoke with Darabi's parents after her execution. They had paid a routine visit to her in prison on Thursday, April 30. She told them at that time that a judicial official had informed her that an appeal would be granted in order for new evidence to be heard in her case.
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Inutile la mobilitazione delle associazioni internazionali per i diritti umani
Niente perdono, Delara giustiziata
La ragazza-pittrice condannata per un omicidio avvenuto quando aveva 17 anni è stata impiccata all'alba
Niente perdono, Delara giustiziata
La ragazza-pittrice condannata per un omicidio avvenuto quando aveva 17 anni è stata impiccata all'alba
ROMA - La condanna è stata eseguita. Delara Darabi, la p
ittrice di 23 anni condannata al patibolo per la complicità in un omicidio commesso nel 2003, quando aveva solo 17 anni, è stata giustiziata nella prigione di Rasht, in Iran. E' stata uccisa di mattina presto, di venerdì, giorno sacro per gli islamici. E senza che ne fosse data notizia al suo avvocato né alla sua famiglia, secondo quanto spiega Mohammad Mostafaei, un avvocato attivo nel campo dei diritti umani, citato dal sito di Iran Human Rights.
LE ULTIME DRAMMATICHE PAROLE - Mostafaei scrive in una lettera: «La madre di Delara ha incontrato la figlia in prigione appena ieri. La ragazza è apparsa di buon umore, ma questa mattina Delara ha telefonato a sua madre: "Stanno per impiccarmi adesso, per favore aiutatemi, ditegli di non farlo!". Improvvisamente qualcuno ha strappato la cornetta a Delara e ha detto a sua madre: "Uccideremo tua figlia ora, non c’è niente che tu possa fare per impedircelo"». Dunque la donna è stata impiccata nonostante un movimento di pressione internazionale che raccoglie attivisti per i diritti umani di varia provenienza avesse ottenuto un rinvio dell'impiccagione. Si era parlato di una dilazione di due mesi, rispetto alla data del 20 aprile nella quale era stata fissata inizialmente l'esecuzione. Invece il boia ha atteso solamente dieci giorni, poi ha calato il cappio.
ittrice di 23 anni condannata al patibolo per la complicità in un omicidio commesso nel 2003, quando aveva solo 17 anni, è stata giustiziata nella prigione di Rasht, in Iran. E' stata uccisa di mattina presto, di venerdì, giorno sacro per gli islamici. E senza che ne fosse data notizia al suo avvocato né alla sua famiglia, secondo quanto spiega Mohammad Mostafaei, un avvocato attivo nel campo dei diritti umani, citato dal sito di Iran Human Rights.LE ULTIME DRAMMATICHE PAROLE - Mostafaei scrive in una lettera: «La madre di Delara ha incontrato la figlia in prigione appena ieri. La ragazza è apparsa di buon umore, ma questa mattina Delara ha telefonato a sua madre: "Stanno per impiccarmi adesso, per favore aiutatemi, ditegli di non farlo!". Improvvisamente qualcuno ha strappato la cornetta a Delara e ha detto a sua madre: "Uccideremo tua figlia ora, non c’è niente che tu possa fare per impedircelo"». Dunque la donna è stata impiccata nonostante un movimento di pressione internazionale che raccoglie attivisti per i diritti umani di varia provenienza avesse ottenuto un rinvio dell'impiccagione. Si era parlato di una dilazione di due mesi, rispetto alla data del 20 aprile nella quale era stata fissata inizialmente l'esecuzione. Invece il boia ha atteso solamente dieci giorni, poi ha calato il cappio.
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