Om to måneder skal Delara dø

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May the bad not kill the good,
Nor the good kill the bad
I am a poet, without any bias,
I say without doubt or hesitation
There are no good assassins.
(Pablo Neruda)

Iranske Delara Darabi risikerer å bli henrettet for et mord som ble begått da hun var 17 år gammel. Dødsdommen hennes skal ha blitt opprettholdt av iransk høyesterett, etter at hun har blitt dømt til døden to ganger allerede av lavere rettsinstanser.
Delara tilsto opprinnelig drapet, men trakk senere tilståelsen og sa at en venn hadde bedt henne om å ta skylden for mordet fordi de trodde at hun som mindreårig ikke ville risikere henrettelse.

Iran har henrettet minst 42 mindreårige forbrytere siden 1990, åtte av disse ble henrettet i 2008 og en i januar 2009.

(fra Amnesty Norge)

Henrettelsen skulle etter planen ha vært utført i begynnelsen av denne uken, men er utsatt i to måneder. Vi har med andre ord to måneder på oss til å øve globalt press på iranske myndigheter, om vi får mange nok med oss.
Og det hjelper! Utsettelsen er i seg selv resultat av internasjonalt press.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
(Montesquieu)

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* Kopier denne bloggposten og send utfordringen videre (endre gjerne teksten)
* Gå til denne siden og signér Amnestys kampanje elektronisk
* Kopier teksten under, som kan:
- mailes til shahroudi@dadgostary-tehran.ir eller info@dadiran.ir
- fakses til + 98 21 3390 4986

Head of the Judiciary
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Howzeh Riyasat-e Qoveh Qazaiyeh (Office of the Head of the Judiciary)
Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave., south of Serah-e Jomhouri
Tehran 1316814737, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: In the subject line write: FAO Ayatollah Shahroudi
Salutation: Your Excellency

Your Excellency

I am expressing my concern that the juvenile offender Delara Darabi is in imminent danger of being executed for a murder that was committed when she was 17 years old.

I am also concerned that reports say that Delara Darabi confessed to the murder in order to defend her co-accused.

I urge that the planned execution of Delara Darabi is halted, and that the death sentence imposed on her is commuted immediately. The Iranian authorities have by undertaking the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights committed to the law constituting that “sentence of death shall not be imposed for crimes committed by persons below eighteen years of age.”

Furthermore, I call on the Iranian authorities to implement the recommendations of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, which called on Iran in January 2005 to “immediately suspend the execution of all death penalties imposed on persons for having committed a crime before the age of 18, and to abolish the death penalty as a sentence imposed on persons for having committed crimes before the age of 18, as required by article 37 of the Convention”.

I acknowledge that governments have a responsibility to bring to justice those suspected of criminal offences such as murder, but I unconditionally oppose to the death penalty. It is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment and violation to the right to life.

Yours sincerely

Jeg ble oppfordret til å blogge om dette av Hjorthen, og håper at riktig mange av dere som leser om Delara velger å bringe budskapet videre. Via blogg, Twitter, Facebook eller andre kanaler. Du er herved oppfordret.
Ja, DU, som bor her!

One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
(Oscar Wilde)