TAKE ACTION:Execution of Zeinab Jalilian Imminent

from: mission free iran

URGENT: Female Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalilian has been moved to the enforcement section of the Islamic Republic’s detention facilities; her execution is deemed imminent.

Zeinab, 27, is from Maku, a city in the far northwest corner of Iran in province of West Azerbaijan.  She was arrested in May 2008 in Kermanshah and accused of ‘waging war against God’ (Mohareb) and belonging to the PKK (an outlawed political organization).

Her “trial,” in which she was denied legal defense, lasted about 5 minutes, reminiscent of the 1988 mass executions of thousands of political prisoners, for which there is now a demand to convene an international court to try the perpetrators.  Zeinab was sentenced to death in that sham trial and the sentence has been upheld. Originally imprisoned in Kermanshah prison, she was transferred to the detention center of the Ministry of Information in March 2010, and has now been moved to the “enforcement” section of the facility, signaling impending execution.

Here is 27-year old Zeinab Jalalian’s letter to the world, pleading for help:

Dear Human Rights Organisations:

My name is Ms Zeinab Jalalian. I am a 27-year-old Kurdish female political prisoner in prison in Iran. My death sentence was confirmed by the Iranian Supreme Court.

I am currently ill because of torture and I don’t have any lawyer to defend me. I want to tell you that my trial took only few minutes. The Court told me: “You are an enemy of God. You must be hanged very soon.” That was the sum of my entire court process. I asked the judge to give me permission to say good bye to my mother and family before my execution. He told me to “shut up” and rejected my request.

Zeinab Jalalian
26/11/2009

Source: Kurdish Women Haven

What can you do?

1. Send faxes to UN.
It seems that Zainab’s only chance is an urgent intervention of United Nations. Send faxes to Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for the Office of Human Rights and Ban Ki-Moon, the Secretary General of the United Nation. Sample letter and fax numbers HERE. You may add also a personal comment.


2. Add Zainab’s heartbeats to your website/blog.
You can add the above video to your site in a size of your choice. Copy and paste one of the codes HERE into your page using the html editor of your blog. The video will be added, will start automatically as your page loads and will loop continuously.


3. More possible destinations to send faxes:

Mr. Luíz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil. Has close relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. His fax number HERE

Ms.  Patricia Llombart Cussac, European Comission, Head of Gulf Countries Unit – Iran, Iraq, Yemen. Her fax numbers HERE

If you have more ideas for destinations with confirmed fax numbers, please add them here as comments.

Details, sample letters and addresses at Mission Free Iran site.

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UPDATE: According to HRANA the execution sentences of Naser Abdolhoseyini and Reza Khademi, who had been sentenced to death for their participation in the recent unrests, were reduced to 12-year imprisonments. Naser’s picture was included in this video.

Grow up, and your father will,
Grow up and
He will buy you sufferings.
Grow up, and your father will
Grow up and
He will buy you indigences
Grow up and your father will, grow up and
He will buy you endless unemployments, starvations
Grow up and
Grow up and your father will buy you
Oppressions, tortures
Handcuffs, arrests, dungeons he will buy you
Grow up and
When you grow up and be seventeen
Grow up and your father will buy you
Executions.

GÜLTEN AKIN

Listen to the touching song written to this poem:

http://news.bahai.org/story/734