On August 15th, 2004 a 16-year-old girl was hanged in a public square in Neka, Iran. Her death sentence was for "acts incompatible with ... all » chastity". Her name was Atefah Rajabi Sahaaleh. The only evidence against Atefah was her own forced confession. Atefah railed against her judge in court for its unfairness, but this was her undoing. Judge Haji Rezai, who was also the local mullah, prosecutor and head of the city administration, personally obtained permission from Iran's Supreme Court to execute her, and put the noose around her neck himself before she was hoisted on a crane jib arm to her death.
Atefeh lost her mother in a car accident. Her father was a drug addict. At the age of 13, a 51 year old former government agent started molesting her. On the night of her wedding to a boy who loved her, she was taken by the authorites and soon after executed without knowledge of her family.
There are at least 75 other children facing execution in Iran. Sign the petition to stop child execution in Iran. Visit: www.stopchildexecutions.com.
The film clips are from a documentary film made by BB2 called "execution of a teenage girl" which can be viewed in full at : http://www.stopchildexecutions.com/multimedia.aspx
The song "24" is by Jem
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On August 15th, 2004 a 16-year-old girl was hanged in a public square in Neka, Iran. Her death sentence was for "acts incompatible with ... all » chastity". Her name was Atefah Rajabi Sahaaleh. The only evidence against Atefah was her own forced confession. Atefah railed against her judge in court for its unfairness, but this was her undoing. Judge Haji Rezai, who was also the local mullah, prosecutor and head of the city administration, personally obtained permission from Iran's Supreme Court to execute her, and put the noose around her neck himself before she was hoisted on a crane jib arm to her death.
Atefeh lost her mother in a car accident. Her father was a drug addict. At the age of 13, a 51 year old former government agent started molesting her. On the night of her wedding to a boy who loved her, she was taken by the authorites and soon after executed without knowledge of her family.
There are at least 75 other children facing execution in Iran. Sign the petition to stop child execution in Iran. Visit: www.stopchildexecutions.com.
The film clips are from a documentary film made by BB2 called "execution of a teenage girl" which can be viewed in full at : http://www.stopchildexecutions.com/multimedia.aspx
The song "24" is by Jem
During student days in December 2006, Iranian students showed their opposition to Islamic regime of Iran and to Ahmadinejad by holding his upside down photos and burning them during his speech... Iranian students held large demonstrations at different universities with messages that called for better economy, peace with the world and Freedom of expression. They carried slogans such as: "Leave US alone, think of bread" , "We need bread, not bombs", "Free political prisoners" and " and "injustice is dressed as religion
An 18 year old Iranian girl is facing execution for killing in self defense one of the men who were attempting to rape her and her 15 year old niece. For more information and to sign the petition to save her life visit:
www.helpnazanin.com
www.myspace.com/savenazanin
During her speech, Nazanin Afshin-Jam uses Nazanin Fatehi's story as a case study to illustrate the embedded discrimination that exists under Iran's Sharia Law during a woman's rights conference held in Montreal. The conference was put on by Presiden
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