Save Sakineh – sign the Avaaz urgent call to action
Following on from the WVoN story yesterday about the possible execution today of Iranian “stoning” woman, Sakineh Ashtiani, avaaaz.org is urging us to send an emergency message to countries such as Turkey and Brazil which could sway Iran to stop the execution.
It says that Iran’s allies and key UN powers are our best hope — they could persuade Iran of the serious political cost of this high-profile killing.
Click here to send them an urgent call to action.
Sakineh’s adultery case is a tragic sham stacked with human rights violations. First, she was to be stoned to death.
But the Iranian government had to revoke the sentence after her children generated a worldwide outcry against the farcical trial — she could not speak the language used in court and the alleged incidents of adultery took place after her husband’s death.
Then her lawyer was forced into exile, and the prosecution conjured up a new trumped-up charge for which she would be executed — the murder of her husband.
Despite this being double jeopardy, as she is already serving time for alleged complicity in this crime, Sakineh was tortured and paraded on national television to ‘confess’ and was found guilty.
Since then the regime has arrested two German journalists, her lawyer and her son, who has bravely led the international campaign to save his mother. All remain in prison and Sakineh’s son and lawyer have been also tortured and have no access to lawyers.
Now Iranian human rights activists state an order has just been issued from Tehran to implement her killing immediately.
She is on the list and today could be her execution day.
Let us prevent one of the most brutal and unfair punishments. Save Sakineh!