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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:20 am    Post subject: 17-year-old girl sentenced to death for self Defense Reply with quote

Iran : A 17 year old girl is sentenced to death by hanging.
2006/01/08

Source: http://www.faithfreedom.org/Announcement/601081013.htm


Nazanin, 17, was sentenced to death by hanging for defending herself against three rapists.

A young girl who defended herself and her chastity against three male assailants who intended to kidnap and rape her causing injury to one of them who later died in hospital was condemned to death by hanging in an Islamic court in Iran. Nazanin who has seen no more than 17 Springs, all of which under the tyrannical rule of the Mullahs is now facing execution for trying to defend herself and her honor.

No where in the world and under no law self defense is considered to be a crime, but in the tyrannical mullacracy of Iran if a woman does not resist rape she will be stoned as adulterer and if she does she will be hanged.

Nazanin, this young innocent girl, was assaulted by three criminal men in the West of Tehran while strolling with her niece in a park last March (2005). To defend herself she pulled out a knife and stabbed one of her assailants. The knife penetrated the ribs of her attacker who later died in the hospital. The attacks on women in Iran is so frequent that many are forced to carry a concealed weapon for self defense. Unfortunately the Islamic law does not even allow women the right to self defense.

Despite the fact that she had been acting in self defense, as shown by the evidences presented and the testimony of eyewitnesses, Nazanin was sentenced to death by hanging. In the last court hearing she told the judge “I only defended myself and the honor of my family”. She repeated this several times. Her words fell of deaf ears and the all male jury who like their misogynist prophet thought it is outrageous for a woman to stand for her rights and defend her dignity and honor, swiftly ordered her execution.

The travesty of justice in Islamic Republic of Iran is beyond description. Please send this news to all the newspapers big and small. Please do not allow this crime go unnoticed. This girl is an innocent flower in the hands of ferocious beasts. Do not allow them to nip her young life in the bud. Let us together provoke an outcry so loud that the ruling thugs in Iran can’t ignore.

These criminals have no shame and don’t give a hoot to world outcry and condemnation. Nonetheless it is our duty as humans not to remain silent.

Please ask your newspaper to report this story.

Please write to your MP and urge the Parliament in your country to condemn the Islamic regime of Iran for their misogyny, human rights violations and crime against humanity.

Please complain to the Office of High Commissioner of Human Rights tb-petitions@ohchr.org and ask them to pressure Iran to free Nazanin.

You have to state your name, nationality and address to the all the above if you want your complaint be taken seriously.

A few years ago the son of one of the Mullahs shot and killed a policeman. He walked free by giving a few thousands of dollars to the family of the victim.

“Evil triumphs when good people do nothing”.

Will you give a few minutes of your time to save this precious girl’s innocent life? She has not much time as executions in Iran are swift. Please show your humanity and act now.



See also this:

Related news

www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1859493,00.html

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5184

http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060108-092739-1620r
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17-year-old girl sentenced to death


http://www.iranpressnews.com/source/009781.htm
Organization for the Defense of Women's Rights

anjomanzananazadeh@yahoo.com

17-year-old Nazanin was sentenced to death for protecting her chastity against three rapists who attacked her on April 20th, 2005 [on the Akbarabad road that leads to the Tehran suburb of Karadj], with a knife. She stabbed one of her assailants, named Youssef, in self-defense; he was stabbed in the heart and later died in the hospital. The misogynist regime of the Mullahs that has ruthlessly violated the rights of all girls and women in Iran since it's inception in 1979 continues to savagely punish (either by public execution or stoning to death) all women for defending themselves.

During Nazanin's court hearing, onlookers who witnessed the attack, confirmed Nazanin's claims against her assailants; the penal court, branch 71 decided however that the death sentence must be imposed. In her last court hearing, Nazanin said: "I only wanted to defend myself and protect my family's reputation and good name." One of the Mullah judges replied: "How could you murder a young man? We will teach you a lesson so that the likes of your filthy whores cannot raise a hand on men ever again."

Later it turned out that her attackers were in fact Basijis (a mobilization force created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini; they are extremely Radical militia - overseen and supported by Khamenei and Ahmadinejad) from Karadj.

Freedom-loving women and youth,

We hereby announce that we will take to the streets and hold massive demonstrations against the immoral regime of Mullahs in order to show them, once and for all that they cannot play with the lives of Iranian women in order to promote and protract their political and despotic goals.

If you rise,
If I rise,
Everyone will rise.



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Iranian woman to hang
07/01/2006 13:24 - (SA)

Source: http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,6119,2-10-1462_1859493,00.html

Tehran - An 18-year-old Iranian woman has been sentenced to death for killing the man she says tried to rape her.

Iran's Etemad newpaper reports that the woman, identified as Nazanin, claimed self defence after she had stabbed a man to death in March 2005.

Nazanin, 17 at the time, had been out with her niece and their boyfriends in Tehran when two men started harassing them. She said the men tried to rape them after their boyfriends had run away.

Nazanin told the newspaper: "I committed murder to defend myself and my niece, I did not mean to kill him. I did not know what to do because nobody came to help us."

The European Union and international human rights groups have been pressuring Iran to stop executing convicted minors.

The United Nations general assembly has adopted a non-binding resolution denouncing the practice.

Iran's judiciary says minors are not executed in the republic. It has also proposed a law prohibiting the death penalty or flagellation for those who were minors at the time of the crimes.

In Iranian law, a boy can be executed from the age of 15, and a girl from the age of nine. However, the execution is carried out when the offender is over 18 years old.

The Iranian press reported a disabled man had been executed in public on Friday.

At least 81 people were executed in Iran last year. Amnesty International reports at least 159 people were executed in Iran in 2004.

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Iran to hang woman who killed in 'self-defense'
January 8, 2006
Source:
http://www.metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060108-092739-1620r

TEHRAN -- An 18-year-old Iranian woman who killed a man that she said tried to rape her has been sentenced to death for murder, according to a press report on Saturday.

The woman identified only as Nazanin claimed self-defense during her trial after she stabbed a man to death in March 2005, the Etemad newspaper reported.

It said that Nazanin, who was 17 at the time, had been out with her niece and their boyfriends on a road west of Tehran when two men started harassing them and then tried to rape them after the boyfriends had run away.

"I committed murder to defend myself and my niece, I did not mean to kill him. I did not know what to do because nobody came to help us," the paper quoted her as saying during her trial.

In January 2005, after seven years of legal wrangling, the Iranian judiciary acquitted a woman who killed a senior police officer that she said had attempted to rape her on the Gulf island of Kish.

The European Union and international human rights groups have been pressuring Iran to stop executing those under age 18, and the UN General Assembly has adopted a non-binding resolution denouncing the practice of executing minors in Iran.

Iran's ultraconservative judiciary has responded to critics by saying that minors are not executed in the Islamic republic. It has also proposed a law that would prohibit the death penalty or flagellation for those who were minors at the time of the crimes.

According to Iranian law, a boy can be executed from the age of 15, and a girl from the age of nine. However, the execution is carried out when the offender is over 18 years old.

The Iranian press reported that a disabled man had been executed in public on Friday, the first of the year. At least 81 people were executed in Iran last year, according to an AFP tally based on press reports and witnesses. Amnesty International says that at least 159 people were executed in Iran in 2004.

Capital offenses in Iran include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, repeated sodomy, adultery or prostitution, treason and espionage.



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صدور حکم اعدام برای یک دختر نوجوان 17 ساله در ایران
انجمن دفاع از حقوق زنان در ايران

نازنين دختر 17 ساله بخاطر دفاع از ناموس خويش به اعدام محكوم شد!

دختر نوجوانى كه در مقابل تعرض سه مرد مهاجم به وسيله چاقو از خود دفاع كرده و يكي از مهاجمين را از پاي در آورده بود با صدور حكم نهايى شعبه ۷۱ دادگاه كيفرى، به قصاص محكوم شد. نازنين فقط 17 بهار از عمر كوتاهش در حاكميت ظلم و ستم ملاها سپري گشته است.

اكنون باز هم نابرابري و باز هم ظلم و ستم، در حق زنان و دختران معصوم ايراني به وسيله كارگزاران جنايتكار ولايت، تازيدن گرفته است. در هيچ كجاي دنيا دفاع از خود جرم نيست، ولي در نظام آخوندي زن اگر از خود در برابر تعرضات دفاع نكند و تن به خواسته كثيف آنان دهد، سنگسار ميشود و اگر دفاع كند اعدام خواهد شد! اين است نابرابري و عدل حكومت ولايت صفياني ملاهاي حاكم بر كشور اسيرمان ايران.

نازنين دخترك بي پناه و معصوم ، ظهر روز ۲۰ فروردين ماه هنگامى كه از سوى سه مرد مهاجم در جاده اكبرآباد كرج مورد هجوم قرار گرفته بود، در دفاع از خود، يكى از مهاجمان به نام يوسف را با چاقو مجروح كرد كه برخورد چاقو به قلب مهاجم مزاحم، جان او را روى تخت بيمارستان گرفت.

با توجه به آنكه دختر جوان در دفاع از خود به اين عمل دست زده بود و مستندات پرونده و گفته هاى شاهدان نيز همين موضوع را تاييد مى كرد، گمان مى رفت حكم ديگرى غير از قصاص براى اين متهم ۱۷ ساله صادر شود.نازنين در آخرين جلسه محاكمه اش به قاضى گفت : ” تنها براى دفاع از خود و حفظ آبروي خانواده ام دست به اين كار زدهام ” و چند بار بر اين گفته خود پافشارى نمود، ولى هيات قضايى شعبه ۷۱ دادگاه كيفرى كه مانند فريسيان رياكار ، بنابر فرمان ولي فقيه زن ستيزشان، تحمل اينكه زني در برابر مردان مهاجم قدعلم كند و از خود و حقوقش دفاع نمايد را ندارند بدون گوش كردن به حرفهاي متهم او را سريعا به اعدام محكوم نمودند.

اين دين فروشان، به دليل شدت كينه حيواني از زنان ودختران ايراني ، با سياست كشتار زنان به دلايل و بهانه هاي واهي خويش سلطه اهريمني خود را بر سرزمين اسير ما ميخواهند ادامه دهند. يكي از قضات ضد شرع گفت: به چه دليل پسر جواني را به قتل رساندي، حالا تو را درس عبرتي خواهيم كرد تا ديگر امثال شماها دست روي مردان بلند نكنيد!!

لازم به ذكر است كه طبق گزارشات رسيده نفرات مهاجم از بسيجيان كرج بوده اند.

واي بر شما سنگين دلان و رياكاران دين فروش . اما به زودي خواهيد ديد كه بالاخره ضربه نهايي بر پيكر فرتوت شما از جانب همين زنان و دختران فرود خواهد آمد. زيرا كه زنان ايراني با قدمت 100 ساله مبارزاتشان حاضر به اينهمه ظلم و ستم و نابرابري نخواهند بود . دير نيست روزي كه ريش و ريشه شمايان را بركنيم و ايران را از لوث وجودتان پاك گردانيم.

زنان و جوانان آزاديخواه

در اينجا اعلام ميكنيم در صورتيكه نازنين دختر 17 ساله معصوم را كه هيچ گناهي بجز دفاع از خود نداشته اعدام نمايند، همگي دست به تظاهرات و اعتراضات خياباني خواهيم زد و به حكام وقت نشان خواهيم داد كه با جان زنان ايراني نميتوانند مانند يك كالاي بي ارزش و براي پيش بردن مقاصد سياسي و ارتجاعي خود استفاده كنند.

تو اگر برخيزي
من اگر برخيزم
همه برمي خيزند

پيش به سوي اعتراضات هر چه گسترده تر بر عليه احكام زن ستيزانه آخوندهاي حاكم

انجمن دفاع از حقوق زنان در ايران- مهري اميري


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Iran : A 17 year old girl is sentenced to death by hanging.
2006/01/08

Source: http://www.faithfreedom.org/Announcement/601081013.htm



A Plea For Support & PROTEST: Rise Up For Defense Of Brave 17-year-old Iranian girl Sentenced to Death By Islamist Mullah Court for Defending Herself Against Three Islamist Rapists and Support Islamist Regime Change NOW


To: All Freedom-Loving Compatriots (Right, Left and Center)

17-year-old Brave Iranian Girl Nazanin was sentenced to death by hanging for defending herself against three rapists on April 20th, 2005.
A Brave girl who defended herself and her chastity against three male assailants who intended to kidnap and rape her causing injury to one of them who later died in hospital was condemned to death by hanging in an Islamic court in Iran. Nazanin who has seen no more than 17 Springs, all of which under the tyrannical rule of the Mullahs is now facing execution for trying to defend herself and her honor.

No where in the world and under no law self defense is considered to be a crime, but in the tyrannical Mullacracy of Iran if a woman does not resist rape she will be stoned as adulterer and if she does she will be hanged.

Nazanin, this young innocent girl, was assaulted by three Islamist men in the West of Tehran while strolling with her niece in a park last March (2005). To defend herself she pulled out a knife and stabbed one of her assailants. The knife penetrated the ribs of her attacker who later died in the hospital. The attacks on women in Iran is so frequent that many are forced to carry a concealed weapon for self defense. Unfortunately the Islamic law does not even allow women the right to self defense.

Despite the fact that she had been acting in self defense, as shown by the evidences presented and the testimony of eyewitnesses, Nazanin was sentenced to death by hanging.

During Nazanin's court hearing, onlookers who witnessed the attack, confirmed Nazanin's claims against her assailants; the penal court, branch 71 decided however that the death sentence must be imposed. In her last court hearing, Nazanin said: "I only wanted to defend myself and protect my family's reputation and good name." One of the Mullah judges replied: "How could you murder a young man? We will teach you a lesson so that the likes of your filthy whores cannot raise a hand on men ever again."
Later it turned out that her attackers were in fact Basijis (a mobilization force created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini; they are extremely Radical militia - overseen and supported by Khamenei and Ahmadinejad) from Karaj.
it is outrageous for a woman to stand for her rights and defend her dignity and honor, swiftly ordered her execution.

The travesty of justice in Islamic Republic of Iran is beyond description. Please send this news to all the newspapers big and small. Please do not allow this crime go unnoticed. This girl is an innocent flower in the hands of ferocious beasts. Do not allow them to nip her young life in the bud. Let us together provoke an outcry so loud that the ruling thugs in Iran can’t ignore.

These criminals have no shame and don’t give a hoot to world outcry and condemnation. Nonetheless it is our duty as humans not to remain silent.

In another case of “acid attack” from Iran Focus source we have been informed: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 04 – In the latest “acid attack” by radical Islamists on young women accused of ignoring the country’s strict dress regulations, two female university students had acid splashed on their faces in the town of Shahroud, north-eastern Iran. ( http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5152 )

A Plea For Support & Demonstration Attendance from all Freedom-Loving Activists around the world in our united fight against Execution of 17 Year Old Gir, Terrorists, Islamofascists, and Fanaticism!


This is an invitation to join us in a worldwide demonstration against the Mafia Mullahs, Terrorists, Islamofascists, and Fanatics who intend to stop and kill the spread of FREEDOM, SECULARISM & DEMOCRACY around the World! Our unified presence in a worldwide demonstration will be the biggest blow to the Mafia Mullahs.

If you are against GENOCIDE,

If you are against TERRORISM,

If you are against FANATICS,

If you are against the MAFIA MULLAHS,

If you are against ISLAMOFASCISTS,

If you are against ALL HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS,

If your family has been victimized by any act of terrorism (Sept 11th Terror Attacks, Terrorism in Europe, Middle East, Asia and throughout the world), please bring a picture of your loved one/s to the demonstration.

If your family has been victimized by the Islamist Mafia Regime in Iran or is a family member of one of the over 100,000 freedom-loving political prisoners, torture victims, or Iranians who have been executed in the past 25 years, please bring a picture of your loved one/s to the demonstration.

If you oppose all terrorism and acts of violence against those who wish to live in freedom, then your support and unity with the Iranian people should not be based on whether you are a democrat, republican, libertarian, conservative, independent, green, left, right, or center, but should be based only on your belief that the destiny of the human race is freedom and the unending pursuit of our wishes and our dreams.

Freedom-loving Iranians and people of the world invite you to participate in one of the following scheduled demonstrations, which are part of an overall offensive that is being launched against the Islamic Mafia Master's of Terror, who currently hold the Iranian people and much of the world hostage. Together we will destroy this fanatical virus that threatens to destroy all we have fought, suffered, and lived for, for so long! Our destiny is nothing less than absolute freedom, an end to political imprisonment, and the death of theocratic regimes everywhere!



For updated information and schedules regarding the worldwide FREEDOM-MOVEMENT visit ActivistChat.com! Also, if you or your group is organizing a pro-freedom demonstrations please contact us at info@activistchat.com.
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The others cannot rest.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 2:45 pm    Post subject: We Should Not Allow This Happen Again Reply with quote

We Should Not Allow This Happen Again

Visit: http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3661

The Heartbreaking And Enraging Story of a 16 Year Old Girl Executed by the Islamist Mafia Mullah Dictatorship on Sunday, August 15, in the town of Neka, Iran.


16 year old girl executed in Neka, Iran for "engaging in acts incompatible with chastity" in other words, pre-marital sex by the Corrupt Mafia Islamist Mullah's Regime.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:44 pm    Post subject: Iranian Woman Sentenced To Die For Killing Attacker Reply with quote

Iranian Woman Sentenced To Die For Killing Attacker

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/01/7CFA38F1-1FA9-4EA1-A20B-EDDA613C1A50.html

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7 January 2006 -- Iran's "Etemad" newspaper reports today that an 18-year-old woman has been sentenced to death by hanging for killing a man she said was trying to rape her.

The newspaper reported that the woman, identified only as Nazanin, testified during her trial that she and her niece were out with their boyfriends when they were accosted by two men who chased away the boyfriends then tried to rape the two young women.

Nazanin admitted stabbing one of the men to prevent her and her niece from being assaulted.

Nazanin was only 17 years old at the time, but under Iranian law a boy can be executed from the age of 15 and a girl from the age of nine.

At least 81 people were executed in 2005 in Iran, which has been heavily criticized within the international community for its laws and practices on capital punishment.

(AFP)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:47 pm    Post subject: Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists Reply with quote

Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists
Sat. 07 Jan 2006
Iran Focus

Source: http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5183

Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.

The state-run daily Etemaad reported on Saturday that 18-year-old Nazanin confessed to stabbing one of three men who had attacked the pair along with their boyfriends while they were spending some time in a park west of the Iranian capital in March 2005.

Nazanin, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the three men started to throw stones at them, the two girls’ boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless.

She described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand.

As the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said.

The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.

Last week, a court in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, sentenced Delara Darabi to death by hanging charged with murder when she was 17 years old. Darabi has denied the charges.

In August 2004, Iran’s Islamic penal system sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, to death after a sham trial, in which she was accused of committing “acts incompatible with chastity”.

The teenage victim had no access to a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to no avail. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:51 pm    Post subject: IRAN. IRAN TO HANG WOMAN WHO KILLED IN 'SELF DEFENCE' Reply with quote

IRAN. IRAN TO HANG WOMAN WHO KILLED IN 'SELF DEFENCE'

http://www.handsoffcain.org/news/index.php?iddocumento=8300720

January 7, 2006: an 18-year-old Iranian woman who killed a man she said tried to rape her was sentenced to death for murder, according to the Etemad newspaper.
The woman identified only as Nazanin claimed self defence during her trial after she stabbed a man to death in March 2005. The paper said Nazanin, who was 17 at the time, had been out with her niece and their boyfriends on a road west of Tehran when two men started harassing them and then tried to rape them after the boyfriends had run away. "I committed murder to defend myself and my niece, I did not mean to kill him. I did not know what to do because nobody came to help us," the paper quoted her as saying during her trial. (Sources: Agence France Presse, 07/01/2005)
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:14 pm    Post subject: Iran sentences teen murderer to death Reply with quote

Iran sentences teen murderer to death
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An Iranian court sentenced a 17-year-old woman to death by hanging for a killing she says she committed in self-defence, a newspaper has reported.

Iran ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and says it has suspended the death penalty for people accused of crimes while under 18.

But the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child last year urged Iran to halt the execution of young offenders after it hanged a 17-year old.

Hambastegi reported that the woman, identified only as "Nazanin", had stabbed an attacker after he and two other men tried to drag her and her niece into a garden.

She told the court in Tehran that she struck out in self-defence. Nazanin can appeal to a higher court.

Judiciary officials were not immediately available to comment.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:19 pm    Post subject: A SHOCKING EVENT ON THE EMANCIPATION DAY OF IRANIAN WOMEN Reply with quote

A SHOCKING EVENT ON THE EMANCIPATION DAY OF IRANIAN WOMEN
Jan 8, 2006
Homa Mohaseb - Persian Journal
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http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_12107.shtml

First, let us read the news: "On January 7, 2006 the 18-year-old Iranian woman who killed a man she said tried to rape her was sadly sentenced to death for murder. The woman identified only as Nazanin claimed self defense during her trial after she stabbed a man to death in March 2005. Nazanin, who was 17 at the time, had been out with her niece and their boyfriends on a road west of Tehran when two men started harassing them and then tried to rape them after the boyfriends had run away.

"I committed murder to defend myself and my niece; I did not mean to kill him. I did not know what to do because nobody came to help us," she said during her trial.

In January 2005, after seven years of legal wrangling, the Iranian judiciary acquitted a woman who killed a senior police officer she said had attempted to rape on the Persian Gulf island of Kish. The European Union and international human rights groups have been pressuring Iran to stop executing those under age 18, and the UN General Assembly has adopted a non-binding resolution denouncing the practice of executing minors in Iran.

According to Iranian law, a boy can be executed from the age of 15, and a girl from the age of nine. However, the execution is carried out when the offender is over 18 years old".

On January the 7th, which coincides with Day 17 in Persian Calendar, is in fact a very important day in the History of Iran, and it was used to be called the "Emancipation Day of Iranian Women".




Reza Khan, What Iran Needs Now
On January 7, 1936 Reza Shah (the founder of Pahlavi dynasty), his wife and daughters attended the graduation ceremony at the Teacher College (in Farsi: Daneshsaray-e-Aali) in Tehran. All women participated in the ceremony were advised to come unveiled. Emancipation of women was officially born. Unveiling was made compulsory and women were banned from wearing the Arabs' veil (in Farsi:chador) and scarf in public.

The Arab-parast Mullahs of Iran executed and killed a young girl in Tehran on the "Emancipation Day of Iranian Women"? to demonstrate the Mullahs' brutality, viciousness, and rough treatment especially towards all women in Iran!

Homa Mohaseb is an Assistant Bank Manager in Ames, Iowa.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 10:07 pm    Post subject: Iran to hang woman who killed in 'self-defense' Reply with quote

Iran to hang woman who killed in 'self-defense'
January 8, 2006

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TEHRAN -- An 17-year-old Iranian woman who killed a man that she said tried to rape her has been sentenced to death for murder, according to a press report on Saturday.

The woman identified only as Nazanin claimed self-defense during her trial after she stabbed a man to death in March 2005, the Etemad newspaper reported.

It said that Nazanin, who was 17 at the time, had been out with her niece and their boyfriends on a road west of Tehran when two men started harassing them and then tried to rape them after the boyfriends had run away.

"I committed murder to defend myself and my niece, I did not mean to kill him. I did not know what to do because nobody came to help us," the paper quoted her as saying during her trial.

In January 2005, after seven years of legal wrangling, the Iranian judiciary acquitted a woman who killed a senior police officer that she said had attempted to rape her on the Gulf island of Kish.

The European Union and international human rights groups have been pressuring Iran to stop executing those under age 18, and the UN General Assembly has adopted a non-binding resolution denouncing the practice of executing minors in Iran.

Iran's ultraconservative judiciary has responded to critics by saying that minors are not executed in the Islamic republic. It has also proposed a law that would prohibit the death penalty or flagellation for those who were minors at the time of the crimes.

According to Iranian law, a boy can be executed from the age of 15, and a girl from the age of nine. However, the execution is carried out when the offender is over 18 years old.

The Iranian press reported that a disabled man had been executed in public on Friday, the first of the year. At least 81 people were executed in Iran last year, according to an AFP tally based on press reports and witnesses. Amnesty International says that at least 159 people were executed in Iran in 2004.

Capital offenses in Iran include murder, rape, armed robbery, apostasy, blasphemy, serious drug trafficking, repeated sodomy, adultery or prostitution, treason and espionage.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 4:02 pm    Post subject: IRAN TO HANG TEENAGE GIRL ATTACKED BY RAPISTS Reply with quote

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Saturday January 7, 2006 - Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Saturday January 7, 2006 - An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.

The state-run daily Etemaad reported on Saturday that 18-year-old Nazanin confessed to stabbing one of three men who had attacked the pair along with their boyfriends while they were spending some time in a park west of the Iranian capital in March 2005.

Nazanin, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the three men started to throw stones at them, the two girls' boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless.

She described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand.

As the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said.

The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.

Last week, a court in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, sentenced Delara Darabi to death by hanging charged with murder when she was 17 years old. Darabi has denied the charges. In August 2004, Iran's Islamic penal system sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, to death after a sham trial, in which she was accused of committing "acts incompatible with chastity".

The teenage victim had no access to a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to no avail. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:07 pm    Post subject: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement Regarding Nazanin Reply with quote

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Public Statement


AI Index: MDE 13/005/2006 (Public)
News Service No: 010
16 January 2006

Source: http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=ENGMDE130052006


Iran: Amnesty International calls for end to death penalty for child offenders

Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to take immediate steps to end the use of the death penalty for child offenders. Two new cases have been reported in which child offenders – persons under 18 at the time of the crime – have been sentenced to death by Iranian courts, in breach of Iran’s obligations under international human rights law.

On 3 January, 18-year-old Nazanin was sentenced to death for murder by a criminal court, after she reportedly admitted stabbing to death one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 16-year-old niece in a park in Karaj in March 2005. She was seventeen at the time. Her sentence is subject to review by the Court of Appeal, and if upheld, to confirmation by the Supreme Court.

According to reports in the Iranian newspaper, E’temaad, Nazanin told the court that three men had approached her and her niece, forced them to the ground and tried to rape them. Seeking to defend her niece and herself, Nazanin stabbed one man in the hand with a knife that she possessed and then, when the men continued to pursue them, stabbed another of the men in the chest. She reportedly told the court “I wanted to defend myself and my niece. I did not want to kill that boy. At the heat of the moment I did not know what to do because no one came to our help”, but was nevertheless sentenced to death.


Another child offender, 19-year-old Delara Darabi, was sentenced to death by a court in the city of Rasht for a murder committed when she was 17 years old. She denied the killing but the sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court at the beginning of January, though her lawyer is reportedly appealing the decision.

The Persian language news service Aftab reported that Delara Darabi and a 19-year-old man, Amir Hossein, broke into a house intending to commit burglary, but killed the woman who lived there. Delara Darabi initially confessed to the murder, but subsequently retracted her confession and stated that she had admitted responsibility for the murder at the request of Amir Hossein, to help him escape execution, because he believed that she would not be sentenced to death because she was under 18 at the time of the murder. She said that she was under the influence of sedatives during the burglary.

As a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Iran has undertaken not to execute anyone for an offence committed when they were under the age of 18. Nevertheless, Amnesty International has recorded 18 executions of child offenders in Iran since 1990. In 2005 alone, at least eight executions of child offenders were recorded.

The Iranian authorities have been reported for about four years to be considering passing legislation to ban the use of the death penalty for offences committed under the age of 18. Despite this, over the past two years, the number of child offenders executed has risen. Recent comments by a judiciary spokesperson suggest that the new law would in any case only prohibit the death penalty for certain crimes when committed by children, as he stated that “qisas” crimes (retribution – the sentence issued in cases where defendants are found guilty of murder) were a private, not a state matter. The majority of executions of child offenders in Iran are cases of “qisas” where the individual has been found guilty of murder.

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which monitors states’ compliance with the CRC, in January 2005 urged Iran to immediately stay all executions of people convicted of crimes committed when they were under 18, and to abolish the use of the death penalty in such cases.

On 9 December, Philip Alston, the United Nations Human Rights Commission’s Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, said “At a time when virtually every other country in the world has firmly and clearly renounced the execution of people for crimes they committed as children, the Iranian approach is particularly unacceptable... It is all the more surprising because the obligation to refrain from such executions is not only clear and incontrovertible, but the Government of Iran has itself stated that it will cease this practice.”

Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to prevent the executions of Delara Darabi and Nazanin and other child offenders, and to take urgent steps to abolish the death penalty for all child offenders in accordance with Iran’s obligations as a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 2:50 pm    Post subject: Remember This Name, One Nazanin for Another Reply with quote

Remember This Name, One Nazanin for Another

April 06, 2006
National Review Online
Q&A by Kathryn Jean Lopez


http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/qa200604060620.asp




Nazanin Afshin-Jam is not just another pretty face. This former Miss World Canada — 2003 runner-up to the Miss World pageant — who will have her first album out this summer, has much more on her mind than her music and her cosmetics bag. Nazanin is a native of Iran. She recently heard about a young woman — with whom she shares both a nativeland and a name — who has been sentenced to death in Iran for killing a man in self-defense when she and her niece were being assaulted (the men were trying to rape them). Nazanin has since adopted the cause of her namesake.

Nazanin recently spoke to National Review Online editor Kathryn Lopez about young Nazanin — who Lopez wrote about here — and the plight of the Iranian people, as well as Ms. Afshin-Jam's career and Persian roots.

Kathryn Jean Lopez: Why are you worrying yourself with this Iranian girl, Nazanin's, fate?

Nazanin: When I first heard about Nazanin I was horrified. I instinctively thought, “It could have been me”. If three men tried to rape my 16-year-old niece and me and I had possession of a knife I would have defended myself in the same way. The only difference is that I thankfully live in a country that understands JUSTICE. I feel terrible that a victim of attempted rape is being treated as a first rate criminal.

I do not only worry about the case of Nazanin, since she represents a larger problem. She is just one of many people being wrongfully tried in Iran, Pakistan, and around the world. Nazanin’s case is particularly concerning because Iran is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and is therefore under obligation NOT to impose the death penalty on those under the age of 18. Nevertheless, Amnesty International has recorded 18 executions of child offenders in Iran since 1990. In 2005 alone, at least eight executions of child offenders were recorded. Nazanin was 17 years old at the time of commission of the offense and therefore Iran is in breach. If Iran is in breach of this treaty could they do the same for other treaties particularly those in relation to nuclear energy?

Lopez: Why did your family leave Iran?

Nazanin: We left to escape political persecution due to the Revolution. We could not tolerate the brutally of the regime and political, social and economic instability, not to mention a judicial system based on sharia law that spells out that a woman’s life is worth half that of a man’s

Nazanin: Why was your father tortured?

Lopez: The Islamic Fundamentalists forbid music and mingling between men and women. My father was the General Manager of the Sheraton Hotel in Iran, so he allowed for these to take place. They shaved his head, brutally lashed and tortured him until he could no longer stand. He was to be put before a firing squad, but by miraculous intervention through a mutual acquaintance he was released. He almost died due to his injuries but thank God he is with us today. He was one among thousands and thousands to be subject to such torture.

Lopez: Do you remember anything about Iran?

Nazanin: I left when I was only one, so unfortunately, the only memories I have are from pictures in my photo album.

Lopez: Do you ever think about what your life would be like if your family stayed there?

Nazanin: All the time. This is why I am so dedicated to helping those stuck in such a repressive regime.

Lopez: Does your family keep in touch with people in Iran still? If so what do they say about the situation there — politically, culturally?

Nazanin: People in Iran are afraid that their newly elected President Ahmadinejad is jeopardizing the quality of life of the Iranian people through his abuse of power and derogatory remarks on the international stage. They fear economic sanctions and/or war by the West. In other words they fear a repeat of Iraq on Iran.


Lopez: Have you ever been back? Do you hope to go back?

Nazanin: I have never been back; however my dream is to one day be able to visit my homeland. It would be such an honor to visit a country with such an ancient and rich culture. I think I will wait until things calm down in the region before packing any bags.

Lopez: You do some singing in Persian, don’t you? Do Iranians ever get to hear your music?

Nazanin: Most of my music is in English; however I have one song in French, others with Spanish influence and one traditional Persian song. My song “Someday: the revolution song” is in English but speaks of Iran. I have samples of my music on my website, www.nazanin.ca and my album will be out for worldwide release in July.

Lopez: What’s the message of “Someday”?

Nazanin: Generally, “Someday” is a song of hope. It speaks to those who have had to change their life due to political or social injustices. It speaks about staying strong, rising above and driving forward to free oneself from the shackles that bind.

Specifically, I sing to the oppressed youth of Iran — who have been witness to a “regressive revolution” — not to give up because “someday we will find a way.”
Full lyrics can be found next to where my music plays on my website.

Lopez: Where can people go to hear more of your music?

Nazanin:
www.nazanin.ca or
www.myspace.com/nazaninmusic

Lopez: What kinds of doors are opened to a Miss World Canada — to pursue political issues, for instance?

Nazanin: Having won the Miss World Canada title and having come runner up at Miss World in a television broadcast of over 2.2 billion people has certainly helped in giving me a platform to speak on issues close to my heart. During my reign I had the opportunity to travel the world and be a spokesperson for various charities; naturally I gained a lot of contacts which is now helping me gain momentum in the efforts to help save young Nazanin and in pursuing other humanitarian issues.

Lopez: I’m guessing Iran doesn’t participate in Miss World, right?

Nazanin: No, “the Islamic Republic of Iran” does not participate in Miss World. During my year I felt like I was a direct ambassador of Canada and an indirect ambassador of Iran.

Lopez: Have you been able to talk to anyone about Nazanin’s case?

Nazanin: Yes, I am getting support from people in my local community including Negar Azmudeh — an immigration lawyer that focuses on human rights issues. We are in the process of trying to get a hold of young Nazanin’s lawyer in Iran to get more details about the case and ask them what is needed to help save her life.

In the meantime we have started a petition.

Amnesty International will be getting back to me in a few days about the next steps of action.

Once we have all the necessary information we will be forming coalitions with various Women’s Rights groups and Human Rights NGOs and compassionate Islamic groups to move forward. We will also be contacting the media.

Lopez: What is your hope for women like Nazanin and for the Iranian people in general?

Nazanin: I hope that women in the Middle East will be respected and recognized as equals. Iran is a strong country with a highly educated population; the only thing missing is opportunity. Iranians are recognized at the top of their schools and fields worldwide. My hope is for Iranians (and all citizens of the world) to have access to capabilities to follow all their dreams without fear of persecution. I hope Iran realizes its full potential soon under a free and democratic system.

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Iran : A 17 year old girl is sentenced to death by hanging.
2006/01/08

Source: http://www.faithfreedom.org/Announcement/601081013.htm



A Plea For Support & PROTEST: Rise Up For Defense Of Brave 17-year-old Iranian girl Sentenced to Death By Islamist Mullah Court for Defending Herself Against Three Islamist Rapists and Support Islamist Regime Change NOW
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:41 pm    Post subject: Save Nazanin NOW Reply with quote


Please Sign Petition 19 Now: Save Nazanin
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What You Can Do
1- Sign and spread this petition, started by Miss World Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam.

2- Help spreading the story about Nazanin! Tell everyone you know, family, friends and others who might be interested. Direct them to this web page and ask them to take action for Nazanin.

3- Contact newspapers, TV-channels, blogs and other media and ask them to report this story.
4- Write about Nazanin in your own blog, homepage, or in internet forums or chat rooms you frequent.
5- Put a link to this page in your email signature.
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=28004#28004
6- Contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in your country and ask them to pressure Iran to commute the death sentence and free Nazanin.

7- By increasing the world public awareness we will create powerful critical mass that forces Islamofascist regime to back off and FREE this brave Iranian girl Nazanin NOW.
Please remember those who create Fear Society by execution and torture are very weak people and live in fear from anyone, anything and their own shadows ….
With Unity and courage we the people can burst the Evil Islamofascist bubble …

8- Contact those who you think they might care show them you are angry and Nazanin Must Become FREE NOW, the contact list is shown below.


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The following is a listing, by state, of email addresses of United State Congress members:

Alabama
Sen. Jeff Sessions senator@sessions.senate.gov
Sen. Richard Shelby senator@shelby.senate.gov
Rep. Spencer Bachus sbachus@hr.house.gov
Rep. Sonny Callahan callahan@hr.house.gov
Rep. Bud Cramer budmail@hr.house.gov
Rep. Terry Everett everett@hr.house.gov

Alaska
Sen. Ted Stevens senator_stevens@stevens.senate.gov
Sen. Frank Murkowski email@murkowski.senate.gov

Arizona
Sen. Jon Kyl info@kyl.senate.gov
Sen. John McCain senator_mccain@mccain.senate.gov
Rep. J. D. Hayworth hayworth@hr.house.gov
Rep. Jim Kolbe jimkolbe@hr.house.gov
Rep. Ed Pastor edpastor@hr.house.gov

Arkansas
Sen. Dale Bumpers senator@bumpers.senate.gov
Sen. Tim Hutchinson senator hutchinson@hutchinson.senate.gov
Rep. Jay Dickey jdickey@hr.house.gov
Rep. Tim Hutchinson timhutch@hr.house.gov

California
Sen. Barbara Boxer senator@boxer.senate.gov
Sen. Dianne Feinstein senator@feinstein.senate.gov
Rep. Brian Bilbray bilbray@hr.house.gov
Rep. George Brown talk2geb@hr.house.gov
Rep. Tom Campbell campbell@hr.house.gov
Rep. Chris Cox chriscox@hr.house.gov
Rep. David Dreier cyberrep@hr.house.gov
Rep. Anna Eshoo annagram@hr.house.gov
Rep. Sam Farr samfarr@hr.house.gov
Rep. Vic Fazio dcaucus@hr.house.gov
Rep. Jane Harman jharman@hr.house.gov
Rep. Tom Lantos talk2tom@hr.house.gov
Rep. Jerry Lewis khuiskes@hr.house.gov
Rep. Zoe Lofgren zoegram@hr.house.gov
Rep. Howard McKeon tellbuck@hr.house.gov
Rep. George Miller gmiller@hr.house.gov
Rep. Ron Packard rpackard@hr.house.gov
Rep. Nancy Pelosi sfnancy@hr.house.gov
Rep. George Radanovich george@hr.house.gov
Rep. Frank Riggs repriggs@hr.house.gov
Rep. Fortney 'Pete' Stark petemail@hr.house.gov
Rep. Lynn C. Woolsey woolsey@hr.house.gov

Colorado
Sen. Wayne Allard
Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell data@nighthorse.falcontech.com
Rep. Dan Schaefer schaefer@hr.house.gov
Rep. David Skaggs skaggs@hr.house.gov

Connecticut
Sen. Christopher Dodd. sen_dodd@dodd.senate.gov
Sen. Joseph Lieberman. senator_lieberman@lieberman.senate.gov
Rep. Sam Gejdenson bozrah@hr.house.gov
Rep. Christopher Shays cshays@hr.house.gov

Delaware
Sen. Joseph Biden senator@biden.senate.gov
Sen. William Roth
Rep. Michael Castle delaware@hr.house.gov

Florida
Sen. Bob Graham bob_graham@graham.senate.gov
Sen. Connie Mack senator_mack@jec.senate.gov
Rep. Michael Bilirakis truerep@hr.house.gov
Rep. Charles Canady canady@hr.house.gov
Rep. Peter Deutsch pdeutsch@hr.house.gov
Rep. Alcee Hastings hastings@hr.house.gov
Rep. John Mica mica@hr.house.gov
Rep. Dan Miller miller13@hr.house.gov
Rep. Cliff Stearns cstearns@hr.house.gov
Rep. Karen Thurman kthurman@hr.house.gov
Rep. Dave Weldon fla-15@hr.house.gov

Georgia
Sen. Max Cleland senator_max_cleland@cleland.senate.gov
Sen. Paul Coverdell senator_coverdell@coverdell.senate.gov
Rep. Saxby Chambliss saxby@hr.house.gov
Rep. Mac Collins rep3mac@hr.house.gov
Rep. Newt Gingrich georgia6@hr.house.gov
Rep. John Linder jlinder@hr.house.gov
Rep. Charlie Norwood ga10@hr.house.gov

Hawaii
Sen. Daniel Akaka
Sen. Daniel Inouye senator@inouye.senate.gov
Rep. Neil Abercrombie neil@abercrombie.house.gov

Idaho
Sen. Larry Craig larry_craig@craig.senate.gov
Sen. Dirk Kempthorne dirk_kempthorne@kempthorne.senate.gov
Rep. Helen Chenoweth askhelen@hr.house.gov

Illinois
Sen. Richard Durbin
Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun senator@moseley-braun.senate.gov
Rep. Jerry Costello jfcil12@hr.house.gov
Rep. Harris Fawell hfawell@hr.house.gov
Rep. Luis Gutierrez luisg@hr.house.gov
Rep. Dennis Hastert dhastert@hr.house.gov
Rep. Ray LaHood lahood18@hr.house.gov
Rep. Bobby Rush brush@hr.house.gov
Rep. Jerry Weller jweller@hr.house.gov

Indiana
Sen. Dan Coats
Sen. Richard Lugar lugar@iquest.net
Rep. Lee Hamilton hamilton@hr.house.gov
Rep. John Hostettler johnhost@hr.house.gov
Rep. David McIntosh mcintosh@hr.house.gov
Rep. Tim Roemer troemer@hr.house.gov
Rep. Mark Souder souder@hr.house.gov

Iowa
Sen. Charles Grassley chuck_grassley@grassley.senate.gov
Sen. Tom Harkin tom_harkin@harkin.senate.gov
Rep. Jim Nussle nussleia@hr.house.gov

Kansas
Sen. Sam Brownback sam_brownback@brownback.senate.gov
Sen. Pat Roberts
Rep. Todd Tiahrt tiahrt@hr.house.gov

Kentucky
Sen. Wendell Ford wendell_ford@ford.senate.gov
Sen. Mitch McConnell senator@mcconnell.senate.gov
Rep. Jim Bunning bunning4@hr.house.gov
Rep. Ed Whitfield edky01@hr.house.gov

Louisiana
Sen. John Breaux senator@breaux.senate.gov
Sen. Mary Landrieu senator@landrieu.senate.gov
Rep. Jim McCrery mccrery@hr.house.gov

Maine
Sen. Olympia Snowe olympia@snowe.senate.gov
Sen. Susan Collins senator@collins.senate.gov
Rep. John Baldacci baldacci@hr.house.gov

Maryland
Sen. Barbara Mikulski. senator@mikulski.senate.gov
Sen. Paul Sarbanes senator@sarbanes.senate.gov
Rep. Ben Cardin cardin@hr.house.gov
Rep. Robert Ehrlich, Jr. ehrlich@hr.house.gov
Rep. Albert Wynn alwynn@hr.house.gov

Massachusetts
Sen. Edward Kennedy senator@kennedy.senate.gov
Sen. John Kerry john_kerry@kerry.senate.gov
Rep. Martin Meehan mtmeehan@hr.house.gov
Rep. Joe Moakley jmoakley@hr.house.gov
Rep. John Olver olver@hr.house.gov

Michigan
Sen. Spencer Abraham michigan@abraham.senate.gov
Sen. Carl Levin senator@levin.senate.gov
Rep. Dave Camp davecamp@hr.house.gov
Rep. John Conyers, Jr. jconyers@hr.house.gov
Rep. Vernon Ehlers congehlr@hr.house.gov
Rep. Peter Hoekstra tellhoek@hr.house.gov
Rep. Lynn Rivers lrivers@hr.house.gov
Rep. Nick Smith repsmith@hr.house.gov
Rep. Bart Stupak stupak@hr.house.gov
Rep. Fred Upton talk2fsu@hr.house.gov

Minnesota
Sen. Rod Grams mail_grams@grams.senate.gov
Sen. Paul Wellstone senator@wellstone.senate.gov
Rep. Gil Gutknecht gil@hr.house.gov
Rep. Bill Luther tellbill@hr.house.gov
Rep. David Minge dminge@hr.house.gov
Rep. James Oberstar oberstar@hr.house.gov
Rep. Collin Peterson tocollin@hr.house.gov
Rep. Jim Ramstad mn03@hr.house.gov
Rep. Martin Sabo msabo@hr.house.gov
Rep. Bruce Vento vento@hr.house.gov

Mississippi
Sen. Thad Cochran senator@cochran.senate.gov
Sen. Trent Lott sentorlott@lott.senate.gov
Rep. Bennie Thompson ms2nd@hr.house.gov
Rep. Roger Wicker rwicker@hr.hosue.gov

Missouri
Sen. John Ashcroft john_ashcroft@ashcroft.senate.gov
Sen. Christopher Bond kit_bond@bond.senate.gov
Rep. Jo Ann Emerson jemerson@hr.house.gov
Rep. Richard Gephardt demldr@hr.house.gov
Rep. James Talent talentmo@hr.house.gov

Montana
Sen. Max Baucus max@baucus.senate.gov
Sen. Conrad Burns conrad_burns@burns.senate.gov

Nebraska
Sen. Charles Hagel chuck_hagel@hagel.senate.gov
Sen. Bob Kerrey bob@kerrey.senate.gov
Rep. Jon Cristensen talk2jon@hr.house.gov

Nevada
Sen. Harry Reid senator_reid@reid.senate.gov
Sen. Richard Bryan senator@bryan.senate.gov
Rep. John Ensign ensign@hr.house.gov

New Hampshire
Sen. Judd Gregg mailbox@gregg.senate.gov
Sen. Bob Smith opinion@smith.senate.gov
Rep. Charles Bass cbass@hr.house.gov

New Jersey
Sen. Frank Lautenberg frank_lautenberg@lautenberg.senate.gov
Sen. Robert Toricelli senator_torricelli@torricelli.senate.gov
Rep. Robert Andrews randrews@hr.house.gov
Rep. Bob Franks franksnj@hr.house.gov
Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen njeleven@hr.house.gov

New Mexico
Sen. Jeff Bingaman senator_bingaman@bingaman.senate.gov
Sen. Pete Domenici senator_domenici@domenici.senate.gov

New York
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan senator@dpm.senate.gov
Sen. Alfonse D'Amato senator_al@damato.senate.gov
Rep. Sherwood Boehlert boehlert@hr.house.gov
Rep. Eliot Engel engeline@hr.house.gov
Rep. Michael Forbes mpforbes@hr.house.gov
Rep. Maurice Hinchey hinchey@hr.house.gov
Rep. Sue Kelly dearsue@hr.house.gov
Rep. Peter King peteking@hr.house.gov
Rep. Rick Lazio lazio@hr.house.gov
Rep. Nita Lowey nitamail@hr.house.gov
Rep. Carolyn Maloney cmaloney@hr.house.gov
Rep. Thomas Manton tmanton@hr.house.gov
Rep. Michael McNulty mmcnulty@hr.house.gov
Rep. Susan Molinari molinari@hr.house.gov
Rep. Jerrold Nadler nadler@hr.house.gov
Rep. Bill Paxon bpaxon@hr.house.gov
Rep. Charles Rangel rangel@hr.house.gov
Rep. Jose Serrano jserrano@hr.house.gov
Rep. Jim Walsh jwalsh@hr.house.gov

North Carolina
Sen. Lauch Faircloth senator@faircloth.senate.gov
Sen. Jesse Helms jesse_helms@helms.senate.gov
Rep. Cass Ballenger cassmail@hr.house.gov
Rep. Richard Burr mail2nc5@hr.house.gov
Rep. Sue Myrick myrick@hr.house.gov
Rep. Charles Taylor chtaylor@hr.house.gov
Rep. Mel Watt melmail@hr.house.gov

North Dakota
Sen. Kent Conrad senator@conrad.senate.gov
Sen. Byron Dorgan senator@dorgan.senate.gov
Rep. Earl Pomeroy epomeroy@hr.house.gov

Ohio
Sen. Mike DeWine senator_dewine@dewine.senate.gov
Sen. John Glenn senator_glenn@glenn.senate.gov
Rep. Sherrod Brown sherrod@hr.house.gov
Rep. John Kasich budget@hr.house.gov
Rep. Michael Oxley oxley@hr.house.gov
Rep. Rob Portman portmail@hr.house.gov
Rep. Deborah Pryce pryce15@hr.house.gov
Rep. James Traficant telljim@hr.house.gov

Oklahoma
Sen. James Inhofe
Sen. Don Nickles senator@nickles.senate.gov
Rep. Ernest J. Istook, Jr. istook@hr.house.gov

Oregon
Sen. Gordon Smith oregon@gsmith.senate.gov
Sen. Ron Wyden senator@wyden.senate.gov
Rep. Peter DeFazio pdefazio@hr.house.gov
Rep. Elizabeth Furse furseor1@hr.house.gov

Pennsylvania
Sen. Rick Santorum senator@santorum.senate.gov
Sen. Arlen Specter senator_specter@specter.senate.gov
Rep. Jon Fox jonfox@hr.house.gov
Rep. Paul Kanjorski kanjo@hr.house.gov
Rep. Paul McHale mchale@hr.house.gov
Rep. John Murtha murtha@hr.house.gov
Rep. Curt Weldon curtpa7@hr.house.gov

Rhode Island
Sen. John Chafee senator_chafee@chafee.senate.gov
Sen. Jack Reed

South Carolina
Sen. Ernest Hollings senator@hollings.senate.gov
Sen. Strom Thurmond senator@thurmond.senate.gov
Rep. James E. Clyburn jclyburn@hr.house.gov
Rep. Bob Inglis binglis@hr.house.gov
Rep. Mark Sanford sanford@hr.house.gov
Rep. John Spratt jspratt@hr.house.gov

South Dakota
Sen. Tom Daschle tom_daschle@daschle.senate.gov
Sen. Tim Johnson tim@johnson.senate.gov

Tennessee
Sen. Bill Frist senator_frist@frist.senate.gov
Sen. Fred Thompson senator_thompson@thompson.senate.gov
Rep. Bob Clement clement@hr.house.gov
Rep. J.J. Duncan jjduncan@hr.house.gov
Rep. Harold Ford hford@hr.house.gov
Rep. Bart Gordon bart@hr.house.gov

Texas
Sen. Phil Gramm
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison senator@hutchison.senate.gov
Rep. Joe Barton barton06@hr.house.gov
Rep. Lloyd Doggett doggett@hr.house.gov
Rep. Martin Frost frost@hr.house.gov
Rep. Henry Gonzales bnkgdems@hr.house.gov
Rep. Gene Green ggreen@hr.house.gov
Rep. Sam Johnson samtx03@hr.house.gov

Utah
Sen. Robert Bennett senator@bennett.senate.gov
Sen. Orrin Hatch senator_hatch@hatch.senate.gov

Vermont
Sen. Jim Jeffords vermont@jeffords.senate.gov
Sen. Patrick Leahy senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov
Rep. Bernie Sanders bsanders@igc.apc.org

Virginia
Sen. Charles Robb senator@robb.senate.gov
Sen. John Warner senator@warner.senate.gov
Rep. Rick Boucher ninthnet@hr.house.gov
Rep. Thomas Davis tomdavis@hr.house.gov
Rep. Bob Goodlatte talk2bob@hr.house.gov
Rep. Jim Moran repmoran@hr.house.gov
Rep. Owen Pickett opickett@hr.house.gov

Washington
Sen. Slade Gorton senator_gorton@gorton.senate.gov
Sen. Patty Murray senator_murray@murray.senate.gov
Rep. Jennifer Dunn dunnwa08@hr.house.gov
Rep. George Nethercutt grnwa05@hr.house.gov
Rep. Linda Smith asklinda@hr.house.gov
Rep. Rick White repwhite@hr.house.gov

West Virginia
Sen. Robert Byrd senator_byrd@byrd.senate.gov
Sen. John Rockefeller III senator@rockefeller.senate.gov
Rep. Nick Rahall nrahall@hr.house.gov
Rep. Bob Wise bobwise@hr.house.gov

Wisconsin
Sen. Russell Feingold senator@feingold.senate.gov
Sen. Herb Kohl senator_kohl@kohl.senate.gov
Rep. Thomas Barrett telltom@hr.house.gov
Rep. Jerry Kleczka jerry4wi@hr.house.gov
Rep. Scott Klug badger02@hr.house.gov
Rep. Mark Neumann mneumann@hr.house.gov
Rep. Tom Petri tompetri@hr.house.gov
Rep. James Sensenbrenner sensen09@hr.house.gov

Wyoming
Sen. Craig Thomas craig@thomas.senate.gov
Sen. Mike Enzi senator@enzi.senate.gov

Reza Pahlavi

Fax numbers & email addresses of His Excellency Reza Pahlavi's Secretariat

P.O. Box 566 Falls Church, VA 22040 USA
E-mail: rpsec@postmark.net

Telephone: (703) 827-0928

Fax: (703) 827-9101

URL : www.rezapahlavi.org

Farah Pahlavi

Email addresses of Her Excellency Shahbano Farah Pahlavi

E-mail: fpahlavi@hotmail.com

URL : www.farahpahlavi.org

Channel One

Email: info@channelonetv.com

Telephone:1-818-226-6200

URL: www.channelonetv.com


IRAN Daneshjoo

Email: iranstudents@hotmail.com

Telephone: +1 (972) 504-6864

URL: www.iran-daneshjoo.org

Free Countries Dignitaries



1) United States of America:

a) His Excellency Mr. George W. Bush President of the USA
Fax # +1 (202) 456-2461 and +1 (202) 456-2823

b) The Honorable Mr. Collin Powell, Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs ; Fax # +1 (202) 647-0244

c) The Honorable Mr. Michael Parmly, Assistant Secretary of State for
Democracy, Human Rights & Labors; Fax # +1 (202) 647-0244


2) Czech republic:

The Honorable Vaclav Havel, President of Czech Republic
Fax # +42/02/243-10851


3) The Netherland/Holland:

a) Het Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken; Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Fax # +31/70/348-4848

b) De Minister President W. Kok
Fax # +31/70/365-1808

c) A. H. Korthals, Minister of Justice
Fax # Netherlands +31/70/370-7937 http://www.minjust.nl/

d) Stephen van Wersch, First Secretary of Netherlands Embassy in USA
Fax # +1 (202) 364-4213
eMail wersch@oo.was.minbuza.nl


4) France/French Republic:

a) Son Excellence Mr. Jacques Chirac le President de la Republique Francaise
(Palais de l'Elysee); Fax # +33/1/474-22-465

b) Monsieur Lionel Jospin, Le Premier Minstre de la Republique Francaise
(Hotel Matignon); Fax # +33/1/454-41-572

c) Mr. Laurent Fabius, le Pr鳩dent de l'Assembl饠Nationale Francaise
(Palais Bourbon); Fax # +33/1/406-35-993

d) Monsieur Rene Maunory, le President du Senat de la Republique Francaise
(Palais Luxembourg); Fax # +33/1/423-42-677
eMail r.monory@senat.fr

e) Monsieur Hubert Vedrine, Ministre des Affaires Etrangeres de la
Republique Francaise (Quai d'Orsay); Fax # +33/1/431-74-753

f) L'Ambassadeur de La Republique Francaise, Ambassade de France aux USA
Fax # +1 (202) 944-6166

g) Monsieur Jacques Tiberi, Le Maire de Paris (Hotel de Ville)
Fax # +33/1/427-66-795


l) French Companies having interests in Iran
- Jean-Martin Folz, Pr鳩dent de PSA Peugeot Citro뮼br> Fax # 011/33/1-4066-5414


- Total Energie
Fax #011/33/4-7819-4483

Corporate Communications Division, Mr. Michel Hourcard
Phone # 011/33/1- 4135-5229
Fax # 011/33/1-4135-5220
eMail investorel@total.calva.net

Tour TOTAL 24, Cours Michelet
92069 Paris La D馥nse Cedex
Phone # 011/33/1- 4135-40 00 (Switchboard)
Fax # 011/33/1-4135-2827

New York Office, Robert Hammond
TOTAL American Services
1585 Broadway, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10036-USA
Phone # 1 (212) 969-2810
Fax #1 (212) 969 29 79
eMail totalnyc@aol.com

- Alstom Energy Systems (SA)
Fax #011/33/1-3465-4399, 011/33/1-4755-2614

Affaires internationales
Fax #011/33/1-4755-2110

- Renault, Siege Social
Fax # 011/33/1-4423-7750


5) Great Britain:

Amnesty International Phone # 0171-4135719
Article 19 Phone # 0171-7131356
British Foreign Office Phone # 0171-8392417
CODIR Phone # 0191-2964382
Tony Blair Phone # 0171-9250918


6) Deutschland/Germany:

a) German President, His Excellency Mr. Johannes Rau
eMail johannes.rau@spd.de

b) The German Chancelor, His Excellency Gerhard Schroeder
eMail gerhard.schroeder@spd.de

c) President of Bundestag (German National Assembly) His Excellency
Mr. Wolfgang Thierse
email vorzimmer@praesb.bundestag.dbp.de

d) President of Bundesrat (German Senat) His Excellency Mr. Roland Koch
Fax # 011/49/ 228-9100- 400

e) Board of managment of SPD Party (SPD-Parteivorstand)
Fax # 011/49/30 -2599-1297
eMail parteivorstand@spd.de

f) Federal ministry of justice (Bundesministerium der Justiz) Prof. Dr. Herta Daeubler-Gmelin
Fax # 011/49/228-4525 (Bonn), 011/49/30-20259525 (Berlin)

g) Federal ministry of interior (Bundesministerium fnnern) Minister of the interior
His Excellency Mr. Otto Shily
Fax # 011/49/30-3981-2926
email posteingang@bmi.bund400.de

h) Federal ministry of Foreign Affair (Ausw䲴iges Amt) His Excellency Mr. Joshka Fischer
Fax #011/49/228-173402
eMail poststelle@auswaertiges-amt.de

i) Federal ministray of Trade (Bundesministerium firtschaft und Technologie)
His Excellency Mr. Werner Mr
Fax #011/49/228-615-4436 (Berlin)
eMail 100536.2544@compuserve.com

j) Parliamentary Secretary of state in ministry of trade His Excellency Siegmar Mosdorf
eMail siegmar.mosdorf@t-online.de


7 ) Spain/Espana:

a) H.M. King Juan Carlos Palacio de la Zarzuela 28071 - Madrid
Phone # 34-1-5992424
Website: http://www.casareal.es/casareal/

b) Prime Minister Excmo. Sr. Don Jos頍arznar Presidente del
Gobierno Complejo de la Moncloa Edificio Semillas 28071 - Madrid
Fax #011/34-1-3900329
Phone # 011/34-1-3353535

c) Justice Minister Excma. Sra. Doᡠ?argarita Mariscal de Gante
eMail webmaster@mju.es

d) Low Chamber Excmo. Sr. Don Federico Trillo Figueroa Mart Conde
Presidente del Congreso de los Diputados Carrera de San
Jer㮩?o, 2 28071 - Madrid
eMail Federico.trillo@presidente.congreso.es

e) High Chamber Excma. Sra. Doᡠ?speranza Aguirre Gil de Biedma Presidenta del
Senado Plaza de la Marina Espaᯬ?, 8 ; 28071 - Madrid
Fax # 011/34-1-5381003
Phone # 011/34-1.5381000
eMail Esperanza.aguirre@senado.es


8 ) Belgium:

Address Belgian Embassy U.S. OF AMERICA
3330, Garfield Street
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Miss World Canada Nazanin Afshin-Jam Petition Has Become One Of The Most Active - Top 10 Petitions List in the www.petitiononline.com Site. PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION NOW and INFORM OTHERS ASAP



Petition to Save Nazanin
http://www.petitiononline.com/Nazanin/petition.html


Remember This Name, One Nazanin for Another -National Review Online Q&A by Kathryn Jean Lopez


Petition 19: Save Nazanin
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http://www.petitiononline.com/Nazanin/petition.html

To: To: The Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan,The United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights, Louise Arbour,The Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, and The Head of the Judiciary of IRI Ayatollah Mahmoud Has

We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned for 18-year-old Nazanin who faces execution by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

On January 3, 2006, 18-year-old Nazanin was sentenced to death for murder by court in Iran after she reportedly admitted fatally stabbing one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 16-year-old niece in a park in Karaj (a suburb of Tehran) in March 2005. She was seventeen at the time. Her sentence is subject to review by the Court of Appeal, and if upheld, to confirmation by the Supreme Court.

According to reports in the Iranian newspaper E?temaad, Nazanin told the court that three men had approached her and her niece, forced them to the ground and attempted to rape them. Seeking to defend her niece and herself, Nazanin stabbed one man in the hand with a knife that she possessed. As the men continued their attack, she stabbed another of the men in the chest, which eventually caused his death. She reportedly told the court ?I wanted to defend myself and my niece. I did not want to kill that boy. At the heat of the moment I did not know what to do because no one came to our help?. She was nevertheless sentenced to the maximum punishment possible under the law, death by hanging.

Urgent action is needed to help save a young life whose only crime was an attempt to defend herself. Nazanin and many like her are caught between two undesirable options. On one hand, Iranian Penal Code severely limits the possibility of using ?self-defense? as a legitimate defence to aggression. On the other hand, if Nazanin had allowed the rape to take place, she could still be imprisoned, flogged or stoned for having sex outside of marriage unless four male witnesses to the actual rape would testify on her behalf.

Moreover, Iran is a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and is therefore under obligation NOT to impose the death penalty on those under the age of 18. Nevertheless, Amnesty International has recorded 18 executions of child offenders in Iran since 1990. In 2005 alone, at least eight executions of child offenders were recorded. Nazanin was 17 years old at the time of commission of the offense and therefore Iran is in breach.

We urge that the death sentence imposed on Nazanin be commuted immediately;
We urge the authorities to carry out a thorough review of the case, in particular the limits of self-defense as detailed in the Iranian Penal Code;
We urge the authorities to ensure that the victim?s family is made aware of its right, under Islamic law, to request a pardon of the condemned;
We appeal to the Islamic Republic of Iran to honor its commitment to the ICCPR and ICC, to which they are a state party.


Sincerely,
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The Save Nazanin Petition to The Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan,The United Nations High
Commissioner of Human Rights, Louise Arbour,The Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah
Seyed Ali Khamenei, and The Head of the Judiciary of IRI Ayatollah Mahmoud
Has was created by and written by Nazanin Afshin-Jam (info@nazanin.ca).
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 9:51 pm    Post subject: IRAN. PETITION TO SAVE NAZANIN Reply with quote

Nazanin
IRAN. PETITION TO SAVE NAZANIN


http://www.handsoffcain.org/azioniurgenti/

To the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan
To United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour
To the President in office of the Council of the EU, Wolfgang Schüssel



The year that has just begun has been marked in Iran by news of a death sentence handed down to a girl, Nazanin, for murder.
Nazanin allegedly stabbed to death one of two men that had tried to rape her in Teheran in March 2005, when she was still only 17 years of age.
Nazanin’s case is one of many of minors being condemned to death in Iran, a totalitarian and misogynist regime with a disregard even for the most fundamental of human rights, particularly with relation to women.
Locked up in the juvenile prisons of Teheran and Rajai-Shahr are at least 30 people sentenced to death who were under 18 years of age at the time of the crime.
At least eight minors were hanged in 2005 in direct violation of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The Iranian regime, which oppresses its citizens with unheard of violence, also represents a threat to the security of the international community as demonstrated by its atomic ambitions and the public announcements by its President against the existence of the state of Israel.
For Hands Off Cain the death penalty in Iran is first of all a battle for the affirmation of human rights and the constitution of a democratic state.
For us democracy in Iran also starts with the young life of Nazanin and of all the forgotten women on death rows in the mullahs’ regime.
For this, we ask You, as the highest representatives of the International Community, to work in bringing about respect in Iran for the life of its citizens and to assure the right to freedom and democracy, fundamental elements of the international community of which today we all feel an active part.


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PostPosted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:02 am    Post subject: Canadian beauty queen tries to save Iranian woman’s life Reply with quote

Canadian beauty queen tries to save Iranian woman’s life

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2006%5C04%5C09%5Cstory_9-4-2006_pg4_20

VANCOUVER: A Canadian beauty queen’s campaign to save the life of an Iranian teenager is drawing worldwide interest, with more than 7,000 people signing a petition.

The petition, addressed to the United Nations and the Islamic Republic of Iran, asks that the death sentence of a young woman named Nazanin be commuted.

Amnesty International has said the woman was 17 when she “reportedly admitted stabbing to death one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 16-year-old niece in a park in Karaj in March 2005.” Now 18, Nazanin was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by hanging. Amnesty International and human rights workers in the case said they have been unable to contact her family or lawyers, and do not know if legal appeals are scheduled.

“It is a horrific story, and her name being Nazanin shocked me,” said Nazanin Afshin-Jam, who came as a baby with her refugee family to this western Canadian city, fleeing Iran’s revolution. afp
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