Well, I'm just hearing about this and frankly I'm beyond disturbed:
From here
On Saturday, January 27, 2007, Iran’s Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Delara Darabi for a second time. Delara, who is now 20 years old, faces death by public hanging for a murder that took place when she was 17 years old. According to newspaper and court reports, after murdering a woman related to Delara, Delara’s 19 year old boyfriend, Amir Hossein, convinced Delara to admit responsibility for the murder to protect him from execution. Apparently, both teenagers believed that because Delara was under the age of 18, she could not be sentenced to death. This belief proved to be devastatingly false.
With complete disregard for its obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) , and despite overwhelming evidence of Delara’s innocence, as well as the teenager’s repeated denials about having had any role in the commission of the crime, a court in the city of Rasht found the girl-child guilty of murder based solely on her initial claim of responsibility and sentenced her to death by hanging. Since that ruling, the Islamic regime has repeatedly demonstrated patent disregard for its promises to the international community and to the rights of Iranian children by upholding Delara’s death sentence.
WOW. I'm glad I slipped on my Feministing boycott a second time. Has anyone else heard of this? What the fuck.
That's...all sorts of fucked up is that that is right there. Prosecute the REAL killer, damnit.
There is seriously not a lot of time on this so, to help you can sign the petition, email Them In Charge, and if I have any good English folk out there, there's gonna be a protest. Protest!
This is seriously bothering the fuck out me. I do not think this woman deserves to die. I don't know how involved in the crime she was but I absolutely do NOT believe in hanging her FOR ANY REASON.
