Delara Darabi executed in Iran

[purrsian_cat]

I don't know how else to say this.

[ghalibaf]

my post had nothing to do with how i feel or what i think, i was stating what the law is in iran.

[ghalibaf]

just so you know i had more in my previous sentence, it was edited by mods.

[Dokhtar Bandari]

my post had nothing to do with how i feel or what i think, i was stating what the law is in iran.

Not true. You said don't blame it on the government, that is a thought process. Therefore you were in agreement with them. And why not blame the government, didn't people like you blamed everything on Shah and called him a dictator? This government of yours makes these atrocious rules and forgets the laws of God, which is reverence for life and respect for humanity. Do you even know what Allah stands for? I tell you so you know, it stands for Breath/Nafas/Life. Reason with yourself a bit as to what that means. Have you even read a sentence in Quran which you understood? no you have not...have you ever question why these Arabic rules are shoved down our throat? no, you have a blind obedience like a boz.

You support these power mongers and evil doers and forget that very first sentence in Quran " in the name of the God Allah who is all merciful". What kind of merciful God gives life and then makes rules that would eliminate that life? God does not, Man does. So you are worshiping Man and not God.

Get a life dude, go learn and then come talk to me. I have stooped as low as I can in conversing with you.

[Dokhtare_Malous]

oh my God what happened to this innocent girl akharesh? i feel soo sorry for our government this is not fair its very sad and its a shame

[Dokhtar Bandari]

oh my God what happened to this innocent girl akharesh? i feel soo sorry for our government this is not fair its very sad and its a shame

She is sentenced to death, like many thousand other teenagers in Iran.

[Dokhtar Bandari]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co9mwq7owIQ&feature=related

[DokhtarIrooni]

[ghalibaf]

Not true. You said don't blame it on the government, that is a thought process. Therefore you were in agreement with them. And why not blame the government, didn't people like you blamed everything on Shah and called him a dictator? This government of yours makes these atrocious rules and forgets the laws of God, which is reverence for life and respect for humanity. Do you even know what Allah stands for? I tell you so you know, it stands for Breath/Nafas/Life. Reason with yourself a bit as to what that means. Have you even read a sentence in Quran which you understood? no you have not...have you ever question why these Arabic rules are shoved down our throat? no, you have a blind obedience like a boz.

You support these power mongers and evil doers and forget that very first sentence in Quran " in the name of the God Allah who is all merciful". What kind of merciful God gives life and then makes rules that would eliminate that life? God does not, Man does. So you are worshiping Man and not God.

Get a life dude, go learn and then come talk to me. I have stooped as low as I can in conversing with you.

LOL i can see you have psychological problems, probably due to a hard youth im guessing..that is if your still not 12.

Dont talk to me about religion, oomadi roe internet jav gerefted. Iv discussed with people like you before but face to face, Fortunetly for me i cant be bothered to read your BS so feel free to carry on, when your done dont forget to flush.

[khanoomi]

ghalibaf avalan ke taghsire dolatam hast chon ona hanoz tahghighateshon kamel nashode ghezavat kardan.
dovoman inke hala begim in yedone taghsire dolat nist on 7 ta bahai ke alan to zendanan chi taghsire ameye mane in hame adame digaro dar mizanano sangsar mikonan bad yadeshon miofte yaro bigonah bode.
paye adame bigonah ta balaye dar mire tanabe daram mire dore gardanesh daresham mizanan bad mifahmam taraf bigonah bode.
bad nist age khodeto bezari jaye baghie bad nazar bedi

[Rasputin]

Iranian authorities executed Delara Darabi in Rasht Central Prison on Friday morning. She is the second person to be executed this year after being convicted of a crime she was alleged to have commited while still under 18, Amnesty International has revealed.

"Amnesty International is outraged at the execution of Delara Darabi, and particularly at the news that her lawyer was not informed about the execution, despite the legal requirement that he should receive 48 hours' notice," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme.

"This appears to have been a cynical move on the part of the authorities to avoid domestic and international protests which might have saved Delara Darabi's life."

Delara Darabi was executed despite her having been given a two-month stay of execution by the Head of the Judiciary on 19 April.

"This indicates that even decisions by the Head of the Judiciary carry no weight and are disregarded in the provinces," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui.

Delara Darabi was convicted of murdering a relative in 2003 when she was 17. She initially confessed to the murder, believing she could save her boyfriend from the gallows, but later retracted her confession. She was detained at Rasht Prison in northern Iran since her arrest in 2003, during which time she developed a significant talent as a painter.

Amnesty International does not consider her trial to have been fair, as the courts later refused to consider new evidence which the lawyer said would have proved she could not have committed the murder.

Amnesty International had campaigned to save her life since her case came to light in 2006, urging the Iranian authorities to commute her death sentence and calling for a her re-trial in proceedings that meet international standards.

The execution of Delara Darabi brings the number of executions in Iran this year to 140. She is the second woman known to have been executed. Iran has executed at least forty two juvenile offenders since 1990, eight of them in 2008 and one on 21 January 2009, in total disregard of international law, which unequivocally bans the execution of those convicted of crimes committed when under the age of 18.

[Rasputin]

[khanoomi]

Emroz sobh delara darabi dar zendane rasht edam shod

[Rasputin]

Iranian authorities on Friday morning executed a woman convicted of a crime she was alleged to have committed while still under 18, Amnesty International revealed.

Delara Darabi was put to death in Rasht Central Prison, becoming the second woman to be executed in the Islamic republic this year.

Amnesty International said it was "outraged" at the execution, drawing particular attention to the fact that her lawyer was not informed about it, despite the legal requirement that he should receive 48 hours' notice.

"This appears to have been a cynical move on the part of the authorities to avoid domestic and international protests which might have saved Delara Darabi's life," said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programm.

Darabi was executed despite her having been given a two-month stay of execution by the Head of the Judiciary on April. 19, which Sahraoui said indicates "that even decisions by the Head of the Judiciary carry no weight and are disregarded in the provinces."

Darabi was convicted of murdering a relative in 2003 when she was 17. She initially confessed to the murder, believing she could save her boyfriend from the gallows, but later retracted her confession. She was being detained at Rasht Prison in northern Iran since her arrest in 2003.

Amnesty claimed the trial was not fair, citing the court's refusal to consider new evidence, which her lawyer said would have proved her innocence.

The organization had campaigned for Darabi's life since her case emerged in 2006, urging the Iranian authorities to commute her death sentence and calling for a re-trial in proceedings that meet international standards.

Darabi's death brings the number of executions in Iran in 2009 to 140, and she is the second woman known to have been executed this year.

Iran has executed at least 42 juvenile offenders since 1990, eight of them in 2008 and one on 21 January 2009, in total disregard of international law, which unequivocally bans the execution of those convicted of crimes committed when under the age of 18, Amnesty said.

[Rasputin]

Iran has executed a 23-year-old woman, Delara Darabi, for a crime committed when she was a minor.

Darabi’s lawyer Abdolsamad Khoramshah confirmed to Radio Farda that she was executed this morning in prison in the northwestern city of Rasht.

Darabi was arrested when she was 17 years old in connection with the murder of a relative. At that time, she and her 19-year-old boyfriend, Amir Hossein Sotoudeh, tried to rob the house of her father's 58-year-old female cousin, Mahin, and the cousin was killed.

Darabi initially confessed to the murder. But she later retracted her confession, saying she had made it because Sotoudeh told her she could not be executed for murder because she was underage.

In an interview in April, Darabi's lawyer Khoramshah told Radio Farda that "it is very unlikely that the murder was committed by a girl with a frail body. A strong young man was there. How is it possible that the murder was done by a weak girl?"

Sotoudeh was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for complicity in the murder.

The head of the judiciary had recently delayed Darabi’s execution to allow her family to negotiate with close kin of the victim in the hope that they might accept payment in lieu of capital punishment in the case.

High-Profile Case

Human rights groups including Amnesty International had urged the Iranian authorities to commute her death sentence because she was a minor at the time of the crime.

Darabi's case has alarmed human rights activists, and her tragic fate has made her a symbol of the dozens of juvenile offenders who currently face execution in Iran.

Iran is one of the few countries that executes people for crimes committed as juveniles.

Many Iranians campaigned, through Facebook and Twitter, for Darabi's life to be spared. She reportedly attempted to commit suicide in her cell in 2007.

On death row, Darabi told the story of her life through her paintings, most of them dark. An exhibition of her paintings was held in Tehran in 2006.

Iran is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Those accords prohibit the execution of people convicted of crimes committed when they were under 18.

In a 2007 report, Amnesty International described Iran as the "last executioner of children," which it defines as anyone under the age of 18.