24 hours to save Sakineh - PLEASE TAKE ACTION TO TRY TO STOP THIS EXECUTION!

[bintofbohemia]

sorry, wasn't too sure where to post this and am in a rush but I just wanted to post this quickly - please take action if you have time!

24 hours to save Sakineh

Have you heard that Iran could kill Sakineh Ashtiani today?

I've just sent an emergency message to Iran's allies and key UN powers urging them to intervene and help safe Sakineh's life. Please read the email below and join me in sending a message now:

www.avaaz.org/en/24h_to_save_sakineh/98.php?CLICKTF

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Dear Friends,

Today, Iran could execute Sakineh Ashtiani.

Our global outcry stopped her unjust stoning sentence in July. Now we have 24 hours to save her life.

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 and send this to everyone it only takes three minutes and we are her last chance:

www.avaaz.org/en/24h_to_save_sakineh/98.php?CLICKTF

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 tremendous 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 jeoprady, 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. The regime has now 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 tomorrow is execution day.

Persistent campaigning led Iran to drop Sakineh's stoning sentence and captured the attention of leaders in countries with influence on Iran, like Turkey and Brazil. Now let's urgently raise our voices to stop her killing and inhumane treatment and free her, her lawyer, her son and the jailed German journalists.

www.avaaz.org/en/24h_to_save_sakineh/98.php?CLICKTF

A massive public outcry has the moral authority to stop heinous crimes. Let's use these 24 hours to send a clear message -- the world is watching and we all stand together today to save Sakineh's life and against injustice everywhere.

With hope and determination,

Alice, Stephanie, Pascal, Giulia, Benjamin and the whole of the Avaaz team

Sources:

The Islamic regime of Iran plans to execute Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani immediately
stopstonningnow.com/wpress/4194

Sakineh hanging imminent
www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/fears-that-alleged-adulterers-execution-by-hanging-is-imminent/story-e6frg6so-1225946610965

Iranian woman could be stoned Wednesday
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hipKgm5UqJOxciOi1f07BwbfRgFg?docId=CNG.6ef6de7af5f33847d19e690e61087c73.811

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani: A life in the Balance (Amnesty International)
www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/MDE13/089/2010/en/589bd56b-49ac-4028-8dc6-abd903ac9bac/mde130892010en.pdf

Done - awful and dreadful case.

Done.

Thank you - bumping again.

I don't know if it's too late by now though.

Currently discussing on Radio 4 - she is still alive but still under sentence of death by stoning

What - they've brought the stoning back? Surely not?!

According to Radio 4 (so it must be true) they stoning was only put back not changed to another punishment. They were also saying how she'd already been flogged for adultery.

The main issue is that she is working class without a voice, if she were higher class the case would never have been brought.

A spokes person from amnesty also said that these cases are common but people never get to hear of them (even within the country itself).

done

Done. Thanks for posting this, OP.

Yes, glad you posted this here. We've sent emails from work too.

Does anyone know what has happened with this? I've searched everywhere and I can't find an update?

I was also wondering that, bintofbohemia.

Another thing that has been bothering me is that I rushed to send an email to try to stop an execution in Iran, but it has never occurred to me to do the same to stop the US executing people. Double standards. Bad Grannie.

I wonder if it's because it's adultery she's accused of, and there's such doubt about the murder charge? But equally in the US they make mistakes too.

Really don't know where I stand on this. Of course I don't want the poor woman executed - but nor do I want there to be a single person waiting for death in the electric chair.

Done

Alicatte - do you mean she's been execured?

I can't find anything about it. I just meant that I'd posted a message - again. It has gone horribly silent.

Still no verdict see here

Dear friends,

Our global outcry worked and Sakineh is still alive! The next step is to fund international experts to strengthen Sakineh's legal defense and work with officials in Iran to resolve this shameful situation. Let's build on our 900,000-strong outcry and fund the next steps to win her freedom once and for all. Click below to help:

Sakineh is still alive! We stopped her stoning sentence, postponed an attempt to hang her quietly and let the Iranian government know that the world is watching and outraged. Now is the time to save Sakineh for good.

Last week over 900,000 of us sent messages and made calls to key government officials. But now we're at an impasse and have to give Iran a way out of this dilemma. The next step towards freeing Sakineh is to fund international experts to strengthen her legal defense and work with officials in Iran to resolve this shameful situation. If thousands of us donate in the next three days we can hire an elite team of advocates, keep campaigning to free Sakineh and work on behalf of others facing brutal injustice. Click on the link below to support Sakineh:

secure.avaaz.org/en/whats_next_for_sakineh/?vl

Iran has tried everything to keep Sakineh in jail. They accused her of adultery and sentenced her to stoning despite the fact that the alleged adultery took place after her husband?s death. They sentenced her to death for the murder of her husband even though she had already been acquitted, and another man convicted and sentenced for the murder. They even arrested her son and lawyer and forced the rest of the legal team into exile. After massive international pressure, Iranian officials must be desperate for a face-saving way out of this mess..

And now, for the first time, there is dissent within Iran from Conservative forces about the treatment of Sakineh and the way her case has been handled by the Iranian government. Some are calling for her acquittal of all charges.

A team of diplomatic and legal experts could build on this dissent and work within Iran to secure Sakineh's release. Our call, 900,000 voices strong, in combination with pressure from inside Iran for Sakineh's release is the best chance we have to save Sakineh. Now is the moment to give whatever we can to end her brutal persecution:

secure.avaaz.org/en/whats_next_for_sakineh/?vl

In the campaign against the death penalty worldwide, Sakineh's survival is an important beacon of hope. We have shown unprecedented support for her through an explosive petition, strategic ads in Iranian-allied countries and a flood of messages to world leaders generating an international outcry. Join us in this next step towards freeing Sakineh, ending stoning, and eliminating the death penalty across the globe.

Oh thank goodness. So glad to hear she is still alive.

she was convicted we should have death penalty here over 85% of population support its return

I'm not sure how long they'll keep this up, saying they'll execute her and then not doing, it must be hell for her.

thereiver

The reiver: What 85% is that? Do you have a link?