URGENT: Sakineh will be executed on Nov 3 – Join us to save her life

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4international say in relation to the planned murder of Sakineh:

Solidarity with the Kurds and all those minority oppressed groups who fight against this Iranian fascist regime!

Solidarity with Israel and all Jews who face a Holocaust at the hands of antisemitism! And from those same Fascists who intend to kill poor Sakineh!

Solidarity with this poor, defenceless woman from Iran Sakineh, locked up and at the mercy of these scum Fascists led by Ahmadinejad!

We would and will do everything to help but in honesty the only way to defend these poor and suffering Iranian people is for the IDF to strike against the Fascists with everything it has got (Trotsky in 1933 advocated moving the Red Army against Hitlers Nazis!

This is a press release

ACT NOW

PLEASE NOTE:

WE WILL BE GATHERING AT THE EMBASSY OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN IN PARIS AT 2PM (4 Avenue d’Iéna 75116 Paris) AND MARCHING TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN BRUSSELS. JOIN US. WE MUST SAVE SAKINEH’S LIFE AND SECURE HER FREEDOM AND THAT OF HER SON, LAWYER AND THE TWO GERMAN JOURNALISTS. AND WE MUST END STONING NOW!

According to news received by the International Committee against Stoning and International Committee against Execution on 1 November 2010, the authorities in Tehran have given the go ahead to Tabriz prison for the execution of Iran stoning case Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. It has been reported that she is to be executed this Wednesday 3 November.

We had previously reported that the casefile regarding the murder case of Ms Ashtiani’s husband had been seized from her lawyer’s office, Houtan Kian, and found missing from the prosecutor’s Oskoo branch office so as to stitch Ms Ashtiani up with trumped up murder charges.  [Another man has already served a prison sentence and is now free for her husband’s murder.]

Ms Ashtiani’s son, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, and her lawyer, Houtan Kian, have warned of the regime’s plan to do so on many occasions. With the arrest of Ms Ashtiani’s son and lawyer on 10 October and her not having had any visitation rights since 11 August and after fabricating a new case against her, the “Human Rights Commission” of the regime has announced that: ‘according to the existing evidence, her guilt has been confirmed.’ In fact, the regime has created a new scenario in order to expedite her execution.

In other news, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh and Houtan Kian have been severely tortured in order to obtain confessions against Sakineh and themselves since their arrests on 10 October along with two German journalists. The initial interrogations by the Ministry of Intelligence have now been completed and the casefile sent to the National Prosecutor General and Judiciary Spokesperson, Mohsen-Ejehi, in Tehran rather than being handled in Tabriz. Their families are concerned for their wellbeing.

 When attempting to secure lawyers for the two, authorities have said that the two men did not need legal representation.

Sajjad and Houtan Kian’s only ‘crime’ has been to defend Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and proclaim her innocence with facts and evidence. That their contact with Mina Ahadi is considered a crime is absurd given that Ahadi has been contacted by death row prisoners and their families and lawyers for many years now, including directly from prison. This is because of her many years of work against stoning and executions.

The International Committees against Stoning and Execution call on international bodies and the people of the world to come out in full force against the state-sponsored murder of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani.  Ms Ashtiani, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, Houtan Kian and the two German journalists must be immediately and unconditionally released.

ACT NOW!

1. Contact government officials, MPs, MEPs, and the UN asking them to intervene urgently. Governments must immediately summon the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ambassadors and demand that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s execution be stopped and that she along with her son, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, and lawyer, Houtan Kian, and the two German journalists be immediately released.

2. Send letters of condemnation to the Islamic regime of Iran right away:

Head of the Judiciary

Sadeqh Larijani

Howzeh Riyasat-e Qoveh Qazaiyeh (Office of the Head of the Judiciary)

Pasteur St., Vali Asr Ave., south of Serah-e Jomhouri

Tehran 1316814737, Iran

Email: info@dadiran.ir or via website: http://www.dadiran.ir/tabid/75/Default.aspx

First starred box: your given name; second starred box: your family name; third: your email address

Head of the Judiciary in East Azerbaijan Province

Malek-Ashtar Sharifi

Office of the Head of the Judiciary in Tabriz

East Azerbaijan, Iran

Ali Khamenei

The Office of the Supreme Leader

Islamic Republic Street – Shahid Keshvar Doust Street

Tehran, Iran

Email: via website: http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/index.php?p=letter (English)

http://www.leader.ir/langs/fa/index.php?p=letter (Persian)

Secretary General, High Council for Human Rights

Mohammad Javad Larijani

Howzeh Riassat-e Ghoveh Ghazaiyeh

Pasteur St, Vali Asr Ave., south of Serah-e Jomhuri

Tehran 1316814737, Iran

Fax: +98 21 3390 4986

Email: bia.judi@yahoo.com

3. Please urgently donate to the Save Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani campaign by making your cheque payable to ‘Count Me In – Iran’ and sending it to BM Box 6754, London WC1N 3XX, UK. You can also pay via Paypal (http://countmein-iran.com/donate.html).

For more information, contact:

Mina Ahadi, International Committee against Execution and International Committee against Stoning: minaahadi@aol.com; Tel: +49 (0) 1775692413, http://stopstonningnow.com, http://notonemoreexecution.org

Maryam Namazie, Iran Solidarity, iransolidaritynow@gmail.com, +44 7719166731, www.iransolidarity.org.uk, iransolidarity.blogspot.com

TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL…WHY NOT CALL IT MURDER BY ISLAM…JUST THAT!

Sometimes, indeed often, the comments on Jihadwatch are so true. This was in response to the murder of the girl by stoning:

“They replied : ‘We will do what Allah has instructed us.'”

I’ll only believe in Allah when he convinces you guys to all go jump off a cliff and no longer be a threat to humanity.

“David Copeman, Amnesty’s Somalia campaigner, said: ‘This was not justice, nor was it an execution. This child suffered an horrendous death at the behest of the armed opposition groups who currently control Kismayu.

‘This killing is yet another human rights abuse committed by the combatants in Somalia and again demonstrates the importance of international action to investigate and document such abuses, through an international commission of inquiry.’

Amnesty said partway through the stoning nurses checked whether Aisha was still alive. They pulled her body out of the ground to ascertain she was still breathing before the stoning continued.”

Am I reading this correctly? David Copeman calls this incident “another human rights abuse committed by the combatants in Somalia”? How about calling this murder committed by Islamic terrorists?

I never knew there were “stoning nurses” before but what good are they? Obviously they are only there to see if the stoning has been effective or not – they don’t actually help the victim being stoned.

Finally, Copeman’s argument that this “again demonstrates the importance of international action to investigate and document such abuses, through an international commission of inquiry.'” does nobody no good. International commissions of inquiry don’t help the 13-year old girl being stoned. It’s questionable whether international action can ever be taken over such matters and as usual, it would only be left to democratic states to do something about this. The garbage coming from this guy reflects an outdated belief in the usefulness of international institutions – they’re only good for talk and no action.

GIRL OF 13 BEGGING FOR MERCY BEFORE BEING STONED

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“Somali girl ‘pleaded for mercy’ before Islamists stoned her to death for being raped,” by David Williams in the Daily Mail, November 5 (thanks to Elisa):

A girl of 13 begged for mercy moments before a mob buried her up to her shoulders and stoned her to death, it was claimed yesterday.

The Somalian youngster is said to have pleaded ‘Don’t kill me, don’t kill me’ before her horrific execution in front of a 1,000-strong crowd.

A boy is thought to have been shot dead amid the appalling scenes inside a football stadium in Kismayu, a rebel-held port.

According to Amnesty International, the girl was 13 and had been raped by three men.

Officials say she was 23 and had confessed adultery before an Islamic court.

The stoning, which took place on October 28, is the first public killing in war-torn Somalia for two years.

Convicting a girl of 13 for adultery would be illegal under sharia law but the authorities said she had lied about her age. Print and radio journalists who were allowed to attend the execution put her age at 23.

Amnesty and Unicef, the UN children’s agency, said that the girl, identified as Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow, was raped while travelling to see a relative in Mogadishu, the Somalian capital.

Her family is said to have tried to report the crime to the militia who control Kismayu, only for Aisha to be arrested and accused of adultery. None of the men she accused of rape was detained.

David Copeman, Amnesty’s Somalia campaigner, said: ‘This was not justice, nor was it an execution. This child suffered an horrendous death at the behest of the armed opposition groups who currently control Kismayu.

‘This killing is yet another human rights abuse committed by the combatants in Somalia and again demonstrates the importance of international action to investigate and document such abuses, through an international commission of inquiry.’

Amnesty said partway through the stoning nurses checked whether Aisha was still alive. They pulled her body out of the ground to ascertain she was still breathing before the stoning continued.

A Unicef statement said: ‘She sought protection from the authorities, who then accused her of adultery and sentenced her to death.

‘A child was victimised twice – first by the perpetrators of the rape and then by those responsible for administering justice.’…

A witness told the BBC the woman had begged for her life and had been crying as she was forced into the hole in the ground.

He said the girl had asked the Islamic administration in Kismayo: ‘What do you want from me?’

They replied : ‘We will do what Allah has instructed us.’

She said: ‘I’m not going, I’m not going. Don’t kill me, don’t kill me.’

The witness added: ‘A few minutes later more than 50 men tried to stone her.’

He said no one tried to stop the Islamist officials, who were armed.

Fallaci

Let’s hear from Oriana Fallaci, in the Rage and the Pride.

First, her call to arms, her warning to the peoples of the free non-Muslim world:

“I say: “Wake up, people. Wake up!!” Intimidated as you are by your fear of going against the current—that is, appearing racist (a word which is entirely inapt as we are speaking not about a race but about a religion)—you don’t understand or don’t want to understand that a reverse–Crusade is in progress.

“Accustomed as you are to the double–cross, blinded as you are by myopia, you don’t understand or don’t want to understand that a war of religion is in progress. Desired and declared by a fringe of that religion, perhaps, but a war of religion nonetheless. A war which they call Jihad. Holy War.

“A war that might not seek to conquer our territory, but that certainly seeks to conquer our souls.

“That seeks the disappearance of our freedom and our civilization.

“That seeks to annihilate our way of living and dying, our way of praying or not praying, our way of eating and drinking and dressing and entertaining and informing ourselves.

“You don’t understand or don’t want to understand that if we don’t oppose them, if we don’t defend ourselves, if we don’t fight, the Jihad will win.

“And it will destroy the world that for better or worse we’ve managed to build, to change, to improve, to render a little more intelligent, that is to say, less bigoted—or even not bigoted at all.

“And with that it will destroy our culture, our art, our science, our morals, our values, our pleasures…

“Christ! Don’t you realize that the Osama Bin Ladens feel authorized to kill you and your children because you drink wine or beer,

“because you don’t wear your beard long or a chador,

” because you go to the theater or the movies, because you listen to music and sing pop songs,

“because you dance in discos or at home, because you watch TV, wear miniskirts or short–shorts,

“because you go naked or half naked to the beach or the pool, because you fuck when you want and where you want and who you want?

“Don’t you even care about that, you fools? I am an atheist, thank God. And I have no intention of letting myself be killed for it.”…

And then, a propos this ghastly story from Somalia, Fallaci’s description of Muslims conducting a sharia execution in Bangladesh:

…”To make you cry I’ll tell you about the twelve young impure men I saw executed at Dacca at the end of the Bangladesh war.

” They executed them on the field of Dacca stadium, with bayonet blows to the torso or abdomen, in the presence of twenty thousand faithful who applauded in the name of God from the bleachers. They thundered “Allah akbar, Allah akbar.”

“Yes, I know: the ancient Romans, those ancient Romans of whom my culture is so proud, entertained themselves in the Coliseum by watching the deaths of Christians fed to the lions.

” I know, I know: in every country of Europe the Christians, those Christians whose contribution to the History of Thought I recognize despite my atheism, entertained themselves by watching the burning of heretics.

“But a lot of time has passed since then, we have become a little more civilized, and even the sons of Allah ought to have figured out by now that certain things are just not done.

“After the twelve impure young men they killed a little boy who had thrown himself at the executioners to save his brother who had been condemned to death.

“They smashed his head with their combat boots.

” And if you don’t believe it, well, reread my report or the reports of the French and German journalists who, horrified as I was, were there with me.

“Or better: look at the photographs that one of them took.

” Anyway this isn’t even what I want to underline.

” It’s that, at the conclusion of the slaughter, the twenty thousand faithful (many of whom were women) left the bleachers and went down on the field.

” Not as a disorganized mob, no. In an orderly manner, with solemnity.

“They slowly formed a line and, again in the name of God, walked over the cadavers.

“All the while thundering Allah–akbar, Allah–akbar. They destroyed them like the Twin Towers of New York. They reduced them to a bleeding carpet of smashed bones.”