Delara Darabi Hanged
Delara Darabi
29th September 1986-1st May 2009
Delara Darabi was hanged this morning at Rasht Central Prison in Iran.
22 year old Delara was executed despite her having been given a two-month stay of execution by the Head of the Judiciary on 19 April.
There had been widespread appeals to save Delara’s life. Amnesty International’s Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui said: ‘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. 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 is the second person to be executed in Iran this year after being convicted of a crime she was alleged to have committed while still under 18.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/5263203/Iran-executes-woman-for-alleged-murder-committed-as-a-juvenile.htmlhttp://
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Delara’s last words to her mother was: ‘Mother, they are going to hang me! Save me!’
Then the cell phone was taken from her and the guard spoke insults to her schocked parents on the other side, before she was taken to the gallows. She was dead before they reached the jail. No lawyers present or even notified. No appeals heard, no nothing.
I saw a recent picture of Ahmadinejad weeping during a ceremony for Muhammad’s daughter Fatimah. This hypocrate has no tears to shed for Delara.