Two women on death row in Iran have recorded audio messages from their prison cells and asked the free world to save their lives. Now I bring their voices to you.
Najmeh Amini is 23. An accounting student. Her crime? A post on social media. The regime calls it insulting the prophet. For one post, they will hang her.
Mahboubeh Shabani is 33. During the protests, she carried wounded demonstrators to the hospital. Her crime? Saving lives. The regime calls it waging war against God. For saving lives, they will hang her.
Let me be honest. Hashtags and tweets alone will not stop these executions. This regime only understands pressure.
So I call on American, European, and world leaders: make these executions your red line. Tie every sanction, every deal, every negotiation to the lives of political prisoners. Demand their release now. Impose real costs for every hanging.
Najmeh Amini and Mahboubeh Shabani must not die for the crime of freedom.
Act now. Before it is too late.
Meet Parastoo Ahmadi, the Iranian singer just sentenced to 74 lashes for not wearing a hijab in a music video. And I have yet to see a single Western popstar, actor, or woke social justice warrior speechifying about her.
Almost like standing up for truly oppressed people isn’t actually the point.
@JamesEsses@dazzieb78 I donated monthly to nspcc for over 30 years but stopped a couple of years ago over this issue. They’re enabling the abuse they’re supposed to prevent.
Here’s a sentence that should shock anyone who still thinks the Islamic Republic has a justice system.
Arghavan Fallahi is 24 years old. She is sitting in Evin Prison under a death sentence.
She formally asked the judiciary to reopen her case and spare her life.
Today, reports say that request was rejected. Which means she can now be executed at any moment. It just brakes my heart that she did everything to save her life.
And this is the part where the Islamic Republic wants the world to look away and say, “Well, it’s an internal legal matter.”
No. It isn’t.
When a 24-year-old woman can be sentenced to death after a political prosecution, and the same system that arrested her, interrogated her, tried her and condemned her also gets to decide whether she deserves another hearing, that is not justice.
That is the government acting as police, prosecutor, judge and executioner and then calling the whole thing due process.
I wrote about Arghavan before because I did not want the world to learn her name after she was hanged.
She is alive right now. And this is exactly when governments, journalists and human-rights organizations should speak before the execution, not after the obituary.
Stop the execution of Arghavan Fallahi.
#StopExecutionInIran
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