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.
Sensitive and heartbreaking account.
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“When we found my daughter’s body, one of her hands had been cut off with a blade. Her head had been shattered by a live bullet.
We still don’t know what happened first: Did they cut off her hand and torture her before shooting her in the head, or did they shoot her first and mutilate her body afterward?
This is Maedeh’s mom. She says:
“My daughter Maedeh was only 22 years old. She had been married for only one week. She is a hero, a real hero. I am her voice, and I will never let her story be silenced.”
#Maedeh_moradikian
#IranMassacre
The heartbreaking story of two young sisters who protested in Iran and were reportedly sexually assaulted in detention.
Twin sisters Taraneh and Romina Rahimi were just 20 years old. One dreamed of opening her own equestrian club. The other worked in a shoe shop.
Today, one is facing execution. The other has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The sisters, from Isfahan, were arrested in the middle of the night. Security forces broke into their home, tied their hands and feet, put bags over their heads, and took them away.
For four months, no one knew where they were.
Their mother spent night after night searching outside courthouses, prisons, and hospitals, desperate to find her daughters. When she finally saw them in Dowlatabad Prison, both had bruised and swollen faces. Parts of their hair had fallen out or had reportedly been ripped out.
Taraneh said that while held in solitary confinement, she could hear her sister screaming and crying as she was tortured. Interrogators repeatedly struck Taraneh’s previously operated knee and threatened to sexually assault her sister if she refused to sign forced confessions.
According to Taraneh, a prison medical official told her: “You’re going to die anyway. What difference does it make whether you die with a broken leg or a healthy one?”
A complaint alleging sexual assault during detention was formally filed. Yet the court did not hold even a single hearing to investigate the allegation. Instead, the two sisters and other defendants in the case were handed death sentences and decades-long prison terms.
Confessions extracted under torture. Lawyers given just ten minutes to review an 8,000-page case file. A judge who insulted the defendants more than 20 times during the proceedings.
Two young irani women had dreams and that is why they joined the January uprising to demand Freedom. Now one faces the gallows and the other could spend the best years of her life behind bars.
Be their voice.
#TaranehRahimi #RominaRahimi
ایران
اصفهان
ساعت چهار صبح
سه اعدام.
یکی از آنها، پیش از اجرای حکم، پای چوبهٔ دار سکته کرد.
دختر جوانی که برای اعتراض به اعدام آمده بود، با گلوله کشته شد.
مردمی که با تیر و باتوم پراکنده و مجروح شدند.
این تصویر امروزِ ایرانِ من است؛
نسل ما تاوان کدام گناه و نفرین را پس میدهد
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They hanged them in public
Allahu Akbar….That was the sound filling Isfahan's sky this morning when the Islamic Republic hanged three young protesters in public.
Abolfazl Sepahi. Amirhossein Safari.
Three of ours. Gone.💔
۱۵ روز اعتصاب غذای ۱۵۰۰ زندانی #زندان_قزلحصار در اعتراض به اعدام در تاریخ زندانهای ایران بیسابقه است.
بزرگترین عمل سیاسی را «زندانیان مواد مخدر» انجام میدهند.
بیانیه زندانیان در روز دهم اعتصاب غذا در زندان قزلحصار
درود بر مردم همیشه بیدار ایران
امروز ۴/۳۱/ ۱۴۰۵ دهمین روز #اعتصاب واحد ۲ #زندان_قزلحصار میباشد. اعدام را متوقف کنید پیش از آنکه جانهای بیشتری گرفته شود.
ما به تعداد ۱۵۰۰ زندانی زندان قزلحصار در صورتی دست به اعتصاب زدهایم که کاملا آگاهیم فشار ناشی از این اعتصاب غذای خشک جان ما را به خطر انداخته و به مرگ نزدیک میکند. اما با همه این محدودیتها تا زمانی که این چرخه مرگ و این ماشین کشتار جمعی متوقف نگردد از خواسته انسانی خود دست نخواهیم کشید. لذا از تمامی سازمانهای حقوق بشری، نهادهای بینالمللی و گزارشگران ویژه #سازمان_ملل_متحد و وجدانهای بیدار جهان عاجزانه استدعا داریم که در حمایت از این اعتصاب هر چه سریعتر گامی عملی برداشته و برای توقف فوری اجرا احکام اعدام اقدام نمایند. نه به اعدام
#حقوق_بشر
#نه_به_اعدام
Wow, shocking, this is @AOC respond:
You find hijab "fun." #MahsaAmini called it a death sentence.
That's not a custom. That's not a fun learning experience. That's a woman's life. Women live under Sharia laws are not your cultural tourism. We are dying for the freedom you performed as hospitality.
You represent New York City. I live in New York City too , I find it interesting that my congresswoman can wear hijab and smile for a photo, up, but didn’t find time to show up to federal court in New York when 4 hitmen hired by an Islamic regime comes to kill a New Yorker.
Anyway, I'll be in New York court in August facing Islamic regime’s hitman #5. Solidarity, right? Or it’s nut fun!