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You Tube on Delara Darabi Case: : May
16, 2007 video release
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Iran
- Execution of Delara Darabi, 2003 Child Prisoner in Iran
Women News Network - WNN - Friday 1 May,
2009
Delara Darabi. Image: AIUK
Delara Darabi, a woman prisoner jailed
under a questionable case in Iran prison in 2003 since the age of 17, has just
been executed this morning by hanging in
Darabi’s case has raised much opposition,
international outrage and protest during her 2007 retrial. Details on the case
that may have saved Darabi’s life were not admitted in the retrial. Both
parents have admitted that Delara was left handed. Case evidence required
that the killer must have been right handed.
According to Amnesty International reports,
Delara confessed to the murder of a relative at the age of 17. Later she
retracted her admission, saying she was trying to protect her boyfriend from
receiving the punishment. At the time she expected her young age would sway the
courts in a positive direction.
“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,” said Amnesty International Middle East and North
Africa Programme Deputy Director Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui. “This indicates that
even decisions by the Head of the Judiciary carry no weight and are disregarded
in the provinces,” continued Sahraoui.
Out of 140 executions thus far for 2009,
Darabi is the second woman and the second child offender who has been executed
by
For more information on this case see:
AI UK - Amnesty International UK report: “Iran: Outrage at execution of child offender Delara
Darabi“
Shahrzad News You Tube: May
16, 2007 video release
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