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For her children sake , help save the life of Raheleh Zamani!

Anton Chekhov the great Russian writer wrote a story with a title " The Bet " .In this story he shows his disagreement about capital punishment. That story and stories alike , and the time and experiences,changed very little the way the human conceive about this phenomenon.

In Iran we have a long way to go to eleminate this inhuman historical trends. Are we allowed to call those regimes in the world today which continue capital punishment as "barbaric". We may call ourselves "modern" , " Liberal" ," civil", "progressive" , " Islamic sharia " or with any other title, but still we lack creating a humane society .

Once again disturbing news is coming from Evin prison. The prison officials have hanged six people,a 27 year old woman and five men . Another women whose name is Raheleh Zamani is awaiting for her death by hanging. She was supposed to be hanged together with other six prisoners , but she was given a last chance to speak with her husbands family to pardon her . She has a three and a five year old children,the authority has given the custody of the children to their uncle,Raheleh has wrote a letter to the parents of her late husband and asked for forgiveness.

Just imagine about her children , a three and a five years old.

Efat Mahbaz ,one of the Iranian women's rights advocate, in an article which was posted on gooya news wrote: Hang the laws and not Raheleh !

"Asieh Amini" another women's human rights advocate, who went early in the morning of Wednesday to Evin prison to save the lives of these people , wrote in her blog: "Raheleh was not executed, they gave time to get an agreement from the family of the husband to pardon Raheleh. Since 3:00am we ( together with Iman)were in Evin and around 6:20 am we returned,three hours of crying,begging ...and praying!!!!"

Link to Asieh's blog in Farsi:

http://varesh.blogfa.com/

Link to the news:

http://iran-emrooz.net/

http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2007/12/066106.php