October 21
Executions continue in Iran…
Yesterday Soheila Ghadiri, Mohammad Hossein, Ali Alimi, and two others were executed. Soheil’s crime was because she killed her 5 year old baby, her defense was postpartum depression. The father of the baby had agreed to forgive her but she was executed on the order of the prosecution. In a statement by Soheila, her reason for killing her baby was because ” “I escaped from home and got married to the boy I loved, at the age of 16. He died in an accident and after that I started with prostitution and drug addiction. I got HIV and hepatitis. When my baby was born, I killed her because I didn’t want her to have the same destiny as mine.”
Ali Alami, another victim was married with 3 children killed a man while defending his wife who was attacked. The question that is heavily asked is, how does a man get executed for defending his wife? Any reasonable person would defend their wife when they’re in danger, it’s basic instinct. As for Safar Angooti, a prisoner who was soppouse to be executed yesterday just received an extra month before being executed. The victims family is currently asking for 150,000 dollars (US currency) for blood money. Angooti was convicted for murdering someone under the age of 18 and received the death penalty when he was 17. The spokesperson of Iran Human Rights Mahmood Amiri Moghaddam said, ” International attention has uten any doubt contributed to this postponement. We must remember that Safar and several other minors in the Iranian prisons remain in danger of execution. World community must use continue the pressure on the Iranian authorities to remove premanently the death penalty against all minor offenders.” He also went on to condemn the 5 executions which occured yesterday.
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