BECAUSE SHE TOO HAS A VOICE: Colin Firth Speaks Up For Sakineh M. Ashtiani

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BECAUSE SHE TOO HAS A VOICE: Colin Firth Speaks Up For Sakineh M. Ashtiani
by Darius Kadivar
18-Dec-2010
 

LONDON (AP) Celebrities including Colin Firth ( The King's Speech), Robert Redford, Robert De Niro amongst others have called on Iran to release a woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. Firth's endorsement was collected at the Dubai Film Festival during the Promotion of his latest Film The King's Speech which has received considerable critical and popular claim.
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CNN Report Dec 10th, 2010:
Iranian authorities let Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani out of jail to re-enact the murder of her husband for a documentary on Press TV.

 
In an open letter published Monday, more than 80 actors, artists, musicians, academics and politicians said that "Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has suffered enough."


 

DFF Interview Colin Firth speaks about various issues including how best to help NGO's:

 

Signatories include actor Colin Firth, artist Damien Hirst, Nobel literature laureates Wole Soyinka and V.S. Naipaul, British opposition leader Ed Miliband and former French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner. They say Ashtiani has already spent five years in prison and received 99 lashes.

CBS: Colin Firth as Britain's King George VI:

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They called on Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to release her along with her son and lawyer, who are also imprisoned.

The letter was published on the front page of The Times of London newspaper.

 

Ashtiani, 43, was convicted in 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men after the murder of her husband the year before and was sentenced at that time to 99 lashes. She was later convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned.

Iran also says she has confessed to complicity in her husband's murder.

After coming under intense demands from Western politicians and rights groups to free Ashtiani, Iran put her stoning sentence for adultery on hold in July for review by the country's supreme court.

Stoning was widely imposed in the years following the 1979 Islamic revolution, and even though Iran's judiciary still regularly hands down such sentences, they are often converted to other punishments. The last known stoning was carried out in 2007.

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yolanda

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Thank you for posting the CNN video.......IRI made their versions of stories on Neda and Sakineh........but nobody believes them! I am glad to see the whole world is pushing for her release and pushing to abolish stoning! It is awesome!


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Darius, Hoshang, Thank you guys.

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For the blog and link to Zahra Bahrami. The more publicity, the more chance our compatriots have  surviving the islamist regime's tortur chambers.

As for the islamist lap poodle, below, his yap yap is getting more hysterical and desperate daily, I like it :)

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."


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كارزار " من صداى او هستم"

Hoshang Targol


Introducing a new Campaign  for Political prisoners in Iran

Aghay Kadivar , if I may , I thought this might be an aporpos space to introduce a new campaign to give voice to political prisoners in Iran. This week's focus is on Ms. Zahra Bahrami, see below, and many thanks to DK, cheers.

__________________________________________________________________

 

هفته زهرا بهرامى


كارزار " من صداى او هستم"

 //www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_Nk5bq9sIY


صدای زهرا بهرامى  باش

نگذار صدايش را خاموش كنند

 

زهرا بهرامی ۴۶ ساله و مادر دو فرزند است. زهرا  كه شهروند هلند نيز ميباشد سال ١٣٨٨به قصد ديدن فرزندش به ايران رفته بود. او چند روز پس از تظاهرات ششم دی ١٣٨٨، در تهران توسط ماموران وزرات اطلاعات دستگير شد. روز ششم ديماه
تعداد دستگیر شدگان را توان و امکانات مزدوران بسیج و سپاه و لباس
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//cfppi.blogspot.com

www.iranpoliticalprisoners.com


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