Iran urged to quash prison sentence for ‘Mourning Mothers’ activist
Amnesty International / Amnesty International
13-Apr-2012 (one comment)

The Iranian authorities must quash a court ruling sentencing a Tehran woman to four and a half years in prison based on her peaceful human rights activities, Amnesty International said today. 



On 4 April, the Revolutionary Court notified Mansoureh Behkish’s lawyers that she had been sentenced on charges of “propaganda against the system” and “gathering and colluding with intent to harm national security” for her work with the group the Mothers of Laleh Park – formerly known as the “Mourning Mothers”.



Mansoureh Behkish, 54, has said she intends to appeal the decision. 



Amnesty International believes that she has also been targeted for supporting the families of political prisoners summarily executed in 1988-1989.



“If Mansoureh Behkish’s jail sentence is carried out, she would be a prisoner of conscience, held solely for her peaceful human rights activities,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Middle East and North Africa Programme Director at Amnesty International. 



“The Iranian authorities must immediately quash the sentences against her and other members of the Mothers of Laleh Park.”



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Simorgh5555

Mothers of murdered Iranians harassed by IR

by Simorgh5555 on

This filthy evil regime which has taken the lives of thousands of young Iranians and more recently in 2009 is now persecuting the mothers of the bereaved. 

I look forward to the day when Ahmadinejad, Mortzazavi are target assassinated inside their cars with their family inside their vehicle. I look forward to the day the next scum Basiji commander and Sepahi general are gunned down or killed in a car explosion in Tehran. When their families come to mourn them I will relish spitting in their faces and gloat at them while they wail for their terrorist fathers and husbands. 

DEATH TO THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC.

DEATH TO THE SUPPORTERS OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC. 

PLEASE SUPPORT MILITARY ACTION  



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