Mohammad Mostafaei: Fighting to save juveniles from execution

As part of Amnesty International's 2012 death penalty campaign

The Guardian and animators from Sherbet tell the extraordinary story of Mohammad Mostafaei, a lawyer who has saved 20 of the 40 juveniles he has defended from execution in Iran. Actor Paul Bettany speaks the lawyer's words:

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27-Mar-2012
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hirre

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by hirre on Wed Mar 28, 2012 04:26 AM PDT

There is this viking animal-mentality in the middle-east that will take many years to wash off, even in a future democratic Iran...


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default

Monsters

by Sialashgar on Tue Mar 27, 2012 08:42 PM PDT

people are the monsters not the governments.Get off governments back

Change your self.


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Khebedin

Very difficult to make

by Khebedin on Tue Mar 27, 2012 08:15 PM PDT

Very difficult to make comments. When you consider

1- Iranian society and their culture

2-The right of victim's relatives.

3-The situation in Iran.

And let us not forget that very few ( and I mean very few) of cases end here, they mostly are forgiven. My fear is that any change could have a far more devestating consequences.


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shushtari

another heart breaking

by shushtari on Tue Mar 27, 2012 04:01 PM PDT

story from the long, long list of tragedies in the treacherous existence of the animals who have destroyed our homeland since 1979....

I pray for swift and crushing justice and for god to save our land soon 


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Arj

Powerful depiction

by Arj on Tue Mar 27, 2012 10:58 AM PDT

...and great animation work! Eversince its inception, IRI has been promoting a mentality of vengeance and vindictiveness throughout the Iranian society! As humans first, and Iranians next, it's imperative that we stand for a post-IRI Iran that will be free of death sentence and acts of barbarity of the sort!


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Bavafa

Death penalty is only ….

by Bavafa on Tue Mar 27, 2012 07:56 AM PDT

A State sponsored murder and must be vanished from Iran and every other place in the world.

Cheers to Mr. Motafaei for his Nobel cause and work to save as many as he has been. 

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad


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Roozbeh_Gilani

Another unsung hero.

by Roozbeh_Gilani on Tue Mar 27, 2012 07:51 AM PDT

His most high profile client was Mrs Sakineh ashtiani, who was sentenced to stoning by the corrupt islamist courts of injustice. Mr Mostafaei's persecution by the Fascist islamist regime started , when he defended this lady's case.

As always with this murdering regime, they did not go only after him, they went after his relatives too.

Read more here.

"Personal business must yield to collective interest."


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