Refleksi : Apakah organisasi-organisasi wanita di NKRI tidak bersuara menyelamatkan Khadijeh Shala Jahed?
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/printArticle.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=401950&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17 Amnesty plea to spare Iran woman's life Publish Date: Wednesday,1 December, 2010, at 01:30 AM Doha Time AFP/London Jahed: wrongly convicted Amnesty International has said the "temporary wife" of an Iranian footballer is to be executed today for the murder of the man's permanent wife and has called for the punishment to be halted. Citing Iranian media reports, the London-based rights group said the lawyer of Khadijeh "Shala" Jahed has said she is to be executed in Tehran's Evin prison at dawn, and it suggested she might have been wrongly convicted. "Shahla Jahed must be spared execution. The death penalty represents the ultimate denial of human rights," Malcolm Smart, Amnesty director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a statement. "As well, in this case, there are good reasons to suggest that she may have been wrongly convicted." Amnesty said Jahed, who had contracted a temporary marriage with Nasser Mohamed Khani, a former striker for the Iranian national team, was convicted of stabbing to death her husband's permanent wife. In the Shia faith that is the majority religion in Iran, men and women can marry for an agreed period of time. Afterwards, the marriage is null and void, although it can be renewed. Smart said there are "strong grounds to believe that Shahla Jahed did not receive a fair trial, and may have been coerced into making a 'confession' during months of detention in solitary confinement. She retracted that confession at her trial but the court chose to accept it as evidence against her." Amnesty said Jahed's lawyer had requested a review of the execution order arguing that the case had not been properly investigated. According to Amnesty, the then head of the judiciary ordered a stay of execution in November 2005 so that the case could be re-examined, and the death sentence was upheld in September 2006. In early 2008, it said, the judiciary again overturned the verdict and ordered a fresh investigation, citing "procedural flaws." However, Jahed was again sentenced to death in February 2009. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
