On-line petion to save a girls life

ShyGuy68

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Join the campaign to save Jila 13 from prison and stoning!

Nahid Riazi's announcement regarding campaigning to save Jila Izadi.

The Islamic regime of Iran is going to stone a 13 year old girl in Marivan to death.

Jila has been condemned to stoning to death. She got pregnant with her 15 year old brother. The Islamic regime of Iran wants to stone this girl. I ask all people in Iran and all NGO organizations which are active for children's rights or other human rights in Iran and outside Iran to put pressure on the Iranian regime for immediate release of this child.

Jila is a child, a 13 year old child. She must not stay in prison one minute more. We are human beings, and we cannot witness the imprisonment of a child. Execution or stoning to death should be unimaginable.

I implore everybody, and all political or social organizations, to stand up to save Jila's life. Sign the letter condemning her arrest and sentence. We will guarantee that people in West hear your opinions and condemnation of this barbaric act. With millions of letters in favour of saving Jila and against the Islamic regime, sent to the United Nations and European Union, we can save her life. I ask all internet websites, web loggers, radios and TV stations which are humane, to broadcast this campaign to save Jila's life. You can sign the condemnation letter below, or write another letter of your own. You can translate this letter into other languages and ask people to sign it.

Please send a copy of your letter to us to make sure we work collectively.

With thanks,

Nahid Riazi

Nahid Riazi from the Central Committee for the Emancipation of Women, and the coordinator of the campaign againstthe imprisonment and stoning of Jila in Marivan.
 
done, and like someone else said who signed the petition-this is what happens when you deny human beings right to have sex.
 
i did it too, but i have a question. is an online petition actually considered a legal petition? do cyber letters count? (not trying to be mean or put down the cause, i really am interested in knowing the answer)
 
sigsauerprinces said:
done, and like someone else said who signed the petition-this is what happens when you deny human beings right to have sex.

The things that bug the hell out of me are her age (she's 13, NO ONE can consent at 13..) and the fact that her brother wasn't punished. He was just as "quilty", :rolleyes: if not more so, than she was.

edited due to lack of subject/verb agreement...
 
snowy ciara said:
The things that bug the hell out of me are her age (she's 13, NO ONE can consent at 13..) and the fact that her brother wasn't punished. He was just as "quilty", :rolleyes: if not more so, than she was.
Actually he have been sentenced to 100 or 150 lashes with a whip. But from what I've read that sentence have been appealed.
 
I'd googled it last night, (but didn't save the results, sorry folks) and I got the impression he wasn't or will not be punished.
 
snowy ciara said:
I'd googled it last night, (but didn't save the results, sorry folks) and I got the impression he wasn't or will not be punished.
I've read it on two danish news sites, and both wrote he would get whipped as punishment. But since they are in Danish, I don't think you would get much out of the links ;)
 
From what I have found in the Swedish newspapers her brothers have been sentenced to 150 lashes. And the girl's sentence might be changed to hanging.
 
In Iran it's it illegial to kill anyone, but if it is a woman under the ownership of the husband she becomes property and not human at all. That way has bypassed the barely existant legal system.
The woman is guided to the site of the stoning by the towns women. She would be covered head to toe in black, upon the site the "chador" is removed, and in the case i read the victim has on a white dress. She is lowered into a hole that has been dug. Than men shovel dirt into the hole around her sealing her in to the hole with her arms at her sides only exposing her head and shoulders. With each cshovel full they intone "in the name of allah" for courage. She is than given a chance to say any last words before her punishment is carried out. They mark a circle with quick lime about 25 feet in radius fomr the victim's head. Than it is the HONOR of the accused's father to throw the first stone, and continue throwing until he hits her. This helps bring back honor to the family. Than the husband and any sons she may have. Finally the village is allowed to cast their stones, cheering as if they won a prize when they hit her. Eventuitally one may cross the line to check if the victim is still alive. In the case i read she was still alive, so they proceded to crack her skull with a brick.

My reference is form a book called "the stoning of Soraya M." by Freidoune Sahebjam.
"Over the past fifteen years more than 1,000 women have been stoned to death in Iran. Here is the true and shocking story of one such woman"

Petition signed... not sure what good it will do but it can't hurt.
 
Hrm

Online petitions. I mourn the fact that this will be the only medium of helping this girl. Unless I can devise a convenient hypersonic locomotion vessel to transport me there to manipulate the casings at which she is bound in and break free for under $150.
 
Kajira Callista said:
i did it too, but i have a question. is an online petition actually considered a legal petition? do cyber letters count? (not trying to be mean or put down the cause, i really am interested in knowing the answer)

Online petitions have a higher likelyhood of actually being successful in helping when set up formally, to include a watermarked signature of each who signs in support of the petitioned cause. Here's a great example of a petition set up in a way that could hold more water legally:

http://thiscause.org/p/index2.php?petition=La_Wizzz_and_Le_Wizzz38280&nextup=LAST&entriesperpage=10
 
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