Iran’s Etemmad newspaper reported that Iran’s appeal review judges have verified Delara Darabi’s death sentence and her file is transferred to Iran’s head of judiciary for final decision. Delara’s attorney Abdolsamad Khoramshahi stated after verifying the news: “In a very short time the judges denied my appeal.”  This was despite his hope that based on the presented documents they would reconsider the sentence.  ”Unfortunately the deficiencies of the file were not given proper attention and all of the questioned claims were ignored and the file was sent to the offices of Ayatollah Hashemi Shahrudi for approval of the execution.” Khoramshahi said that he is hopeful that the judges of Ayatollah Shahrudi’s office would review the file with more attention. 

 

Delara’s family told Nazanin Afshin-Jam that two of Delara’s fingers were broken. Delara has not said how this happened but it is likely that this was due to recent beating by some prison mates. After recent visits Delara is reported as ”not doing good emotionally”. After reading the Stop Child Execution Petition a family member stated:” I was very disappointed to see the list of so many children on death row. There are no differences between boys and girls, none of the accused minors should be executed but it was even more saddening to see that Delara was the only girl on the list.”

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