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Delara's belongings taken away. She was injured.

Today the security officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran removed Delara’s belongings including her art and books. They even violently broke her water jar which caused injury to her hands. 

At the same time we have been notified by many in Iran that they no longer can access stopchildexecutions.com website. There is a strong possibility that the SCE website has been blocked in Iran. These events seem to  be coinciding with words of concerns that was communicated by the Foreign Ministers of Sweden and Canada to Iranian Foreign Minister. The communications were as a result of contacts by SCE campaign and its supporters in Europe. 

Regime authorities do not seem to be happy with the Delara documentary that was made by SCE campaign, Delara’s poems from prison and the growing worldwide support and attention to Delara and other minors on death row in Iran. This seem to be their effort to control the communications from the prisoners and within Iran to the outside world.

In her last communiqué Delara was desperately asking for her removal from the prison in city of Rasht to Tehran.

Constant request of Delara Darabi and her attorneys for transfer from one prison to another has been constantly ignored or denied while Amir Hossein who could be the person who committed murder has been given preferential treatments including vacation.

According to Delara after the murder , Amir Hossein told Delara to take responsibility, and said that since he has strong contacts within the regime and she was a minor he could get her released. Delara was also threatened and considering what Delara had witnessed she was afraid to do otherwise. According to Delara’s father’s recent interview, after he delivered her to authorities he had instructed her family not to communicate with Delara, and it was not till more than a week later when he went to see Delara that Delara told him that she was innocent and she had testified because of her fear while she had no family support. Delara’s father said, ever since for three years Delara has been claiming her innocence and there are many facts to prove her innocence, but the execution verdict has remained the same.

According to private resources in Iran, Amir Hossein’s father works at the Herasat division of the government utility company.  Herasat is the regime’s internal security division that acts as eyes and ears of the Iranian regime in each organization.

We will report more details about Delara’s condition as soon as they are available. The SCE campaign strongly condemns violation of Delara’s prisoner and human rights. We will be in contact with Amnesty International, Red Cross , UN and other international authorities about the well being of Delara Darabi. 

Delara's sister signed the petitions

Last month Ghazal Darabi , 19 year old sister of Delara Darabi signed the stop child executions petition. 

2367. ghazal iran student

 Yesterday she also signed Delara’s petition. 

13272. ghazale man khahare delara hastam mikham ke ono beshnasid va motevaje bigonahish beshin khahesh mikoanm!

she wrote: I am Delara’s sister. I wish that you get to know her and please be aware that she is innocent.

Letter to Swedish foreign minister about Delara Darabi and other children facing execution in Iran.

In a letter to Foreign Minister of Sweden, Birgitta Ohlsson , member of the Swedish Parliament , after addressing Delara’s situation and Iran’s obligation to adhere to International laws against execution of children, she asked the Swedish Foreign minister : What is the policy and plan of Government of Sweden in stopping execution of Delara Darabi and others in Iran who were under 18 at the time of alleged crime?

 den 2 mars
Fråga
2006/07:789 Stoppande av avrättningen av D Darabi
av Birgitta Ohlsson (fp)
till utrikesminister Carl Bildt (m)

17 år gammal greps den iranska flickan Delara Darabi för ett mord hon inte begått. Två år senare inväntar hon nu dödsstraff trots att ingen brottsutredning har gjorts. Den 16 februari 2007 offentliggjorde Högsta domstolen i Iran att Delara Darabi ska avrättas genom hängning inom kort. Mordet hon anklagas för begicks när hon ännu inte fyllt 18 år.

FN:s Kommitté för Barnens Rättigheter uppmanade 2005 Iran att ”omedelbart inställa verkställandet av alla dödsstraff för personer som begått brott när de var under 18 år”, vilket föreskrivits i artikel 37 i Konventionen om Barnens Rättigheter.

Dödsstraffet kränker rätten till liv och förhindrar inte brott. Det är inhumant, skapar martyrer och strider mot rätten till liv, vår allra mest grundläggande mänskliga rättighet.

Vad avser statsrådet att vidtaga för åtgärder så att den iranska staten häver dödsdomen mot Delara Darabi samt stoppar alla dödsstraff utfärdade för individer som anklagas för brott begångna innan de fyllt18 år?

 

English translation of letter:

 

Question

Stopping the execution of D Darabi

by Birgitta Ohlsson (fp)

to Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Bildt

When she was 17 years old the Iranian girl Delara Darabi was arrested for a murder she did not commit. Two years later she is awaiting execution though there has been no crime scene investigation. The Supreme Court in Iran announced February 16, 2007 that Delara will be executed shortly by hanging. The murder she is accused of happened before she turned 18 years.

The UN committee on the Rights of the Child asked Iran in 2005 to “immediately end the use of death penalty against people who committed crimes before they turned 18 years”, as prescribed by article 37 in the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The death penalty violates the right to life and do not act as an deterrent to crime. It is inhuman, creates martyrs and denies the right to life, the most fundamental of all human rights.

What measures does the minister intend to take to make the Iranian state overturn the death sentence against Delara Darabi, and end the use of death penalty for individuals accused for crimes committed before they turned 18 years?
 

Inkom: 2007-03-02

نامه بیریگیتا اولسون نماینده حزب مردم در پارلمان سوﺌد به وزیر امور خارجه سوﺌد درباره دلآرا دارابی و اعدام کودکان و نوجوانان درایران!

در پی تماسهای نماینده گان کمیته بین المللی علیه اعدام با بیرگیتا اولسون و تقاضای دخالت ایشان در شرایط دلارا دارابی، توقف اعدام کودکان و لغو مجازات اعدام در ایران، ایشان در نامه اش به کارل بیلد می نویسد:

دلآرا دارابی، زمانی که 17 سال بیشتر نداشت به جرم قتلی که مرتکب نشده است، بازداشت شد. دو سال بعد قرار است وی اعدام شود در حالیکه هیچ گونه تحقیقات جنایی در رابطه با این قتل صورت نگرفته است. شانزدهم فوریه دادگاه عالی ایران، اعلام کرد که حکم دلآرا تأیید شده است و به زودی به دار آویخته خواهد شد. قتلی که او به انجام آن متهم است در زمانی اتفاق افتاده است که وی به سن قانونی یعنی 18 سالگی نرسیده بود. کمیسیون حقوق کودکان سازمان ملل در سال 2005 بر اساس بند 37 کنوانسیون حقوق کودک، اخطار داد که اعدام کسانی که در زمان اجرای جرم، زیر 18 سال بوده اند را بیدرنگ متوقف کند،.

مجازات اعدام نه تنها از تکرار جنایت و قتل جلوگیری نمی کند بلکه حق حیات را سلب می کند. این عملی ضد انسانی و خلاف حق زندگی است، این ابتدایی ترین و پایه ای تری حقوق بشر.

برنامه دولت برای لغو حکم اعدام دلارا و اشخاص دیگری که در زمان وقوع جرم زیر 18 سال بوده اند در ایران چیست؟ 

Now I can read

She was only 5 when her 17 year old sister did not come home anymore. Everyone seemed disturbed at home but she could not understand what was happening. When she asked about her sister, she was told that she had attended a university  She often cried until the family decided to occasionally take her to visit her sister.

This went on for 3 years until she again insisted that she wanted to see her sister, so her mom took her to visit. After she returned, her other sister found her crying silently in the corner of her room. 

– “Why are you crying?” She asked

- ”I didn’t tell mom , but this time I could read the sign at the entrance of the place where Delara lives, it was written: Prison”. said the 8 year old with tears rolling down her face.

Since then she always stays very close to her other sister who is only one year younger than Delara. Delara’s 19 year old sister studies psychology, but her 8 year old sister no longer wants her to go to university. She is worried that she may not come back home either.

Source:  Delara Darabi Family

Yesterday Delara was visited by her mother. Delara was crying a lot that she wants to at least be moved to Tehran prison as the conditions where she is being kept is unbearable.

Delara's final appeal is filed

According to Etemaad newspaper, the final appeal to Iran’s head of judiciary was filed by Delara Darabi’s attorney. Abdolsamad Khoramshahi told the newspaper: “In murder cases, confessions alone are unacceptable and only serve as a supporting cause to help the judge verify the facts. Delara only once in the beginning after her arrest- with a specific intention- accepted the responsibility of murder, but for the past three years she has been screaming that her confession was false and she is innocent. Obviously reenactment of the crime scene which was promised by the judge who issued the death sentence would easily help discover the facts”.

Khoramshahi is hopeful that Ayatollah Shahrudi, head of Iran’s judiciary, will stop the execution.

"Delara's voice" صدای دل آرا

I empathize with the scarecrow
I empathize with the scarecrow for being stuck in the field 
Her voice is lost behind the clusters of wheat
…and Delara’s voice
ah! how late I realized that I have become a scarecrow ..
دلارا دارابىã Delara Darabi

!دلم برای مترسک می سوزد
دلم برای مترسک میسوزد که سر جالیز هی در جا میزند و
صدایش پشت خوشه خوشه گندم گم می شود
و صدای دل آرا …
 آه چه  دیر فهمیدم مترسک شده ام 

"While Free" : by Delara Darabi

Today Delara Darabi was visited. Delara’s right hand is better and healing.

Delara said that she was very thankful to everyone for all the caring efforts on her behalf. This poem is a present from Delara :

 

While Free
we suppose freedom is an ideal, Unattainable.
and we reach out
for what is already sacrificed under our own feet!
“Freedom”….Never being entrapped is meaningless!
Oh People! Let us rip the chains of our thoughts
and not be captivated by freedom
for …that itself is our “captive” !…

 

دلارا دارابىã Delara Darabi

تا زمانیکه آزادیم
آزادی را آرمانی دست نیافتنی می پنداریم

و برای رسیدن به چیزی که قربانی زیر پای ماست؛

دستها یمان را دراز می کنیم

آزادی” ! همیشه در بند نبودن معنا نمی دهد “

آی آدم ها ! بیایید بند های اندیشمان را بدریم ها

ودر بند ازادی نباشیم

زیرا که خود “بند در ماست

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