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Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi signed Stop Child Executions Petition

” When a 16 year old child commits a crime, they issue the death sentence. They keep the child until s/he is over 18 and then proceed with the execution. In reality this is a multiple torture. Assume being someone who everyday has to turn the pages of the calendar to see when you are 18 years old to be killed. This multiple torture that is committed by Government of Iran in reality is an extreme and repeated violation of human rights”

Shirin Ebadi – March 2007 interview with Radio Deutsche Welle

Last week Nazanin Afshin-Jam and the Iranian Nobel Prize Laureate 2003, Shirin Ebadi participated in a panel discussion on women and human rights in the Middle East at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

At this meeting, Ms. Ebadi recognized the work and dedication of Nazanin Afshin-Jam and the Stop Child Executions campaign and extended her support by signing the petition to put a permanent end to executions of minors in Iran.

Shirin Ebadi (شیرین عبادیi) s an Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and founder of Children’s Rights Support Association in Iran. Ms. Ebadi also is also one of the initiaters of the One Million Signature Campaign in Iran which has a goal of equal rights for Iranian women. Nazanin Afshin-Jam and the SCE Campaign thank Ms. Ebadi for her support of the campaign to Stop Child Executions in Iran. 

5805. Shirin Ebadi Iran Lawyer, Human rights activist

Les deux Nazanine (Two Nazanins) French TV new Documentary

  

After Nazanin Fatehi’s freedom , French Television contacted Nazanin Afshin-Jam about their desire to make a documentary about the two Nazanin’s. Necessary arrangements were made for French TV to meet Nazanin Fatehi in Iran and both Nazanin’s were interviewed in Iran and Paris. After few months of production the documentary was shown on French Television today.

In the film Nazanin Fatehi for the first time goes back to the park were the attempted rape took place. For the first time Nazanin Fatehi also reveals the suicide attempt marks on her arm, from the time period that she was awaiting execution in prison. She explains how the prison officials even encouraged her to commit suicide by telling her that they prefer to see her dead.

Film also shows few emotional moments between the two Nazanin. 

The documentary is in French language. The film starts after a short commercial by French TV:

http://videos.tf1.fr/video/emissions/septahuit/0,,3450607,00-sept-huit-deux-nazanine-.html 

 

Delara Darabi's letter to Nazanin Afshin-Jam

 

 

 

 

 

(Nazanin in Persian means dear, lovely and precious. Delara has used the word Nazanin with interchangable with its meanings in her letter to Nazanin Afshin-Jam) 
  
For my Nazanin! The one who without seeing or knowing, has sympathized with Delara
  
Lord, In your name

Hello to precious, my unseen friend, Hi to my dear Nazanin

I thank and appreciate for all your honest and giving support. I don’t know, I even don’t know how this happened to me. After many years I still haven’t been able for even few minutes resolve it.
Lets not get to it,…… It has been a while that I have been wanting to write you but my hands were not helping…

Dear Nazanin, you live there…you struggle and shout and …I am here far away and all around me is filled with your letters, memories and hopes. Filled with kindness of all of you my unseen friends. Filled with your giving, lasting and pure kindness

My Lord! On the third bed of this cell , I am sitting in the corner of an accusation and I am writing to you… Kind Nazanin. I hope for the day that I can meet all of you kind people in person and to see you with my own eyes, Because I have already have felt your purity, kindness and your vast love with my heart…

I wish God gives enough life to Delara that she can complete all her purposes…Dear Nazanin, you don’t know how difficult it is when one sees that friends and dear ones move on with life but you stay stagnant and in one place.
My dear Nazanin, you don’t know how painful it is to see (in here) freedom of those who are proud that they murdered someone but in their own court (conscious) they represent themselves as innocent and not guilty and they even give themselves the right for what they had done and…

Dear Nazanin, I don’t know…. may be they are right, I am only afraid that I may not deserve so much blessing and attention from so many dear ones worldwide. I am afraid that I may not deserve all my pains. The sorrows, pains, insults, despise and falsifications that has become the meanings of my life…All the meaning of my life…

You are a human rights activist and you shout…
and I quietly and with no sound, I present to your beautiful eyes , the same rights and pains ..with no judgments or words…In silence you have heard and are hearing my screams more clear and more beautiful  don’t you?!
My heart has much to express but time is short and I am not allowed any control !!! Writing here is meaningless.
Everything here is fake and superficial. This world is worthless but a world filled with missions.

I don’t know if I will meet you my dear ones or we must leave the meeting to the the unseen world.
Anyway, Delara is not alone, Delaras are trapped in prisons and in need of God’s help and in need of defenders of human right and humanity!!!

I hope that you defend humanity and always be successful. The one who defends humanity and knowledge , is not a human but a true knower of God and knower of self. A reference, a gauge and a motive for life…and that is how you are …Nazanin (precious) of all ages.

You and I and all of us, human beings of the world came here with will but after a while we forgot everything… We live with different feelings, with perplexity and amazements and we still do not understand why?

I cry a lot, just like the spring clouds! with large droplets…have you ever seen it?! Yes my cries are because when I
was could have loved I had shortcomings and now that I am loved, my hands are tight from everywhere an everyone.
I have never cried for being imprisoned, because my thoughts and my heart is free and is with you : the best

Delara May 8, 2007

Say hello to my true loving friends
Because every night during my prayer I pray for all the people of this large and vast house
I pray that one day everyone becomes a lover and we all be the guests of Lord’s vast feast

want to know ,that s you are ,wait for me untill the day i am not prison here!
(Above English Line was written by Delara)

Excuse me , my precious Nazanin If I wrote incorrect
Hope to see you…
ARAM , far and homesick
(Delara’s cell mates have given her the nickname of ARAM , which in Persian means Silent, calm and quiet)

برای نازنیتم

 !  آنکه نادیده و نشناخته …..با دل آرا همدردی نمود

خدایا به نام تو                                                                                                                                                 
سلام به نازنین یار نادیده ام،  

                                      سلام به نازنین عزیزم…
از تمامی حمایت های بی دریغ و بی ریا

و شاید بی دیللتان ممنون و سپاسگذارم،نمی دانم،خودم هم نمی دانم چطور این اتفاق برایم افتاد،بعد سالها هنوز نتوانستم آن چند دقیقه را برای خودم حلاجی کنم!
بگذریم،مدتها بود که می خواستم برایت بنویسم ولی دستهایم یاری نمی کرد…

نازنین جان تو در آنجایی و زندگی می کنی…تلاش می کنی و فریاد میزنی و…من اینجایم و دو ر تا دو رم از نامه ها وخاطره ها و امید های شما پر است،از محبت های شما دوستان نادیده ام،از لطف بی دریغ و همیشگی وپاک خدایم !                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                روی تخت سوم در کنج یک اتهام نشسته ام و برای تو نازنین مهربان می نویسم.آرزوی روزی را می کنم که همه شما مهربانان را از نزدیک و این دو چشم ملموس خود ببینم، چون پاکی و محبت و عشق ماورای شماها را قبلاًباچشمان دلم لمس کرده ام…امیدوارم خداوند آنقدر عمر به دل آرا بدهد تا تمام رسا لت هایش را بتوانہ f ب_e5 اتمام برساند…نازنین جان نمی دانی چقدر سخت است سالها رفتن دوستان و عزیزانت را ببینی و خودت در سکون غرق شده باشی و هی در جا بزنی!!! نازنینم نمی دانی چقدر دردناک است آزادی کسی راببینی که بارها و بارها از خود به خاطر قتلی که کرده تشکر کرده ودر دادگاه شخصی خود ،خود را بیگناه و تبرئه نموده و حتی حق خود دانسته که این کار را باید انجام می داده و…
نازنین جان نمی دانم شاید حق با آنها باشد ،من تنها از این می ترسم که لیاقت این همه لطف خداوند و توجه عزیزانم در سراسر دنیا را نداشته شم، ترسم از این است که لیاقت رنجهایم را نداشته باشم، همان رنجها ودردها و توهین ها وتحقیر ها و حق و نا حق کردنها که معنای زندگی ام شده اند…

تمام معنای زندگی ام …تو فعال حقوق بشری و فریاد می زنی! ومن آرام و بی صدا همان حق ها ودردها را به نگاه زیبای شما تقدیم میکنم، بی هیچ قضاوت یا حرفی….در سکوت فریاد ها را زیباتر وشیواتر میشنوید وشنیدید…مگر نه؟!
خلاصه حرف دل بسیار است و وقت کم واختیار بی اختیار!!!اینجا نوشتن معنا ندارد، اینجا همه چیز فرمالیته و ظاهریست.

نمی دانم من در این دنیای بی ارزش ولی پررسالت  شما دلبندانم را ملاقات خواهم کرد یا وعدهء مان به دنیایی نادیده موکول شود، در هر حال دل آرا تنها نیست ،دل آرا هایی در زندانها اسیرند که محتاج کمک خدا و حما یت حامیان انسانیت و بشریت اند!!!
امیدوارم از انسانیت دفاع کنی وهمیشه موفق باشی ؛آنکه از انسانیت ومعرفت دفاع می کند،انسان نیست یک خدا شناس ِخود شناس ِتمام عیار است ،یک ملاک و معیار و انگیزه برای زندگی است…

                                                                                             و تو نازنین تمام اعصار  اینچنینی!!!
من و تو و همه ی ما انسانهای دنیا با  ا راده به دنیا آمده ایم ،بعد از مدتی همه چیز یادمان رفت….با حیرت و شگفتی و احساسهای دیگر زندگی می کنیم و باز نمی فهمیم چرا؟…

و آخر هم با حسرت از تعدادمان روی  کره خاکی کم و کمتر میشود و باز هم نمی فهمیم چرا؟!!
من گریه زیاد می کنم، درست مثل ابر بهاری !با قطره های درشت…تا حالا دیده ای؟!   آری گریه ام به خاطر این است که آن زمان که باید دوست می داشتم ، کوتاهی کردم و حالا که دوستم دارند ، دستم از همه جا و همه کس کوتاه شده است ،هرگز برای در بند بودن نگریسته ام زیرا که اندیشه وقلبم آزاد است و پیش شما بهترینها…   
                                                                                                                                                                                   

 دل آ را   86/2/18
 سلام مرا به همه ی دوستداران ِواقعی ام برسان

 چون من هر شب سر نماز برای تمام انسانهای این خانه ی بزرگِ بی در و پیکر دعا میکنم ! دعا می کنم که روزی همگی عاشق هم باشیم وبا هم روی سفره با وسعت ِخدا میهمان باشیم!
want to know ,that s you are ,wait for me untill the day i am not prison here!

                        اگر اشتباه نوشتم منو ببخش نازنینم.. 
                                                                              به امید دیدار….
    آرام دور و دلتنگ…

               

Nazanin Afshin-Jam on Voice of America Television & Radio

US is the last stop and the last  phase of Nazanin Afshin-Jam’s current media campaign, Today, Nazanin Afshin-jam was interviewed during a one hour program by Voice of America Television and Radio (in Persian). This program is broadcasted and widely viewed in Iran. The contents of the program are also directly monitored by the Iranian regime.

During this interview Nazanin talked in detail about the stop child execution campaign and the more than 32 Iranian minors who are facing executions. Among those facing execution, she named Reza Alinejad and Delara Darabi. She told Delara’s story and the first portion of the recent documentary about Delara Darabi as well as Nazanin’s someday music video were shown. The program ended with supporting emails and phone calls to Nazanin by the viewers in Iran, Middle East and Europe.  

To view the program in Persian please click here:  

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Nazanin Afshin-Jam will be on " Oreilly Factor" tonight (FOX NEWS TV )

STATION: FOX NEWS TELEVISION 

PROGRAM:   ”OREILLY FACTOR

SEGMENT:   UNRESOLVED PROBLEMS (getting a pass?)

SUBJECT:    All over the world, the misdeeds of the Iranian government are being played down

GUEST:       Nazanin Afshin-Jam

Eastern Times

 

8:00pm – 9:00pm

 

The O’Reilly Factor


11:00pm – 12:00am The O’Reilly Factor (rerun)

4:00am – 5:00am The O’Reilly Factor (rerun)

Pacific Times

5:00pm – 6:00pm The O’Reilly Factor

8:00pm – 9:00pm The O’Reilly Factor (rerun)

1:00am – 2:00am The O’Reilly Factor (rerun)

NAZANIN AFSHIN-JAM FLIES TO AMESTERDAM TO RALLY FOR DELARA

Bodog Music Media Release 

NAZANIN AFSHIN-JAM FLIES TO AMSTERDAM IN A DESPERATE
BID TO SAVE ANOTHER GIRL FROM DEATH ROW IN IRAN

Amsterdam, Netherlands (April 26, 2007) - Bodog Music recording artist and world renowned humanitarian, Nazanin, is once again speaking out for an extremely important cause. This time her attention is focused on the life of a young girl on the execution row named Delara Darabi, who is being denied a fair trial for an alleged murder when she was 17 years old . Delara is a gifted painter/artist who now calls herself “prisoner of colors”

On Saturday, April 28, Nazanin will be in Amsterdam to rally for support at the art exhibit where Delara Darabi’s paint works are being displayed. Nazanin will speak on behalf of Miss Darabi’s cause and the plight of the many other minors who are imprisoned in Iran.
Broken heart and spirit, Delara has been struggling to survive. Spending three difficult years in prison, she has been locked away since she was 17 years old; she has even attempted to take her own life recently because of the pressures of prison life and beatings in prison.

Darabi’s attorney, Abdolsamad Khoramshahi, has gathered new evidence which proves her innocence. He has declared that examiners have shown the crime was committed by a right handed person, while Darabi is left handed. Despite Mr. Khoramshahi’s requests to present this new evidence in court, the Judiciary has refused to provide a new trial and accordingly Darabi’s sentence can be carried out at any moment

Nazanin Afshin-Jam successfully launched a campaign that gave freedom to her 17-year old namesake, Nazanin Fatehi, who was sentenced to death in Iran for having stabbed one of three attackers who tried to rape her and her 15-year old niece. She has since launched www.StopChildExecutions.com, a campaign to put a permanent end to child executions.

“There are over 30 minors on death row in Iran,” Nazanin said. “The Islamic Republic of Iran is the only country in the world that continues to officially execute minors and this must be stopped immediately”

Nazanin Afshin-Jam has contacted the United Nations, trying to gather support from government officials to pressure the Iranian government to abide by human rights law and urges the public for support: “Delara Darabi has no voice in prison, and no hope. This is our last chance to have her cries heard aloud.”

Nazanin is asking people worldwide to go to www.StopChildExecutions.com to learn about Delara Darabi and the other minors on death row, and pay particular attention to the “what you can do section.”

“It is not too late; your voice really can make a difference,” Nazanin said.

For those looking to show support for this very important cause, a rally will be held at the Pakhuis de Zwijger on April 28, between 1400 and 1700 Hours local time.

Address is as follows: Pakhuis de Zwijger (www.bezwijger.nl) -Pietheinkade 181, 1019, HC, Amsterdam.

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