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Commentaire de yes,I CAN (30/04/2005 17:55) :
(Boston, MA) - The fundamentalist regime of Iran is planning to stone a
13-year-old girl, Jila, in the city of Marivan in coming days. Jila was
raped and impregnated by her brother and Iran's clerical judge has
sentenced her to death by stoning. According to the Iranian regime's
penal code, stoning is the punishment for those who commit adultery. Jila
did not commit adultery ; rather she is a victim of rape.
The stoning in Iran is carried out as "the condemned are wrapped head to
foot in white shrouds and buried up to their waists. " The misogynous
regime of Tehran even details the difference between the stoning of men vs.
women. "The female condemned are buried up to their neck to prevent their
escape." Furthermore, "the stones are specifically chosen so they are large
enough to cause pain, but not so large as to kill the condemned
immediately. They are guaranteed a slow, torturous death. Sometimes their
children are forced to watch." No other government in the world practices
stoning like the Iranian regime.
Women's Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran (WFAFI) calls upon the
international community and human rights organization to fight for
Jila's life and stop Tehran's regime from stoning her.
Iran's constitution does not offer women and young girls any
protection or due process in the court. There are no legal avenues open to
Jila to appeal the judge's decision. For this reason, WFAFI urgently
calls upon Mrs. Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, to
intervene on Jila's behalf and save her.
WFAFI also calls upon UNICEF to dispatch a fact-finding mission on this
case and save Jila. Gender violence in Iran is sharply rising and
increasingly claiming younger lives everyday.
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