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A few calls for help

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 18, 2013
  • 0 Comments
  • atheist, ex-muslim, execution, Iran
Protest executions in Iran Kamil Alboshoka, a human geography student at Kingston University has asked that I publicise his campaign to defend 5 Ahwazi Arabs facing execution in Iran, including members of his family and friends.  Mohammad Ali Amouri, Sayed Jaber Alboshoka and his brother Sayed Mokhtar Alboshoka, and teachers Hashem Sha’bani Amouri, and Hadi Rashidi (or Rashedi) are charged with “enmity […]
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People of Marivan, Iran, stage a general strike against death sentences

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 13, 2013
  • 5 Comments
  • execution, Iran, Loghman and Zanyar Moradi
Saturday, 12 January 2013 The people of Marivan, in the Kurdistan province in western Iran, have today staged a general strike to protest the death sentences against Zanyar and Loghman Moradi. The strike comes following a call for strike by the International Committee against Execution (ICAE) and the families of the Moradis and a worldwide […]
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List of protests against Execution of Zanyar and Loghman Moradi

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 10, 2013
  • 2 Comments
  • execution, Iran, Loghman, Moradi, Zanyar
Zanyar and Loghman Moradi, two young men, face imminent execution in Iran on trumped up charges of “enmity against god” and “corruption on earth”. Zanyar asks: “Is the world so cruel as to stand by and watch [our] public execution and say and do nothing?”. Please say and do something now… Join below protests in […]
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I dreamed that god would be forgiving

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 10, 2013
  • 2 Comments
  • execution, Iran, Zanyar and Loghman Moradi
UPDATED INFORMATION ON 11 and 12 JANUARY PROTESTS AGAINST IMMINENT EXECUTION OF THE MORADIS “I despair thinking of death; I do not want to be buried with my dreams.” This is 21 year old Zanyar Moradi’s plea in a letter distributed by the International Committee against Execution. He awaits imminent execution along with his cousin […]
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A killing spree

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On October 22, 2012
  • 12 Comments
  • execution, Iran
In the past 48 hours, the Islamic regime of Iran executed 13 people (in a report received by Mina Ahadi and the International Committee against Execution). 3 were executed this Sunday on charges of ‘corruption’ and ‘enmity against god’ in Sistan Baluchestan, namely Yahya Charizehi, Abdoljalil Kahrazehi and Abdolbasset Rigi. 10 others, including Saeed Sadighi and a father […]
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Allah ordered the execution

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On July 10, 2012
  • 50 Comments
  • Afghanistan, execution, Taliban
Below is a Reuter’s report of a woman being executed near Kabul, Afghanistan by the Taliban this Sunday. It says she was accused of adultery and that Taliban members were ‘sexually involved’ with her, possibly via rape, and that she was tortured and killed to settle a dispute… Watching the very disturbing video, I can’t […]
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I want to live

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On January 22, 2012
  • 4 Comments
  • execution
So says the trembling voice of a 21-year-old youth in Karaj prison. Zaniar says that his death sentence and that of his cousin, Loqman, have been confirmed on appeal, but the prison authorities have not officially informed them. “Please do something”, he fearfully asks me. “I am very worried. They might call me at any […]
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What needs to be done at every execution

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 15, 2011
  • 2 Comments
  • execution
This is exactly what needs to be done with every execution: ‘Capital punishment is the state’s terminology for murder. Individuals murder each other, but states sentence individuals to ‘capital punishment.’ The demand to end capital punishment and prohibit murder stems from opposition to intentional, deliberate and planned murder of one by the other. That a […]
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