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Kobra
Rahmanpour is a 22 year old woman, currently under the treat of being
hanged by the Islamic regime of Iran.
She had spent the past three years in prison and been convicted of
murdering her mother n law by a kitchen knife.
On the first of January this year she was woken up early in the
morning to be told that she was going to be hanged that day. But the
execution did not take place that day and it has been set to be carried
out in two months time. So
we have got less than two months to save her now.
Kobra
herself is a victim of poverty and injustice. She was born and raised in a
family that could not even provide the mere necessities of life for its
members. Her father is elderly and one of her brothers is disabled and
there is no welfare system to look after such people who are in need.
Kobra had to give up her ambitions of going to university, and in
order to help her family survive, married a man 40 years her senior.
But her life did not get better; in fact it was made hell by
repeated maltreatment and abuse se received from her husband and his
family.
In
one occasion he was even arrested and imprisoned for physically and
sexually abusing her. In the last incident according to Kobra, she was
attacked by her mother in law with a kitchen knife in her hand. Kobra
claims that she killed her mother in law in a self defence act.
Kora
Rahmanpour’s life and misery is not unique. She is one of thousands and
even millions of young people in particular young women whose lives, youth
and ambitions are ruined in the hands of Islamic regime. The Iranian
authorities are not fit to prosecute someone like Kobra.
They themselves are the worst criminals in the world. They should
be tried for the terrible hell they have created for people in Iran.
Execution
for whatever reason is an inhuman act and the Iranian government has got a
record in this filed. For the sake of justice we must save Kobra
Rahmanour.
Help
us in our campaign to make Iranian authorities withdraw the hanging
sentence of Kobra!
Write
protest letters to Iranian authorities and send us a copy.
The
International Campaign in Defence of Women’s Rights in Iran
2004-01-05
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