Save Houtan Kian and Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani from execution in Iran‏

international | rights, freedoms and repression | news report Wednesday March 02, 2011 19:12 by John Cornford - Hands Off the People of Iran

The Iranian regime has sentenced Houtan Kian, (the lawyer of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani), to death by hanging. Houtan Kian was arrested in October 2010 along with Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s son, and two German journalists during an interview. The other three have been released, Houtan Kian faces imminent execution. Moreover Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s death sentence has been confirmed. Upon hearing the news, it is reported that Sakineh attempted suicide but survived.

Houtan Kian’s only crime has been to defend a woman facing death by stoning. Sakineh’s only crime has been to be a woman in the Islamic Republic of Iran and under Sharia law.

More information on Sakinehs case at: http://www.indymedia.ie/article/97410

Act now: send your protests to the Iranian Embassy and the Iranian regime. Demand that the death sentences be lifted and that Houtan, Sakineh and all political prisoners be released.

Howzeh Riyasat-e Qoveh Qazaiyeh (Office of the Head of the Judiciary)
info@dadiran.ir

Ali Khamenei The Office of the Supreme Leader
info_leader@leader.ir

Secretary General, High Council for Human Rights
Mohammad Javad Larijani
bia.judi@yahoo.com ,

iranembassy@indigo.ie

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