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Saturday, May 02, 2009

Delara Darabi
Posted by Bob | 7:04 PM
The BBC's Jon Leyne in Tehran says that early on Friday morning Delara Darabi made a desperate phone call to her parents, saying she could see the hangman's noose.

"Mother they are going to execute me, please save me," she said, before a prison official took the phone away and said: "We are going to execute your daughter and there's nothing you can do about it."
Delara Darabi was hung on Friday in disregard of a stay of execution granted by the head of Iran's judiciary & international protests. She was 23 years old, had been convicted of a murder committed when she was 17 & for which she said she confessed to save her boyfriend. There was a strong possibility that this was the truth. Which shouldn't have mattered. Iran will not renounce the execution of juvenile offenders.

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Blogger RonMossad said...
This story is a shame but unfortunately nothing new for Iran or the greater Middle East. Nor was it the only stunningly awful event to take place there last week. I just wrote an article about this recently:

Death sentences for juveniles, real estate brokers and pigs: just another week in the Middle EastRIP Delara