UN Stoning Call

We, the undersigned, are writing to ask that the UN General Assembly condemn stoning as a crime against humanity and issue an emergency resolution calling for an end to the medieval and barbaric punishment as well as the immediate release of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and others sentenced to death by stoning. 

We also ask that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad not be allowed to address the General Assembly and that his government be boycotted.  A government that still stones people to death in the 21st century must have no place in the United Nations or any other international institution or body. 

Click here to see signatories of open letter published in the Guardian, 21 September




 
Mina Ahadi's open letter to Nelson Mandela

Maryam Namazie's speech at Protest the Pope
London September 18 2010.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains,
but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.Nelson Mandela
Dear Mr. Mandela,
I am writing to appeal to you to intervene immediately in order to help save the life of a woman sentenced to be stoned to death or, at least, hanged imminently in Iran. Her Name is Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiaani, which, I presume, you are familiar with by now through the news about the on-going global campaign to save her life and free her from jail.
One example of the international efforts in this direction has been the offer of asylum for Sakineh and her family in Brazil by President Lula da Silva. Although the offer has been rejected by the regime, which, for all intents and purposes, is intent on killing her, it is an example the world needs to see followed by other heads of states. It will increase the international pressure – a tremendously effective force to which the Islamist regime will in the end have to surrender. ...