Friends: URGENT ACTION is required on behalf of Sakine Mohammadi. This post includes the following:

1) The appeal from her children in English and Farsi (scroll down for Farsi)

2) Sample letters to send to

— the UN’s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights copied to Amnesty International

— the International Committee of the Red Cross

Two things to do:

1) Please send the sample letters adjusted per your preferences to the targeted recipients

2) Please send the children’s letter to your local newspaper with an explanation of why we need to support these children and take a stand against execution in Iran.

LETTER FROM THE CHILDREN OF SAKINE MOHAMMADI:

Do not allow our nightmare become a reality,

Protest against our mother’s stoning!

Today we stretch out our hands to the people of the whole world. It is now five years that we have lived in fear and in horror, deprived of motherly love. Is the world so cruel that it can watch this catastrophe and do nothing about it?

We are Sakine Mohammadi e Ashtiani’s children, Farideh and Sajjad Mohamamadi e Ashtiani. Since our childhood we have been acquainted with the pain of knowing that our mother is imprisoned and awaiting a catastrophe. To tell the truth, the term “stoning” is so horrific that we try never to use it. We instead say our mother is in danger, she might be killed, and she deserves everyone’s help.

Today, when nearly all options have reached dead-ends, and our mother’s lawyer says that she is in a dangerous situation, we resort to you. We resort to the people of the world, no matter who you are and where in the world you live. We resort to you, people of Iran, all of you who have experienced the pain and anguish of the horror of losing a loved one.

Please help our mother return home!

We especially stretch our hand out to the Iranians living abroad. Help to prevent this nightmare from becoming reality. Save our mother. We are unable to explain the anguish of every moment, every second of our lives. Words are unable to articulate our fear…

Help to save our mother. Write to and ask officials to free her. Tell them that she doesn’t have a civil complainant and has not done any wrong. Our mother should not be killed. Is there any one hearing this and rushing to our assistance?

Farideh and Sajjad Mohammadi e Ashtiani

Translation: Mission Free Iran

Disseminated by the Committee Against Stoning

Mina Ahadi

+49 177 569 2413

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SAMPLE LETTER TO NAVI PILLAY, UN High Commissioner for the Office of Human Rights:

Send to: npillay@ohchr.org, with copies to: urgent-action@ohchr.org, saneif@hrw.org

Dear Ms. Pillay,

I am writing to you with an urgent demand that you intervene with the authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, who are preparing to execute by stoning Sakine Mohammadi e Ashtiani. Stoning is a barbaric form of torture and execution that should be outlawed worldwide. It is your responsibility to step in and demand a halt to these proceedings.

The children of Ms. Mohammadi e Ashtiana have written a letter in her defense, and have issued a call to the world asking for help. Their letter is here; I suggest you read it, and then act according to their heartrending demands.

https://missionfreeiran.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/sakine-children-2

Sincerely,

[your name]

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SAMPLE LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS:

Send to: Florian Westphal (fwestphal@icrc.org) and Dorothea Krimitsas (dkrimitsas@icrc.org)

Dear Ms. Westphal and Ms. Krimitsas,

I am writing to you with an urgent request that you intervene with the authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran, who are preparing to execute by stoning Sakine Mohammadi e Ashtiani. Stoning is a barbaric form of torture and execution that should be outlawed worldwide. Multilateral organizations have thus far refused to step in and put a halt to the criminal actions perpetrated by the Islamic Republic. Your mandate encourages your organization to undertake the work of visiting prisoners in situations of internal violence, where the Geneva Conventions do not apply. I ask you to step in and demand a halt to these and other ongoing criminal and barbaric proceedings in the Islamic Republic

The children of Ms. Mohammadi e Ashtiana have written a letter in her defense, and have issued a call to the world asking for help. Their letter is here; please read it, and then act according to their heartrending demands.

https://missionfreeiran.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/sakine-children-2

Sincerely,

[your name]

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LETTER FROM SAKINE’S CHILDREN IN FARSI:

نگذاريد کابوس زندگيمان اتفاق بيفتد٬ به سنگسار شدن مادرمان اعتراض کنيد! امروز دست ياري به سوي همه مردم دنيا دراز ميکنيم. پنج سال است که بدون مهر مادري و با ترس و وحشت زندگي ميکنيم. آيا دنيا آنچنان ظالم است که ميتواند اين فاجعه را ببيند و راحت از آن عبور کند ؟ ما فرزندان سکينه محمدي آشتياني هستيم. فريده و سجاد محمدي آشتياني. از سنين نوجواني با اين درد آشنا شديم که مادرمان در زندان است و ما منتظر يک فاجعه نشسته ايم. راستش کلمه سنگسار٬ به خودي خود چنان ترسناک است که ما سعي ميکنيم هيچگاه از آن استفاده نکنيم. ما ميگوييم٬ مادرمان در خطر است٬ مادرمان مکنست کشته شود و مادرمان از همه انتظار دارد کمکش کنند. امروز که تقريبا همه راهها به بن بست رسيده و وکيل مادرمان ميگويد وضع مادر ما خطرناک است٬ به شما متوسل ميشويم. به مردم دنيا متوسل ميشويم٬ فرق نميکند رنگ پوستشان چيست و يا در کدام کشور و شهر زندگي ميکنند٬ به شما مردم ايران٬ به همه کسانيکه درد و زخم اينرا چشيده اند که کشته شدن يک عزيز خانواده چقدر وحشتناک است٬ متوسل ميشويم. کمک کنيد مادر ما به خانه برگردد! ما به ويژه دست ياري بسوي ايرانيان در همه جاي دنيا دراز ميکنيم. کمک کنيد اين کابوس متحقق نشود. کمک کنيد مادر ما نجات پيدا کند. واقعا توضيح دادن لحظه ها و ثانيه هاي زندگي ما بسيار سخت است. کلمات در مقابل اين وحشت ٬ گويايي خود را از دست ميدهند… کمک کنيد مادر ما نجات يابد. نامه بنويسيد و از مقامات بخواهيد او را آزاد کنند. بگوييد که او هيچ شاکي خصوصي ندارد و کاري نکرده است. مادر ما نبايد کشته شود. آيا اين حرف را کسي هست بشنود و به ياري ما بشتابد. فريده و سجاد فرزندان سکينه محمدي آشتياني باز تکثير از کميته بين المللي عليه سنگسار مينا احدي ۰۰۴۹۱۷۷۵۶۹۲۴۱۳