It is with profound sadness that we report the following: Raheleh Zamani was executed today at dawn, Tehran time. She was hanged in Tehran's notorious Evin prison along with 11 others as snow fell silently all around ... frozen tears of crystalized anguish for the senseless murder of a 27 year old mother of two young children.
Raheleh, a woman suffering from battered wife syndrome, betrayed by her husband and her family, and, ultimately, by a legal system that should have attended to her medical needs instead of resorting to a brutal execution, is now at rest.
Raheleh, who came from a simple and uneducated family from a small village in Iran, was married off when she was only 15 years old. She endured years of abuse at the hands of her husband, and at the end, her in-laws watched the grim proceedings as she was hanged along with eleven others.
There are no words to adequately describe the grief we all feel.
Our sincere and heartfelt thanks goes to each person who reached out to help Raheleh with letters and petitions.
May this be a reminder that these cases are indeed in need of our intervention. Hopefully, we can gather more support for those whose cases are still classified as urgent to avert a repetition of this horrific and tragic ending to a precious life.
May she now rest in eternal peace.
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Comments: 11
My advice is to put this in perspective. I am not trying to minimize the atrocity. That is what it is. But don't let yourselves be manipulated by the media.
However Lily, it's a difficult job that you are doing in a region of the world that has religion as the foundation of the law, and that makes the work you do more difficult.
Religion and Law just don't work together.
I pray Rahini is finally at peace, free of pain and is in a special place reserved for women who have suffered for being the wrong gender.
Richard, you are correct. Religion and law as the basis of a society's judiciary, don't mix.
But you are minimizing the atrocity, Bert. Rather than seeing the unforgivable abuse of women in countries controlled by Islamo-Terrorists, you went right to the political calculation. Question: Why was it completely justifiable to liberate French people who were being abused by Nazis, but completely inappropriate to liberate Persians? Why Bert? Aren't they white enough for you?