Zeynab Jalalian and Hossein Khezri are awaiting execution in Iran. Their crime? "Enmity against God." They are both members of the minority Party for Free Life of Kurdistan, and the Iranian government is using this catch-all phrase to persecute political dissenters under the guise of a religious charge.
These prisoners, and the Iranian people, deserve a fair government, fair trials, and the right to express basic human rights without punishment.
Their sentencing is unjust, their treatment while imprisoned atrocious: Jalalian was told "shut up" when she asked to say goodbye to her mother. She was granted access to a lawyer -- but only for a few minutes. The EU "is profoundly concerned by the repeated sentencing to death in Iran of people belonging to minorities, as well as of those who were involved in the post-election protests." Five people were hanged for similar "offenses" on May 9.
Stop the Iranian government's execution spree. Encourage Ayatollah Sayed 'Ali Khamenei, the Leader of the Islamic Republic, not to execute Jalalian and Khezri, and to retry them with a fair trial according to international law.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/350/488/764
The Party for Free Life of Kurdistan:
It is a militant Kurdish nationalist group with bases in the mountainous regions of northern Iraq ...
has been carrying out numerous attacks in western Iran, southern Turkey and the northeastern parts of Syria where the Kurdish populations live. It is mainly focused on replacing Iran's theocracy with a democratic and federal government, where self-rule is granted to all ethnic minorities of Iran, including Sunni, Arabs,Azeris, and Kurds.
