Shaheen Burney condemned merciless execution of a woman in Public in Iran: KARACHI, Pakistan: The human and civil rights organization “Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International” has strongly condemned the mercilessly hanging and killing of a woman in public, in Tehran, Iran. Human rights activist and Vice Chairperson of the Trust, Mrs Shaheen Burney, has said in an statement that a young woman, Fariba Tajiani-Emamqoli, 30, crying for justice on Monday, March 19 before being hanged at dawn for alleged drug trafficking in a poor quarter of Tehran, watched by thousands of people with tears in their eyes. Fariba, blindfolded and with her hands tied, crying for justice from the Muslims Court judges but her hue and cry was ignored and she was hanged from a crane set up in the eastern Khak-e-Sefid district in Tehran. Shaheen Burney said that Fariba was mercilessly hanged/killed in a public crowd, less than four weeks after her arrest, along with 4 others were Ali Alipour, Ibrahim Qaemshari, Ali-Kazem Aslani and Framan Qaremani-Aazara, all about the same age as their Alleged companion. Shaheen said that according to the eye witnesses the bodies being hanged for 15 minutes before being taken down. “By mercilessly killing a young woman in public and carrying out this international human rights crime on the eve of the Iranian New Year, the fundamentalist so-called mullahs (Muslims so-called priests) tried to terrorize and intimidate the innocent people of Iran who have expressed their rage and repugnance at the present government during the "feast of fire" celebrations few days before”. Shaheen Burney added. END. ANSAR BURNEY WELFARE TRUST INTERNATIONAL (Human and Civil Rights Organization) website: http://www.ansarburney.org ************************************ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Shaheen Burney condemned merciless execution of a woman
Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:46:39 -0800