Pakhshan Azizi dedicated her life to helping others – then she was taken. Iran tortured her and kept her in solitary confinement for five months . Now they want to execute her! People across the world are mailing letters to Tehran to save Pakhshan’s life and show Iran’s repressive leadership that we're watching. Let’s join them and demand her release! Sign and share now.
FREE PAKHSHAN ( [link removed] )
Dear friends,
She spent years supporting women and children in refugee camps in Syria,
dedicating her life to peaceful humanitarian and human rights work.
Now she’s facing death by hanging.
Iranian intelligence agents disappeared Kurdish social worker Pakhshan Azizi,held her in solitary confinement for months , and tortured her. Pakhshan managed to get a letter out last summer, describing her ‘interrogations’: they would repeatedly hang her, or bury her 10 metres underground – then pull her back up. The horror is unimaginable. Now, following a bogus trial, Iran sentenced Pakhshan to death.
We still have time to save her!
Human rights activists are calling on people across the world to protest and demand Pakhshan's release. Join this urgent call to Iran's Head of Judiciary now! When our call gets massive, we’ll deliver our demands throughsmart ads and media pressure – showing Iran’s authorities that the world is watching.
Sign to save Pakhshan ( [link removed] )
Global pressure has helped stop executions in Iran in the past, and that was before
regional conflict weakened the regime. People around the world are already writing to Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, the head of Iran's judiciary! Let’s join the global call for justice and demand Pakhshan’s freedom.
Sign to save Pakhshan ( [link removed] )
A public outcry against Pakhshan’s execution isn't just about saving her life:
it shows Iran that the world hasn’t forgotten about its deadly repression.
Our movement has stood up for political prisoners and against executions many times before: Over a million of us joined the call to stop Amal’s death by stoning in Sudan, we came together to demand freedom for 27-year old Iranian Mohammad and to free Ahed in Palestine. Let’s become a lifeline again!
With fierce hope and determination,
Alice, John, Nate, Antonia, Christoph, and the rest of the Avaaz team
More information: Iran: Kurdish Woman Activist Sentenced to Death: Pakhshan Azizi ( [link removed] ) (Amnesty International) Death Sentence for Kurdish Activist Pakhshan Azizi Upheld; IHRNGO Calls for a Strong Global Response ( [link removed] ) (Iran Human Rights) Iran: UN experts alarmed as Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Kurdish woman activist ( [link removed] ) (United Nations News) Imminent Risk of Execution of Kurdish Woman Activist After Grossly Unfair Trial ( [link removed] ) (Center for Human Rights Iran) Fears grow for rights activists jailed in Iran after 87 executions in one month ( [link removed] ) (Guardian)
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