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Amnesty International
An Inconvenient Truth


Would you like to give an X-mas gift? No, not to me. To a deserving impoverished family in a third world country. My latest vision is this...
Heifer International.

They are an organization that's been around for many years, are accredited with the BBB, have received the Conrad Hilton Humanitarian award and have many endorsements from such people as President Jimmy Carter. I feel comfortable promoting them, I hope you will too.
http://www.heifer.org/myregistry/mjaorhyn (Ok, I just fixed the link.)

I plan to keep this registry open for quite some time so I'll keep track and post here what the totals add up to.

 


Hello family, I am asking you all to go to this website, Eteraz, to save these (two of seven) women's lives. This in not a joke. These two women are sentenced to death by stoning, one for the crime of self-defense of her own life and the other adultery. Quote: "The crime of adultery is also used in cases where a girl is deemed to have committed 'acts incompatible with chastity,' which includes instances of rape." This is real. Please tell anyone and everyone you know about this travesty to help save lives!
We have such a HUGE family, this really could impact these women.

Signatures for Kobra Rahmanpour - 2,215 as of 05/21/07. I don't know when this happened but "This petition has been closed to new signatures at the author's request."
Anti-death penalty arrests "On 24 September at least 10 people were detained while demonstrating peacefully outside the United Nations office in Tehran. They were protesting against the expected imminent execution of several women, including Kobra Rahmanpour, Fatemeh Haghighat-pajouh, Nazanin Fathehi and Shahla Jahed. Those arrested are reported to have included Shahin Zaynali and Ali Davoudi, both students at Esfahan University, but as yet this is not confirmed. Those arrested may have been taken to Police Station 128 in Gholhak and may have been released later in the day after signing undertakings about their future actions. Amnesty International has issued Urgent Actions on behalf of all these women currently under sentence of death." (25 September 2006)
Signatures for Malak Ghorbany - 18,299. As of 07/13/07
" In November (2005?), the Supreme Court rejected the sentence of stoning against Shamameh Ghorbani (known as Malek). Her case will be sent back to a lower court in the city of Oromieh, West Azerbaijan province, for a retrial." 28 September 2006

These links will take you to a page on Amnesty International, go down to the 9th and 10th paragraphs to read about them. Here is another page to "Take Action" by sending emails through Amnesty International to Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei - Leader of the Islamic Republic and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - President of Iran.This is the address of the site where I was first directed to for this issue. http://eteraz.wordpress.com/2006/10/04/stand-against-women-stoned-to-death-you-apathetic-monsters/This is the petition for Kobra http://www.petitiononline.com/kobrar/petition.html This petition has been closed to new signatures at the author's request.This is the petition for Malak http://www.petitiononline.com/Malak/