{"id":1659587,"date":"2007-04-03T06:41:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T23:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=1659587"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:44:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:44:30","slug":"amnesty-uk-sends-group-thinking-of-you-photo-to-delara-darabi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2007\/04\/03\/amnesty-uk-sends-group-thinking-of-you-photo-to-delara-darabi\/","title":{"rendered":"Amnesty UK sends group &#039;thinking of you&#039; photo to Delara Darabi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"left\" width=\"231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/images\/ai_logo.gif\" height=\"83\" style=\"width: 231px; height: 83px\" \/>During their Annual Gene<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">ral&#160;Meeting, Amnesty International UK asked all the attendants to sign a petition for&#160;<\/span>for Delara Darabi.&#160;In a letter to Stop Child Execution campaign Amnesty wrote: &#8220;They took a photo of them holding cards saying &#8216;thinking of you&#8217; in Farsi, which they are going to send to her lawyer.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">In&#160;a&#160;webpage&#160;called<\/span><\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/content.asp?CategoryID=2113\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Stop Child Executions in Iran<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">,&#160;<span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Amnesty UK&#160;features has featured few of the&#160;Iranian Youth&#160;facing executions with letters\/petitions that are&#160;addressed Iranian authorities:&#160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">AI has obtained more than&#160;<strong>14,000<\/strong> signatures on a&#160;Amnesty International petition&#160;for Delara Darabi directed to&#160; Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/span><\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.no\/web.nsf\/pages\/C3AB51604FBD1D0EC12572A0005383D1\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Delara Darabi&#8217;s Amnesty letter&#160;in English<\/span><\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">can be viewed&#160;at the Norway site of Amnesty International as the petition&#160;in UK has been closed at their annual conference.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">After delivering&#160;Delara&#8217;s signed petition&#160;to Iranian embassy in Norway,&#160;a member of the&#160;Amnesty International Norway wrote <em>:&#8221; <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">&#8230;they claimed that she would not be executed. At the same time, they said &#8220;this case does not actually exist&#8221;. We were not allowed inside the Embassy, but a representative came out, accepted the petition lists, and then told us to leave. &#8220;.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Both Amnesty Internationals of UK and Norway have referred their readers to<strong>&#160; <em>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong><em>Visit the &#8216;Help Delara&#8217; myspace page,&#160;<\/em><\/span><\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/helpdelara\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><em><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">myspace.com\/helpdelara<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><em>&#8220;<\/em>.&#160; Many of the&#160;myspace friends of Delara&#160;Darabi&#160;have<\/span><\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;friendID=56004879&amp;blogID=233748476&amp;Mytoken=D9BAAF8A-ECA3-4A79-AE919CB9815A17AB21126645\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">obtained signatures<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">&#160;from their friends and&#160;family and have also been responsible for smaller&#160;campaigns outside myspace with&#160;mass emails, arts, school projects etc.&#160;Delara&#8217;s&#160;online petition created and written by<\/span><\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aftonbladet.se\/vss\/rss\/story\/0,2789,973973,00.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Mani Azizzadeh<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">&#160;has surpassed <strong>10,000<\/strong><\/span><\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/mod_perl\/signed.cgi?DL2222\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">signatures<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">&#160;<span style=\"font-size: x-small\">to date&#160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Stop Child Executions&#160;Campaign&#160;has urged&#160;the Iranian&#160;authorities to&#160;halt the executions of&#160;alleged child offenders and&#160;instead encourage&#160;fair trials in accordance with&#160;international laws. Following open petitions and letters meet SCE&#160;demands:&#160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Stop Child Executions Petition<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/DL2222\/petition.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Save Delara Petition<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">&#160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/actions_details.asp?ActionID=94\" rel=\"noopener\">Stop Child Executions in Iran letter<\/a> (Amnesty International)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.no\/web.nsf\/pages\/C3AB51604FBD1D0EC12572A0005383D1\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Delara Darabi letter<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">&#160; (Amnesty International)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/actions_details.asp?ActionID=96\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Abbas Hosseini and Rasoul&#160;Mohammadi letter<\/span><\/span><\/a>&#160;<span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Amnesty International)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/actions_details.asp?ActionID=95\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Ali Mahin Torabi letter<\/span><\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Amnesty International)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><em><strong>Sources<\/strong>: Amnesty International<\/em>&#160;(AI), Delara Darabi myspace<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"left\" width=\"231\" src=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/images\/ai_logo.gif\" height=\"83\" style=\"width: 231px; height: 83px\" \/>During their Annual Gene<span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">ral&#160;Meeting, Amnesty International UK asked all the attendants to sign a petition for&#160;<\/span>for Delara Darabi.&#160;In a letter to Stop Child Execution campaign Amnesty wrote: &#8220;They took a photo of them holding cards saying &#8216;thinking of you&#8217; in Farsi, which they are going to send to her lawyer.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">In&#160;a&#160;webpage&#160;called<\/span><\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/content.asp?CategoryID=2113\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Stop Child Executions in Iran<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">,&#160;<span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Amnesty UK&#160;features has featured few of the&#160;Iranian Youth&#160;facing executions with letters\/petitions that are&#160;addressed Iranian authorities:&#160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">AI has obtained more than&#160;<strong>14,000<\/strong> signatures on a&#160;Amnesty International petition&#160;for Delara Darabi directed to&#160; Ayatollah Khamenei, the supreme leader of Islamic Republic of Iran.<\/span><\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.no\/web.nsf\/pages\/C3AB51604FBD1D0EC12572A0005383D1\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Delara Darabi&#8217;s Amnesty letter&#160;in English<\/span><\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">can be viewed&#160;at the Norway site of Amnesty International as the petition&#160;in UK has been closed at their annual conference.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">After delivering&#160;Delara&#8217;s signed petition&#160;to Iranian embassy in Norway,&#160;a member of the&#160;Amnesty International Norway wrote <em>:&#8221; <span style=\"font-family: Arial\">&#8230;they claimed that she would not be executed. At the same time, they said &#8220;this case does not actually exist&#8221;. We were not allowed inside the Embassy, but a representative came out, accepted the petition lists, and then told us to leave. &#8220;.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Both Amnesty Internationals of UK and Norway have referred their readers to<strong>&#160; <em>&#8220;<\/em><\/strong><em>Visit the &#8216;Help Delara&#8217; myspace page,&#160;<\/em><\/span><\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/helpdelara\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><em><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">myspace.com\/helpdelara<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><em>&#8220;<\/em>.&#160; Many of the&#160;myspace friends of Delara&#160;Darabi&#160;have<\/span><\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;friendID=56004879&amp;blogID=233748476&amp;Mytoken=D9BAAF8A-ECA3-4A79-AE919CB9815A17AB21126645\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">obtained signatures<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">&#160;from their friends and&#160;family and have also been responsible for smaller&#160;campaigns outside myspace with&#160;mass emails, arts, school projects etc.&#160;Delara&#8217;s&#160;online petition created and written by<\/span><\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aftonbladet.se\/vss\/rss\/story\/0,2789,973973,00.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Mani Azizzadeh<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">&#160;has surpassed <strong>10,000<\/strong><\/span><\/span> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/mod_perl\/signed.cgi?DL2222\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">signatures<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">&#160;<span style=\"font-size: x-small\">to date&#160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Stop Child Executions&#160;Campaign&#160;has urged&#160;the Iranian&#160;authorities to&#160;halt the executions of&#160;alleged child offenders and&#160;instead encourage&#160;fair trials in accordance with&#160;international laws. Following open petitions and letters meet SCE&#160;demands:&#160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Stop Child Executions Petition<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/DL2222\/petition.html\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Save Delara Petition<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">&#160;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/actions_details.asp?ActionID=94\" rel=\"noopener\">Stop Child Executions in Iran letter<\/a> (Amnesty International)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.no\/web.nsf\/pages\/C3AB51604FBD1D0EC12572A0005383D1\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Delara Darabi letter<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">&#160; (Amnesty International)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/actions_details.asp?ActionID=96\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Abbas Hosseini and Rasoul&#160;Mohammadi letter<\/span><\/span><\/a>&#160;<span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Amnesty International)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/actions_details.asp?ActionID=95\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">Ali Mahin Torabi letter<\/span><\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">(Amnesty International)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><em><strong>Sources<\/strong>: Amnesty International<\/em>&#160;(AI), Delara Darabi myspace<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,2,22,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196508,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659587\/revisions\/5196508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}