{"id":2255587,"date":"2007-11-03T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T22:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/?p=2255587"},"modified":"2023-04-13T05:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:25:23","slug":"delara-darabi-and-soghra-najafpour-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/2007\/11\/03\/delara-darabi-and-soghra-najafpour-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Delara Darabi and Soghra Najafpour updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\nNasrin Sotoudeh , the attorney of <strong>Soghra Najafpour<\/strong> told Nazanin Afshin-Jam that Soghra is still in hiding in fear of execution. Meanwhile Sotoudeh has not yet received any reply to her request for a re-trial submitted to&#160;Iran&#8217;s supreme&#160;court.&#160;<\/div>\n<div>\nNazanin Afshin-Jam also talked to the&#160;mother of <strong>Delara Darabi<\/strong>. She was told that Delara&#8217;s overall prison condition is better than the last one. Her family is allowed to visit her&#160;once a week for about&#160;15 to 25 minutes. Delara remains&#160;underweight because she does not like the prison food and usually eats biscuits, etc. She is still very depressed but&#160;keeps herself occupied with reading. She has not been able to paint o do some of her daily chores beacuse of&#160;an&#160;injury to her left hand.&#160;&#160;Delara has recently become very impatient and wants a resolution to her case.<\/div>\n<div>Delara has asked her parents for some books with paintings of famous painters such as Vincent VanGogh.<\/div>\n<div>Delara Darabi and Soghra Najafpour were friends in prison&#160;and the day that Soghra went to say good bye,&#160; she told Delara that she wished that it was Delara who was being freed instead of her . Soghra said&#160;that she has spent 18 years of her youth in prison and Delara is much younger&#160;and she really does not belong to prison among the&#160;some&#160;criminals.<\/div>\n<div>\nThere has not been any new changes in&#160;Delara Darabi&#8217;s legal file and like many other alleged child offenders, she is awaiting a response by the head of Iran&#8217;s judiciary, Ayatollah Hashemi Shahrudi.<\/div>\n<div>\nMeanwhile Amnesty International&#160; Australia,&#160;in its&#160;Christmas appeal this year, is&#160;focusing on the the subject of&#160;child execution&#160;in Iran.&#160; 21,000 of Amnesty Supporters will be&#160;receiving&#160;a mail pack with a letter about child executions in Iran, and&#160;a letter addressed to the Iran&#8217;s Head of the Judiciary to sign and send back to Amnesty to be forwarded to Ayatollah Shahrudi.<\/div>\n<div>\nDelara Darabi will be the main case study and the&#160;package also includes a&#160;double-sided postcard with two paintings from Delara Darabi which was&#160;provided to them this week by Stop Child Executions Campaign.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about Delara Darabi and Soghra Najafpour visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/the_row.aspx\">https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/the_row.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\nNasrin Sotoudeh , the attorney of <strong>Soghra Najafpour<\/strong> told Nazanin Afshin-Jam that Soghra is still in hiding in fear of execution. Meanwhile Sotoudeh has not yet received any reply to her request for a re-trial submitted to&#160;Iran&#8217;s supreme&#160;court.&#160;<\/div>\n<div>\nNazanin Afshin-Jam also talked to the&#160;mother of <strong>Delara Darabi<\/strong>. She was told that Delara&#8217;s overall prison condition is better than the last one. Her family is allowed to visit her&#160;once a week for about&#160;15 to 25 minutes. Delara remains&#160;underweight because she does not like the prison food and usually eats biscuits, etc. She is still very depressed but&#160;keeps herself occupied with reading. She has not been able to paint o do some of her daily chores beacuse of&#160;an&#160;injury to her left hand.&#160;&#160;Delara has recently become very impatient and wants a resolution to her case.<\/div>\n<div>Delara has asked her parents for some books with paintings of famous painters such as Vincent VanGogh.<\/div>\n<div>Delara Darabi and Soghra Najafpour were friends in prison&#160;and the day that Soghra went to say good bye,&#160; she told Delara that she wished that it was Delara who was being freed instead of her . Soghra said&#160;that she has spent 18 years of her youth in prison and Delara is much younger&#160;and she really does not belong to prison among the&#160;some&#160;criminals.<\/div>\n<div>\nThere has not been any new changes in&#160;Delara Darabi&#8217;s legal file and like many other alleged child offenders, she is awaiting a response by the head of Iran&#8217;s judiciary, Ayatollah Hashemi Shahrudi.<\/div>\n<div>\nMeanwhile Amnesty International&#160; Australia,&#160;in its&#160;Christmas appeal this year, is&#160;focusing on the the subject of&#160;child execution&#160;in Iran.&#160; 21,000 of Amnesty Supporters will be&#160;receiving&#160;a mail pack with a letter about child executions in Iran, and&#160;a letter addressed to the Iran&#8217;s Head of the Judiciary to sign and send back to Amnesty to be forwarded to Ayatollah Shahrudi.<\/div>\n<div>\nDelara Darabi will be the main case study and the&#160;package also includes a&#160;double-sided postcard with two paintings from Delara Darabi which was&#160;provided to them this week by Stop Child Executions Campaign.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about Delara Darabi and Soghra Najafpour visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/the_row.aspx\">https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/the_row.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,16,2,4,13,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255587"}],"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=2255587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196177,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255587\/revisions\/5196177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stopchildexecutions.com\/scenewsarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}