Sign Petition please! Iranian woman Pakhshan Azizi is going to be executed
Update February 6, 2025: Urgent global action is needed to halt the imminent execution of Kurdish humanitarian worker, Pakhshan Azizi. Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected the request for judicial review of the conviction, highlighting how the Iranian authorities remain adamantly resolved to use death penalty as a tool of political repression. Her lawyer, Amir Raesian, said he was notified of the decision on 5 February and that her execution could now be carried out at any moment.
Pakhshan Azizi was convicted of “armed rebellion against the state” solely in relation to her peaceful human rights and humanitarian activities, including providing humanitarian support to women and children displaced following attacks by the Islamic State armed group and sheltering in camps in northeast Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq between 2014 and 2022.
On 4 August 2023, Ministry of Intelligence agents arbitrarily arrested Pakhshan Azizi from her family home in Tehran and subjected to her an enforced disappearance, a crime under international law, by refusing to disclose her whereabouts to her family.
She was held in prolonged solitary confinement for five months without access to a lawyer and her family, subjected to torture and other ill-treatment during interrogations. Agents repeatedly told her that she had no right to live and threatened to execute her.
In early December 2023, she was transferred to the women’s ward of Evin prison. Pakhshan Azizi’s trial, which took place over two sessions on 28 May and 16 June 2024, was grossly unfair. She was denied adequate time and facilities to prepare her defence.
Sign the petition below and join us in demanding the Iran authorities halt plans to execute Pakhshan Azizi, quash her conviction and death sentence and release her immediately and unconditionally.
https://action.amnesty.org
https://action.amnesty.org.au/act-now/iran-free-activist-pakhshan-azizi-sentenced-to-death
This one below seems to be the only amnesty site that allows you to sign it without any of the usual bullcrap of registering etc.
https://www.amnesty.ie/iran-kurdish-woman-death-penalty/