Report no.4 from “Save Kobra!” Campaign

Expansion of global supports

The execution of Kobra has been delayed for another month and this time Shahroodi, the chairman of Judiciaries body of Iran, declared that he has heard the voice of protest from people and he will respect this voice and will do his best to prevent Kobra’s execution. But this is not all. There has been request for parole for Kobra, which is one of the rare cases among execution convicts.

All of this successes is the result of effort of all those who struggle to nullify the execution decree of Kobra and other convicts and, in the next step, to abolish the Capital Punishment. All those who, with signing petitions and the letter of Kobra and her Father, stand up to help Kobra and other execution convicts. All those who set up protest Actions and Demos and informed the “Public” that Mr.Shahroodi is talking about.

There has been an enormous support from numberless people to save Kobra’s life and we have declared some of them in the signatories and supports section of the website and we have stated a summary of it in our past 3 reports. The support for this campaign continues and more people and organizations and bodies have joined the ranks of the campaign supporters. This includes Indian and American Section of International Committee to Protect Freethinkers (ICPF) that has dedicated a section of its bulletin to Kobra and has referred its readers to our website for more information. A society of Noble prize winners has also declared that it will try to attract the support of all Noble Prize winners and has declared its will for further cooperation…. And in Tuscany, Italy 30^th of November, which is the day of abolition of Capital Punishment in this state, has been named after Kobra and there will be a gathering for Kobra in all cities of this state. Also the council representative of this state has written a letter to Romano Prodi, the prime minister of Italy, to ask Italian government to use its full power to save Kobra. Amnesty International has issued support also.

The presence of people in Tehran streets and especially in front of United Nations office in Tehran was also an important event. For the first time, the issue of nullify of an execution decree and eventually, abolition of Capital Punishment in Iran has been a main issue in the society. The presence of people in streets and the international declaration of support is the result of efforts of all of us and have caused Mr. Shahroodi to respect it.

This was one of the important achievements of this campaign. To transform the opposition to Capital Punishment from an issue for a few activist to a main issue in the society. We should continue our struggle to abolish the Capital Punishment.

In continuation of our activities, a letter from number of execution convicts has been sent to Kofi Anan and Human Rights organizations, demanding their help. Many of these convicts are even deprived of having a lawyer, because of poverty. Herby we ask all of those who identify themselves with this movement to help this people for their voices to reach the world.

The letter can be found here: http://www.save-kobra.blogfa.com/post-20.aspx

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October 18^th, 2006