His execution is set for next month.
Dear Friends,
I am Meghdad Alinejad from Fasa, Iran. My brother Reza has been in prison for past 5 years and is now facing imminent execution for a killing his attacker in self-defence when he was 17 years old.
This is the story: When Reza and his friend were on their way to home, two men started harassing them with profanities. Then one of them started to attack Reza with Nunchaku (a Japanese weapon used in marshal arts). Attackers then surrounded Reza so he couldn’t escape and injured him by a blow to his head. While Reza was defending himself from attackers one of them was stabed and killed.
Witnesses have testified that Reza was defencing himself.
The second attacker has testified that they (the attackers) started to attack Reza and his friend by Nunchaku and Reza was only defencing himself.
My brother needs your help. Please do whatever you can to save his life soon because his execution is scheduled to go ahead in one month.
Here are what you can do:
1. Sign this electronic petition :
http://www.petitiononline.com/RezaA/petition.html
2. Please write a letter to Iranian head of Judiciary Ayatollah Shahroudi asking for a stay of execution and a fair re-trial.
Head of the Judiciary,
His Excellency Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Justice Ministry BLDG. - Panzdah-Khordad (ARK) Sq.
Tehran, Iran
Phone: 98 (21) 3391-1109
Fax: 98 (21) 3390-4986
Email: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir
(In the email subject line write: URGENT LETTER TO AYATOLLAH HASHEMI SHAHROUDI )
Web: http://iranjudiciary.org/contactus-feedback-fa.html
Note: The fields are written in Persian. The first line is for your Name, 2nd your email, and the 3rd field is the subject which should read ‘URGENT LETTER TO AYATOLLAH HASHEMI SHAHROUDI’ and 4th field is for your comments)
For more information please see:
A. http://www.helpnazanin.com/Updates.aspx#20070301
B. http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&FriendID=11680226