Amnesty International<\/a> said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\u201cShe is due to be executed by hanging as soon as this Thursday (13 October). Amnesty has launched an \u2018Urgent Action\u2019 campaign on behalf of Sekaanvand, with its supporters sending urgent appeals on the case to the Iranian authorities,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
Amnesty International\u2019s Middle East and North Africa Research and Advocacy Director Philip Luther said: \u201cThis is an extremely disturbing case. Not only was Zeinab Sekaanvand under 18 years of age at the time of the crime, she was also denied access to a lawyer and says she was tortured after her arrest by male police officers through beatings all over her body.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIran\u2019s continued use of the death penalty against juvenile offenders displays the authorities\u2019 contempt even for commitments they themselves have signed up to.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Iranian authorities must immediately quash Zeinab Sekaanvand\u2019s conviction and grant her a fair retrial without recourse to the death penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n
On October 9, the Women\u2019s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement: \u201cZeinab Sekanvand comes from a village near Makou (Western Azerbaijan Province, northwestern Iran). She was forced into marriage when she was 15 due to her family’s poverty. After two years of painful life, she was arrested at age 17 on the charge of killing her husband.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter her five years imprisonment, on October 3, Zainab was notified of the death penalty and since then she is on the death row.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran urges all international human rights and women’s rights organizations to take urgent action to save the life of Zeinab Sekanvan who is in the danger of imminent execution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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