Iran rushes a woman to the gallows
In case you hadn’t noticed, the ruling regime in Iran is a throwback to barbarism. Latest case in point: Delara Darabi.
The prison authorities hanged Miss Darabi, 23, even though the head of Iran’s judiciary granted her a two-month stay of execution on April 19 amid international outrage over her case. They also did not give her lawyer the required 48 hours notice.
Horrific new details have emerged of her last desperate plea for help from Rasht prison as jail guards came to lead her away.
Miss Darabi made a tearful call early on Friday to her parents to say she could see the gallows and noose, according to media reports from Tehran.
“Mother they are going to execute me, please save me,” she pleaded. But a prison official then grabbed the phone and told her distraught mother: “We are going to execute your daughter and there’s nothing you can do about it.”