History Will Judge Us For Our Silence
Update On Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani
In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror, I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me. Standing behind me was a woman, with lips blue from the cold, who had, of course, never heard me called by name before. Now she stated out of the torpor common to us all and asked me in a whisper (everyone whispered there): “Can you describe this?” And I said: “Yes, I can.” Then something like a smile passed fleetingly over what had once been her face. ~ Anna Akhmatova ~ In a case which continues to confound Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the imprisoned Iranian woman, who has been sentenced to death, has been further grieved by a government which has imprisoned her son, as well as two German journalists who were trying to bring light into this darkness.Below is a link to sign a new petition to free both her son and the journalists. I urge you to take a few seconds and your name to the many voices who are demanding justice not just for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, but for all those who are unjustly imprisoned and persecuted.
Sadly, the world is filled with injustice, most of which goes unnoticed; but Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani plight has been well publicized, which is most likely what has kept her alive. Thus you and I have been given the opportunity to act; we can play a role in saving this woman’s life, as well as her son, the journalists and others, or we can be silent. That is all for now.
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-sakineh-mohammadi.html
