Iroko

Two women on death row in Iran have recorded audio messages from their prison cells and asked the free world to save their lives. Now I bring their voices to you. Najmeh Amini is 23. An accounting student. Her crime? A post on social media. The regime calls it insulting the prophet. For one post, they will hang her. Mahboubeh Shabani is 33. During the protests, she carried wounded demonstrators to the hospital. Her crime? Saving lives. The regime calls it waging war against God. For saving lives, they will hang her. Let me be honest. Hashtags and tweets alone will not stop these executions. This regime only understands pressure. So I call on American, European, and world leaders: make these executions your red line. Tie every sanction, every deal, every negotiation to the lives of political prisoners. Demand their release now. Impose real costs for every hanging. Najmeh Amini and Mahboubeh Shabani must not die for the crime of freedom. Act now. Before it is too late.

Today, they hanged him. The Islamic Republic executed Ali-Sina Mostafavi, an Iranian mountaineer. Let’s be brutally honest. The Islamic Republic will not stop hanging people because we tweet, share hashtags, or beg for mercy. We Iranians wake up every day knowing that another family may receive a phone call announcing that their loved one has been executed. How many more bodies must hang before world leaders understand that condemnation without consequences is not a policy? The United Nations has documented serious human rights violations, forced confessions, and grossly unfair trials in Iran. This is not a lack of information. It is a lack of political will. Stop treating executions as a routine human rights concern. Treat them as an international emergency. We, the people of Iran, are exhausted from burying our loved ones while the world issues statements. We are not asking you to save us with your sympathy. We are demanding that you stop granting impunity to those who kill us.