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Urgent help needed to save the life of Pegah Emambakhsh

Stephanie Warrick | 24.08.2007 00:18 | Gender | Repression | Sheffield

Assistance is needed urgently from journalists to publicise the case of Pegah Emambakhsh, who is due to be deported to Iraq from the UK within the next three days. She faces imprisonment and execution for the crime of having been in a sexual relationship with another woman. Note to Editor: Although this case was previously reported on Indymedia UK, photographs, petition link and contact details for the Home Secretary were not included. This is NOT a simple repost.

Pegah Emambakhsh
Pegah Emambakhsh

Pegah Emambakhsh
Pegah Emambakhsh


Stop the Deportation of Pegah Emambakhsh!

August 23, 2007: Please take urgent action to halt the deportation of Pegah Emambakhsh, who is due to be deported from the UK to Iran within three days. You may help to save her life.

If returned to Iran, Pegah faces imprisonment and stoning to death. Her crime in Iran is her sexual orientation - she was in a relationship with another woman.

Here are a couple of photos of Pegah. She is described by those who know her as "charming, incredibly kind, honest and intelligent".

Pegah escaped from Iran claiming asylum in the UK after her lover was arrested, tortured and subsequently sentenced to death by stoning. Her father was also arrested, tortured and interrogated about her whereabouts.

According to Iranian human rights campaigners, over 4000 lesbians and gay men have been executed since the Ayatollahs came to power in 1979. The Border and Immigration Agency have chosen not to believe that she is in danger if returned to Iran even though the terrible situation that gay people face there is well documented.

The British government will be committing a serious miscarriage of justice and human rights violation if they deport Pegah.

1. SIGN THE PETITION

http://www.petitiononline.com/pegah/petition.html

2. FAX OR E-MAIL THE HOME SECRETARY

Please also contact the UK Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith MP, and ask her to intervene urgently to halt the deportation. A fax is the most effective form of communication. If you are unable to fax, then please send an e-mail.

NB It is essential to quote the Home Office reference number: B1191057

Fax: 020 7035 3262 (+44 20 7035 3262) -- Home Secretary's General Office

E-mail: smithjj@parliament.uk ; homesecretary.submissions@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk

Stephanie Warrick
- e-mail: xocotosca-pegah@yahoo.com

Additions

Pegah Emambakhsh - not being deported on Tuesday!

24.08.2007 13:01

Recent removal directions for Pegah had been deferred and it was
understood that new removal directions had been set for a British
Airways flight on Tuesday. Glady, this seems to have been a mistake
and there are no new removal directions. Please do not fax British
Airways. But please do continue to send letters to the Home Secretary
insisting that Pegah is released from Yarl's Wood Removal Centre.
Many apologies to British Airways and all the campaigners that faxed
them. A revised posting, including a "model letter" to the Home
Secretary @
 http://www.ncadc.org.uk/emmaginnsfolder/emmaginnsfolder/aug%2007/pegah.htm

NCADC news service/ repost


Italian TV (RAI2) reporting the story

24.08.2007 17:53

Yeah RAI2 ran a pretty tough report about this lady including footage of people being stoned to death.
They also mentioned that there had been an appeal to the Italian Government to give her asylum.
It was a pretty long feature on the lunch time news and I would imagine that it is quite a big story in Italy.
So maybe there is a real chance for her in Italy I hope she can get a deal with the Italians before Brit Labour Nazis put her on a plane to Iran.. maybe shame the bastards into letting her stay.

Some of the mainstream press are sympathetic too and I just realized how big the story is in Italy.

Salviamo Pegah dalla lapidazione
 http://www.repubblica.it/2007/08/sezioni/esteri/gb-iran-pegah/gb-iran-pegah/gb-iran-pegah.html

Bruto


Comments

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Deportation to IRAN

24.08.2007 00:38

There is a serious typo in the abstract (the destination is Iran, not Iraq).

Re the missing photographs and atrocious layout - I assumed wrongly that this site would read HTML.

I have tried without success to upload media files. If anyone wants links to the photographs then please e-mail me.

Stephanie Warrick


bbc and other media are hiding this news

24.08.2007 23:19

i'm italian but live in sheffield.

this is our message of support published on reset, an italian independent magazine:

 http://reset.netsons.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=619

on 27th august there will be a pacific demonstration outside the english embassy in rome.

paolo margari
mail e-mail: pm_uk_79@libero.it
- Homepage: http://www.paolomargari.tk


italy offers asylum to pegah

24.08.2007 23:25

the italian minister barbara pollastrini proposed to offer political asylum to pegah.
_________

(AGI) - Roma, 24 ago. - "E' condivisibile e va sostenuta la proposta espressa dal ministro Pollastrini, affinche' l'Italia dia asilo a Pegah Emambakhsh che il barbaro governo iraniano vuole lapidare, perche' lesbica". Lo ha detto Fabrizio Cicchitto, vicecoordinatore di FI. (AGI) - published on yahoo! news italia

Paolo Margari
mail e-mail: pm_uk_79@libero.it
- Homepage: http://www.paolomargari.tk


Please support John Bosco Nyombi

17.09.2008 17:49

He is at serious risk of imminent deportation

Mark Phillipson
- Homepage: http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=75430080454


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