Former political prisoner supporting petition to stop child executions
Among the growing supporters of the Stop Child Executions who have signed the SCE petition is AmirAbbas Fakhravar , journalist, author and former political prisoner of conscious in Iran.
Nazanin Afshin-Jam and SCE campaign apprecaite Mr. Fakhravr's' support of the Stop Child Executions campaign.
AmirAbbas Fakhravar ( امیر عباس فخرآور ) is an Iranian writer, activist and former journalist for the now banned pro-reform 
daily newspapers. While in Iran he called for constitutional referendum to rescind the powers of the Supreme Leader and Council of Guardians. After prior imprisonments on new years eve of 2000, AmirAbbas was taken from his home to the Evin prison and tortured heavily until he had to be transferred to hospital in Tehran for emergency treatment. Fakhravar had been imprisoned in Iran for his political activism 19 times, with his first experience at the age of 17, when he was still in high school.
Fakhravar entered United Stated in April 2006. Since then he has met president Bush, many others in US government and also has testified in the US congress. Fakhravar is the founder of the Iranian Freedom Movement and is also the chairman of the Independent student movement.
AmirAbbas Fakhravar while in prison.
Kamberzai
Delara is being kept in a prison in city of Rasht near Caspian sea in Iran. This year the excessive heat and humidity has made the living conditions in the prison very difficult. Last week Delara and other prisoners were forced to attend a religious occasion in the prison yard for long hours. By the time Delara was allowed to come back inside she was ill and had to be rushed for medical treatment due to heat exhaution.
siblings to his father who was a drug addict. According to Islamic Sharia laws of Iran, the custody of children are given to the fathers. Masoud and his 2 siblings did not like to live with their father and grandmother. Not only they were very old and incapable of caring for them but they also they mistreated them. Although the father was very well to do but the children were also financially deprived. The father and grandmother were always angry with the children because their mother had divorced their addict father.
is one of today's preeminent Chicana writers. She has written several plays such as Simply Maria, Or the American Dream; Confessions of Women From East L.A.; Boyle Heights; Lola Goes To Roma; Food For The Dead; Unconquered Spirits; Queen of the Rumba and Real Women Have Curves. She is the co-screenwriter of the movie version of her play Real Women Have Curves, The movie garnered much acclaim, including at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival where the film won the "Audience Award" and a "Special Jury Award for Acting." Josefina has written several other screenplays including Loteria for Juarez about the mysterious murders of women in the Mexico/US border town of Ciudad Juarez; Josefina has won several awards including a Gabriel Garcia Marquez award from L.A. Mayor in 2003. She was also recognized by the WGA as the cover story for the December 2002/January 2003 issue of the prestigious Writers' Guild magazine "Written By," entitled "Real Writers Have Courage." Josefina and cowriter George LaVoo won the "Humanitas Award for Screenwriting" for Real Women Have Curves. She was awarded a Screenwriting Fellowship by the California Arts Council for 2001 and in 1988 she was recognized by California Senator Barbara Boxer as a "woman who has made history in the entertainment industry." 
or her writings and speeches on women's rights , has signed the petition to Stop Child Executions in Iran. Mrs' Kar met Nazanin Afshin-Jam last week in New Jersey. 
he challenged and criticized the hardliners as well as the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. She was the first to resign when the anti-reform measures of the Supreme Leader began to take shape. Her resignation was followed by few other pro-reform MP's. In 2001, Ms. Haghighatjoo was sentenced to 20 months in prison, for “inciting public opinion and insulting the judiciary”. Her sentence—which she terms illegitimate and undemocratic, and which she has not served yet—was later reduced to 10 months. In 2005 Haghighatjoo was a fellow at MIT’s Center for International Relations. She is currently a fellow at Harvard University's Women and Public Policy Program. 
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