The Letter of an Iranian Mother her Second Son to Be Hanged

 Monday, October 26, 2015 1:31:31 PM


Greetings.
They are going to kill [hang] my second son. My Shahram yet to be 30 years old. He has been in prison for seven years. Most of his imprisonment, he has been held in solitary confinement. Now, his death sentence for religious activities in mosque, has been sent to the Execution of the Warrants Department. What can I do as a palsy mother?

Bahram, his brother, was also hanged. How much a mother can tolerate?

Every day and night I cry out to God and ask him to give me my death. As a Sunni muslim, we are not heard [in Iran]. Isn't this the quote by Imam Hussein of Shiites: "If you don�t believe in any religion [and don�t fear the Resurrection Day], at least be free in this world"?

Do something to save my son. I have lived enough, It's a couple of years that I have become palsy, even can't go to Tehran to visit my son [in prison]. Hang me instead of him and finish every thing. Death is better than this life that you have made for me. My son is yet to be 30, for what sin you kill our children this easy? I swear to the only God, one day, you must answer for these innocent bloods [that you have shed].

Translated by: Moustafa Rahmani