My name is Abolfazl Rahmanpour, and I am Kobra Rahmanpour’s father. I
am writing to ask you to voice your objection to the unjust death
sentence of my daughter.

My little girl was forced to marry a
man who was 43 years her senior. Kobra was a star student and had
dreams of going to college. However, extreme poverty forced her to
forego all of her dreams and goals.

Before getting married,
Kobra had a difficult life. After marriage, not only was she unable to
find peace or happiness, but she was subjected to a life that was even
more brutal. The extent of problems and abuse that Kobra endured in a
household where she was first a maid and then a bride, forced a kind
girl such as Kobra to become involved in a physical altercation, during
which she had no choice but to defend herself – an act that led to the
death of her abuser.

Since then, Kobra has spent the best
years of her teenage and young life in jail on death row. She has
suffered greatly and is entirely broken. She should not face any more
torture and cruelty. She should not feel the executioner’s rope around
her neck, and I should not be a witness to her pale, lifeless body,
forever asking myself how could I have let this happen or what should I
have done differently so that my young child would not have had to face
such a brutal life and such a horrifying death?

Kobra,
herself, has stated that she wishes to live; she is terrified of
execution, of public hanging, and of the cranes that will elevate her
to her death. She wants to go to college and get an education. Kobra is
an extremely kind girl – a fact to which even her fellow prisoners
attest. She should be released from prison to start a new and normal
life.

Our only hope for saving Kobra’s life remains in YOUR
objections to her unjust sentence. The only way to save Kobra’s life is
the collective voices of all persons who find her punishment unfair and
inhumane, those who believe in the basic rights of all humans, those
who oppose the death penalty, and various international human rights
organizations.

I ask you to put yourself in my position and
that of Kobra’s mother for even one moment to understand the horror and
the pain with which we deal on a daily basis. I am willing to be
executed in Kobra’s place if that would ensure her freedom. All my
life, I have worked hard, from morning to night, and have lived a
respectable and honest life; I can not help but wonder how or why this
fate has befallen upon me and my family. If Kobra is executed, her
mother and I will have nothing left in our lives. PLEASE HELP US.


Please lend your support to my family, to my handicapped child who
constantly asks for her sister, Kobra, and to the rest of Kobra’s
relatives and loved ones who are horrified by the prospect of the
execution our kind and beautiful child, our beloved Kobra. We ask that
you sign the petition to save Kobra’s life, even though we realize that
we do not have much time left. Yet, during these last hours, we plead
with you to lend us a helping hand: By signing this petition, please
voice YOUR objection to Kobra’s unjust punishment and support our
efforts to save her life.

Sincerely,

Abolfazl Rahmanpour

Petition here :
 http://www.petitiononline.com/kobrar/

Demonstration in Teheran to save Kobra :
 http://stophonourkillings.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=627