Urgent Action 33/07 on Four Women Sentenced to Death in Iraq

GEORGE W BUSH, THE LIBERATION OF IRAQ.

Amnesty International

Samar Sa'ad 'Abdullah (f), aged about 25, Wassan Talib (f), aged 31, Zeynab Fadhil (f), aged 25, Liqa' Qamar (f), aged 25. The four women named above have been sentenced to death, and at least one of them is in imminent danger of execution. The president has the power to pardon them, or commute their sentences. All four women are held at Baghdad's al-Kadhimiya Prison. Two have young children with them: Zeynab Fadhil her three- year-old daughter, Liqa' Qamar her one-year-old daughter, who was born in prison (...) Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible: - urging the authorities not to carry out the death sentences imposed on Samar Sa'ad 'Abdullah, Wassan Talib, Zeynab Fadhil and Liqa' Qamar; - expressing concern that Samar Sa'ad 'Abdullah is facing imminent execution; - asking for details of the exact charges against each of the women; - calling on the authorities to commute all the death sentences that have been passed since August 2004, and to move from there to a complete abolition of the death penalty...

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Iraqi puppet “court” in Baghdad sentences three women to death for carrying out Resistance attacks. They were not permitted legal counsel.

Islammemo, Translated by Muhammad Abu Nasr

In a dispatch posted at 3:33pm Makkah time Saturday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam (Islammemo) reported that the puppet "Iraqi Supreme Criminal Court" has ordered the execution of three Iraqi women on charges of involvement in Resistance attacks in Baghdad. The puppet "court" called such Resistance activity "terrorism."(...) Attourney Walid al-Hayyali said that the court ordered the execution of the women under Paragraph 156, without allowing them to appoint any lawyer to represent them and argue their case. Since they have no lawyers, they are unable to appeal or ask for a dismissal of the charges against them. Al-Hayyali called on the Islamic world to act to denounce the "verdict" and halt the execution of the three women, noting that Liqa’ Muhammad had given birth in prison a few months ago and is still nursing her child, and Wasin Talib has a 3-year old daughter. The three women are currently being held in the al-Kazimiyah Prison located in the Shi'i district of al-Kazimiyah in Baghdad, a stronghold of the pro-Iranian Jaysh al-Mahdi militia....

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