Iraqi Women to be Executed
An Iraqi Tribunal has convicted and intends to
put three young Iraqi women, Wassan Talib, age 31; Zeynab Fadhil, age 25; and
Liqa Omar Muhammad, age 26; to death in the very near future, according to The
National Lawyers Guild International Committee, a network of human rights
attorneys, law students, and legal workers.
The Guild is demanding that the Iraqi
government immediately repudiate its intention to execute these women. The Guild
joins with many human rights and jurists organizations in making this
demand.
The Guild says the women were
denied legal counsel, the law under which they were convicted is illegal during
the occupation, and the women should be treated as prisoners of war, not
criminals. Two of the women have small children.
Posted: Thu - March 1, 2007 at 07:31 AM