INNOCENT

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good guess mr Colombo or

good guess mr Colombo or Janidaler. so what is the solution?

I suspect Milad

Usually the real killers stand back and let somebody else do the dirty work for them. They usually invest on mind manipulation rather than fighting skills (as they are more of a coward). I have had "friends" that pushed me into situations and it took me years to realize their vicious intent! Such people can be VERY cunning; very convincing that they are your only "true friend." I can't be sure of course, but based on what Azarin says here, it is very suspicious of Milad - how he seems to have arranged the pretext for the fight, the fight and eventually had to even actually push the guy onto the knife (held by Ali) as his subject (Ali) was not following his hypnotic "friendly" command.

Admiration

In dealing with a judicial case under the  murderous IRI, I admire  Sasha, Rosie, Azarin, and SCE Compaign who courageouoly defend Ali . 

Let's hope that this compaign helps to save his life. 

If there is a way please tell Ali

If there is a way please tell Ali and his family that we care, and I am thinking of him and praying for him, and have been for some time (since I found out), and have done the little that I could from here.

I wish Mazdak's mother and father would also be told that we are sorry for this very tragic loss.
God knows what they are going through.
I hope all these children on death row are saved from death.
I hope they get fair trials.

I understand that the

I understand that the defence against him may have been week, that he was a minor (in the states, some crimes and minors are tried as adults!)at the time, that Iran's justice system is a disgrace etc. You cannot mount a defence for him and expect me to believe it when the other side isn't here to prove the case of the deceased. The facts of the case are murky and I think reason should prevail, not emotions. Capital punishment is an acceptable idea in many western countries.
Please don't respond with angry words. I am only saying that this is not the proper venue to discuss a legal matter. Public support could maybe help him get him a new trial but this isn't the place to act as a lawyer and try to convince us that he is innocent so that we can support him.

For information on how you can help Ali

see recent blogs by SCE Campaign, Azarin, Sasha and Ali...see the thread entry "How you can help." It isn't pasting here with the links properly. Robin

Why do I believe in Ali's innocence?

Hi,

I think I have repeatedly told Ali's story (in detail) and I don't want to repeat myself, but since it seems many haven't read those other blogs yet, so I think it desn't hurt to repeat the story. But this is the link to the full story told by Ali in Farsi:

//ali-mahintorabi.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_archive.html

I can summarize the important points in English so all Iranian.com readers can read it. These points helped me to believe in his innocence, otherwise I might have remained very quiet.

1) Ali is an excellent student academically, but socially he doesn't have many friends. His ONLY friend is Milad. And it is Milad who had started the fight in the morning with Mazdak the victim .

2) The knife was not Ali's. It was Milad who insisted that Ali take the knife that Milad had brought to school(that explains why Ali's father was so mad at him for taking part in the defense of Milad)

3) Mazdak --as even described by his own mother -- was more of a bully. He (and a few of his friends) attacked Milad in the morning and after the school ended.

4) Ali wanted to escape and didn't care if Mazdak and his friends found them to be coward or "Tarsoo". But Milad refused to leave so Ali stayed to defend his only friend.

5) I think there is a high probability if Milad gave Ali a knife, he should have had also another knife for himself. Because during the last fight that caused Mazdak's injury, Ali was fighting with victim’s friends and Milad was fighting with the victim, right before he fell on Ali.

6) Ali and Mazdak were standing back to back when Milad pushed back Mazdak, who fell on Ali (Ali had his knife in his hand toward other kids to scare them). The injury was not in the back of the victim.

7) When Mazdak realized he is injured, everybody ran away except Ali who tried to find a way to take him to hospital. It took a long time before one of the teachers accepted to take him to the hospital. At the hospital, at first doctors thought he was injured at stomach (and not close to heart) but when the moment they realized the gravity of the cut, it was alreday too late and he had lost too much blood.

8) As soon as the teacher took Mazdak to the hospital, Ali presented himself to the school office, where he told that he might have accidentally injured Mazdak.

9) The forensic examination of Ali's knife showed that there was no DNA on his knife.

So now, what would you think, if you were in the jury? Would you declare him guilty, beyond any reasonable doubts?

I am no lawyer -- even if I have read lots of Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot books! -- but I think a good lawyer shoud be able to prove his innocence. Mazdak's death in all possible cases is tragic and unfair but it is not a premeditated death. No parent is supposed to go to the funeral of his/her child. I am a mother of two boys (13 and 11), so I can imagine the degree of anger and helplessness of Mazdak's parents, still this anger and helplessness should not justify the execution of an innocent.

The only thing that Ali's parents are asking from the Justice sytem is to accept Ali's appeal, so he can get the chance of having another trial and to prove his innocence, but this time with a good lawyer and a fair judge.

Ali has already spent 5 years of his life in prison, so I think he has already paid for his crime of accepting Milad’s knife and taking part in the fight.

By the way, Ali’s parents are not Basiji, but they aren’t rich either and they have no good connection in the Iranian Justice System. They made also the mistake of leaving him alone for 20 days. The scar of these horrifying 20 days of solitude (for a 16 years old kid) would somehow remain forever. If Ali is saved, he would never be able to forget the darkness of those days and if he dies his parents will never be able to forgive themselves for letting their son down.

You might now wonder what you would have done if you were Ali's father?

 Thanks,

Azarin