Delara's father writes letter to Iran's chief of judiciary

Delara Darabi's father writes a desperate letter to Iran's head of judiciary, Ayatolla Shahroodi, about the status of his daughter. According to this letter, Delara faces horrid conditions in prison, including abuse, and mus take anxiety pills to deal with those conditions. Delara's lawyer and father have asked that Delara be transferred from her current prison in Rasht to one in Tehran. Here are some parts of the letter:

“For the past 3 years, Delara has lived with pain and abuse. For the past three years, she has been haunted by images of the noose around her neck; yet, she has sealed her lips and has refused to talk about the pain and abuse to me and her mother. I am certain that she is innocent and that her innocence will be proven. However, I request that she be transferred to Tehran until a final decision is issued in her case."

"On a daily basis, Delara takes 15 anxiety pills, and, as stated earlier, she is extremely upset and has become very thin."

"Delara’s bad emotional state has even taken her close to death and my daughter attempted suicide in jail but she was rescued. So please do not allow her to disappear little by little for a crime that she never committed. I want you to help her."

"When Delara should be attending college, striving for a better future, she is in jail instead and is being punished for someone else’s crime. I ask you to rescue her from these hellish conditions."

You can read the rest of the letter and the report in Farsi at www.SaveDelara.com/news.html