Samar Saed Abdullah a 25 year old woman suffering in the al-Kadhimiya Women’s Prison in Baghdad and is ‘living’ here for the past two years, would go to the gallows by next Wednesday, why? Well, for a crime which she wasn’t even a part of!
Her ’shauhar’ slaughtered three of his kinsmen and left the scene. As a consequence of which, the authorities hawked upon the vulnerable wife and imprisoned the innocent person.
The Iraqi authorities severed battered her till the extent she confessed the crime, which actually was committed by her ‘detestable’ husband.
While talking with CNN, with her wet eyes, she shared her grief and said that she is not able to sleep especially on Wednesdays because that is the day appointed for executions, hence, she is not able to relax the whole day. She was sentenced to death by hanging for being an accessory to the murder of three members of her uncle’s family.
She explained repeatedly, that she hasn’t committed any crime and that she is not being taken seriously by the judicial authorities. She even goes on to say that she has a desire to live and so, is ready to face life imprisonment, twenty years in prison, for the ‘crime’, which she had (not) committed and hence, she must not be executed.
However, judge refused to hear anything in her defense. A person in authority has asserted that Samar is out of legal option.
Her parents too had sold their each and every possession just to save their innocent girl. An organization working for the emancipation of native women has offered help to the victim. They are fighting for her life.
She is innocent, terrified of being executed. She doesn’t know that her appeal for the sentence has already been failed; her parents do not have the courage to tell her.
However, her mother too is trying her utmost to save her life, she has framed an application, addressing it to the President of Iraq for her liberation but is still in dilemma whether next Wednesday would be the last day of her daughter’s life or not.
