“Berkeley Lecture Series” Presents:
A Talk by Deljou Abadi
The Qisas laws of Iran in action
Shahla Jahed’s false murder criminal proceedings, a case study
with
Screening of documentary film, Red Card, directed by Mahnaz Afzali, (Persian with English subtitles)
Deljou Abadi is the founder and director of the US based Iranian Refugees’ Alliance, Inc. In addition to researching and authoring reports and articles on the conditions of Iranian refugees, she has done legal refugee casework for numerous individuals before national tribunals and represented many before the United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees and the European Court of Human Rights. Since 1995, she has also maintained a Documentation Center (IRADC) on human rights conditions in Iran.
The present talk summarizes a 47-page case study on Ms. Jahed’s false capital murder conviction prepared in January 2008 for submission to relevant United Nation groups. The study will be published in 2009/10 as part of the efforts of IRADC’s Project on Extra-Legal Executions in Iran to collect and analyze data on capital crimes, judicial proceedings of capital crimes, and judicial executions in Iran that violate binding international legal standards on capital punishment.
Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008
Time: 4:00 P.M.
Place: 110 Barrows Hall
University of California, Berkeley
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Lecture in Persian
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The Red Card (Carte Qermez)
Director: Mahnaz Afzali
Photography: Mohammadreza Derakhshan, Khadijeh Jahed, Mahnaz Afzali
Editor: Bahman Kiarostami
Music: Selected from Iman Vaziri
Sound Designer and Mix: Keivan Jahanshahi
Assistant Director: Aida Pourshirazi, Sara Irani, Adham Lavasani
Producer: Hassan Pourshirazi
Video, Color, 74 min, 2006-2007