Petition updateSTOP EXECUTION OF IRANIAN PROTESTERSShe’s just a child. But she’s pleading like an adult.
Raheleh BehzadiStockholm, Sweden
Apr 15, 2025

Ronahi Hosseinnezhad, a young girl barely older than ten, sits beside her younger siblings in a video message—her voice trembling, her eyes heavy with fear. She isn’t asking for toys, or schoolbooks, or even peace. She’s asking the world to stop her father’s execution.

Her father, Hamid Hosseinnezhad Heydaranlou, a Kurdish political prisoner in Iran, has been sentenced to death. Despite clear evidence proving he was outside the country at the time of the alleged offense—despite passport stamps and phone records that show he was in Turkey—the Iranian judiciary has refused to review his case or grant his lawyers access to the file.

But Ronahi still hopes. She still believes the world will listen.

Her voice breaks as she pleads to Dr.Mia Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, to help her father. 
What remains is the innocence of a child, crying out to a system that often turns away.

My father is innocent. Please don’t let them execute him,” she says.

She should be playing, learning, dreaming. Instead, she's begging for her father's life—holding the weight of justice in hands too small for such a burden.

And yet, in a world full of noise, we must ask ourselves:
Will we hear her?

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