Death Sentence
Here comes my death,
thinks 25-year-old Arghavan,
in Evin Prison in Iran,
when she hears the sentence.
I used to wear a button, proudly.
Question Authority, it said.
I wanted my young son to see it,
to know he could question even Mama.
I wore a button saying
Question Authority.
For doing exactly that,
the penalty for Arghavan Fallahi is death.
For public disagreement,
for active peace work,
for “propaganda against the state”
she has been a political prisoner in Iran
since January of 2025.
It’s July 1, 2026 and now
she hears the sentence
issued by the “Execution Judge”.
I think of her in her cell,
hearing the death sentence
in the midst of solitary confinement,
in the midst of relentless interrogation
in the midst of torture
in the midst of deprivation of communications.
What must she feel?
Could relief be equal to her fear?
To have it be over?
So young, so bravely living her ideals,
so broken by the suffering.
One year and seven months
since she was taken by the state.
Arghavad we hear you, we see you,
we stand with you, we are sending you love
©Susa Silvermarie 2026
1. Sign/add your name to the statement
The NCRI Women’s Committee has an open statement calling for the death sentence to be halted — you can add your voice here: wncri.org – “Sign our Statement to Halt the Death Sentence of Arghavan Fallahi”
2. Email the UN Special Rapporteur’s office directly
The article names Mai Sato, UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, as one of the key people this case has been raised with. The general channel for submitting an urgent case to UN Special Procedures (which reaches her office and other relevant rapporteurs) is:
– Email: urgent-action@ohchr.org — put “Arghavan Fallahi — urgent appeal, imminent execution risk” in the subject line, and mention it concerns the Special Rapporteur on Iran, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and the Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls.
– Or submit online: https://spsubmission.ohchr.org/
3. Contact Amnesty International
Amnesty has been actively tracking Iran’s execution wave (they issued a statement just two days ago on the crackdown’s anniversary). You can report the case or ask them to open an Urgent Action bulletin via their website’s “Take Action” / contact form — this is the fastest way to get her onto their organized letter-writing network, which sends bulk pressure to Iranian authorities.
4. Contact your own government representatives
A short, personal email to your member of Congress (or foreign ministry, if outside the US) asking them to publicly call on Iran to halt the execution and to raise it in any diplomatic contact with Tehran carries real weight — these get logged and tallied even as form letters.
5. Amplify publicly
Share the original Iran HRM piece or the NCRI statement on social media tagging @UN_HRC, @UN_SPExperts, and Amnesty — public visibility is explicitly named in the article as one of the few tools that can slow this kind of case down.