By Luisa De Campo from Amnesty International Australia
Li Yan is on death row in China for murdering her husband after suffering repeated, horrific abuse at his hands. She could be put to death any day now.
Though the Supreme People’s Court has approved her execution, Li Yan is still alive. This gives us hope that our call on the Chinese authorities not to execute Li Yan have been effective so far.
If you haven’t already, please join Amnesty supporters and demand Li Yan be spared the death penalty. Each day, as you sign, we continue to fax your petitions to the Chinese authorities.
The death penalty in China
While exact statistics of the death penalty in China are unavailable (as they are considered a state secret), it is estimated that thousands of executions take place on an annual basis – which is more than the rest of the world combined.
Many people facing the death penalty in China do not receive fair trials. The accused are not presumed innocent, confessions are often extracted through torture or ill-treatment and the accused are detained in poor conditions.
This is the situation Li Yan is facing. We need to let the Chinese authorities know that the world is watching Li Yan. By making your voice heard we can make a real difference to help save the life of Li Yan and others like her.
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She s not guilty but the victim. Please save her!
Noone can decide upon human beings’s life, NOONE, it’s a really awful things that still people on this world get killed by their own brothers. Stop war, stop hate. Only Peace.
Do not kill Li Yan, please!
Death Penalty is obsolete! Spare her life and the thousands who are unknown. Are we not allowed to protect ourselves from danger? Or is the abusers life more valuable than the victims life?
Save Li Yan!!!
I hope that Chinese authorities stop or at least delay this execution. She should have never killed the man she killed but I believe that the man abusing her is a mitigating factor. The appropriate punishment for this would be 5-10 years imprisonment with a possibility of parole after 1/3 of the sentence. Unfortunately Amnesty International has never been able to persuade governments from stopping executions so I highly doubt that she wont be executed, but for what its worth, please China, dont execute this woman.
I am asking for the same consideration for Li Yans life that you would wish if it were your own daughter or sister who had suffered repeated abuse until she chose to defend herself and her own honor. I suspect that she paid dearly for the crime before it was committed. She was abused past the point of endurance. Please exercise the wisdom and compassion you would want for yourself and for those you love.
Please.save her live,,,,!!!!!!!!!
Por el derecho a la vida, sólo Dios tiene de quitarla.
Save her from execution.. Whole world watching China…Be aware !!
stop death penalty !!!!
Vous, la Chine un si grand et beau pays vous en êtes encore à des exécutions barbares ! Vous, la Chine le monde entier vous observe et attend une réponse ! Vous la Chine, vous vous devez de sauvez Li Yan !
Death penalty is obsolete. China is a great country and should reconsider and spare Li Yan.
Self-defense. What could she do alone, facing her abuser,?
please save her
A human life is at stake here. Restore the dignity and right to life of this woman.
Even if a person commits a ‘crime’, his/her background, past records, circumstances under which she has done this – all these factors should be considered.
To the rulers in China.Please consider the the requests that has been sent to you.
You are a great Nation and Country.The Whole world respects your economic achievements and success.
With all the good your nation has taught us,do not consider the finality of carrying out the practice of the Death sentence on Li Yan life.I am a South African and even from this end of the world we watching.Please do not disappoint us.
She should be free. No one who is have hell at home think and do as a normal person. It’s like war without shelter, without hope if you don’t have a money to run away. Nation should take care of his harmed peoples!!!!
Let’s stop death penalty.
Please set this lovely woman free. She is a human being.
No a la Pena de Muerte…
respectez le droit à la vie!
Please the Chinese government, i beg in the name of the lord to save the woman’s life because whatever that conspired between she and her late husband is not intentional as for her to secured her precious life by defensed the husband died. So i urge the Chinese government to help stop the her execution and consider other methods of punishment.
PLEASE SAVE LI YAN ! SAVE LI YAN !
TRUST IN GOD ! RESPECT LIFE !
Why The Chinese Govt. insisting On Executing A Human Being Specially A Female ???
En France elle serait libérée car la maltraitance des femmes est condamnée il faut la protéger et surtout lui rendre sa vie !!!!