Posted on 08/26/2004 8:07:18 AM PDT by faludeh_shirazi
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On Sunday August 15, 2004, a 16 year old girl by the name of Atefe Rajabi, daughter of Ghassem Rajabi, was executed in the town of Neka, located in the province of Mazandaran, for “engaging in acts incompatible with chastity”. The execution was carried out by the order of Neka’s “judicial administrator” and was approved by both the Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic and the chief of the nation’s “judiciary branch.”
Although according to her birth certificate she was only 16 years old, the local court falsely claimed that she was 22.
Three months ago, during her appearance before the local court, fiercely angry the young girl hurled insults at the local judge, Haji Reza, who is also the chief judicial administrator of the city, and it is said as another expression of protest took off some of her clothes in the courtroom. This act by the young girl made the administrator so furious that he evaluated her file personally and in less than three months received a go-ahead from the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Court for her execution. The animosity and anger of Haji Reza was so strong that he personally put the rope around the girl’s delicate neck and personally gave the signal to the crane operator, by raising his hand, to begin pulling the rope.
It may be noted that although according to the Islamic Republic’s own penal laws the presence of an attorney for the defense [is supposed to be] mandatory, regardless of the defendant’s ability to afford one, nevertheless the girl remained without an attorney. Her unfortunate father, while tears poured from his eyes, went about the city beseeching the townspeople for money to hire an attorney who in the least would provide his daughter with a line of defense.
The young girl was buried the same day after her execution but during that same night her corpse was disinterred by unknown individuals and robbed. The theft remains unexplained and the Rajabi family has filed a complaint.
The 16 year old girl’s male companion, who had been arrested as well, received 100 lashes and, after the Islamic punishment was carried out, released.
Faludeh, where is the corroboration for the title?
Coming to a Canadian courtroom soon.
Fix the headline. There is nothing in this excerpt about the judge stealing the corpse.
What country is this about? Iran?
Where is the outrage from the Michael Moore's and members of NOW of this world?
nick
Why does the headline claim the judge stole her body when the article states that "persons unknown" were responsible?
This is a new one for me, even for sharia. The death penalty for adultery is well-known, but I was unaware that unmarried women could be executed for committing the act of fornication.
Sounds like she got executed more for lipping off than anything else.
That would send an authoritarian mullah into a rage! Didn't I see on FR a report that in the US, a prisoner mooned the judge? He got slammed big time, but obviously, it wasn't a capital offense.
Freaking filthy, vile, religion of peace.
Islam is as Islam does.
"Fix the headline. There is nothing in this excerpt about the judge stealing the corpse."
Who else would have done it? He was the only one with a motive. Think about it.
Yes.
Haji Reza is a pig-eating criminal himself and should be put to death for murder.
"Assumption is the mother of all f*** ups."- Everett McGill, "Under Siege 2"
I know these mullahs are vile fanatics and wouldn't put much past them, but nowhere is it stated that the cleric is even suspected of swiping the corpse. Even the swiping is in doubt, as the corpse "was disinterred, then robbed". That leads me to believe she was dug up for valuables and left there.
Is corpse defilement an Iranian salt-in-the-wound vengeance thing, some sort of Islam-approved action or a bizarre Middle Eastern cultural problem? All I know is that everyone's supposed to be buried before the end of the day they died.
No corpse. No murder.
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