Posted on 12/14/2004 7:37:07 PM PST by motorola7
A 19-year-old Iranian girl with a mental age of eight who was forced into prostitution by her mother has been sentenced to be flogged and executed for 'morality-related' offences, Amnesty International said yesterday.
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Since you are a newbie, I will explain. The extreme leftist feminazi group, NOW (National Organization of Women), claim to be for "women's rights". However, they side with the 'Rats and the Taliban on the invasion of Afghanistan where women were literally property and bought and sold like slaves. They sided with the 'Rats and Saddam also on the war in Iraq where Uday and Qusay used to snatch women off the street to rape and kill if they liked.
They will probably side with the 'Rats and the mullahs in Iran on this, too.
The nags have their "minds" on REALLY important matters, such as playing golf at Augusta National or joining the University of Miami Touchdown Club...
This story needs to have some evidence to back it up. I can't confirm this through a quick search of regular news channels. The picture looks contrived and bogus.
Ahhh... the "holy" Koran. When I use the last page, I will go back to toilet paper.
I agree with you. Amnesty International isn't exactly a credible source to me.
He has several port o lets there and in each one you has a choice between regular toilet paper or a copy of the koran to wipe yer arse with.
I used the toilet paper but the copy of the koran had at least half the pages torn out, which I found hilarious...had to hurt.
Sadly, in that culture, the sentence is one of the more merciful things she could face...
This is from "Amnesty International" web site.
No other source is given.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
Public Statement
AI Index: MDE 13/036/2004 (Public)
News Service No: 210
23 August 2004
IRAN: Amnesty International outraged at reported execution of a 16 year old girl
Amnesty International today expressed its outrage at the reported execution of a girl who is believed to be 16 years old, Ateqeh Rajabi, in Neka in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran, on 15 August, for "acts incompatible with chastity" (amal-e manafe-ye ‘ofat). Ateqeh Rajabi was reportedly publicly hanged on a street in the city centre of Neka.
Amnesty International is alarmed that this execution was carried out despite reports that Ateqeh Rajabi was not believed to be mentally competent, and that she reportedly did not have access to a lawyer at any stage.
The execution of Ateqeh Rajabi is the tenth execution of a child offender in Iran recorded by Amnesty International since 1990. Amnesty International has urged Iran’s judicial authorities to halt further executions of child offenders - people who were under 18 years old at the time of the offence. This is to bring Iran’s law and practice in line with requirements of international human rights law.
A bill to raise the minimum age for execution to 18 was reportedly under consideration by parliament in December 2003. However, the bill is not believed to have been ratified by the Guardian Council, Iran’s highest legislative body.
Amnesty International believes that the execution of Ateqeh Rajabi underlines the urgent necessity that Iran pass legislation removing provision for the execution of child offenders, thereby preventing further execution of child offenders, and bringing Iran into line with its obligations under international law.
Further, the organization is urging the authorities to clarify whether Ateqel Rajabi had legal representation and whether a legally approved doctor deemed her psychologically fit to stand trial.
Background
According to report on Peyk-e Iran, Ateqeh Rajabi was sentenced to death approximately three months ago, by a lower court in Neka in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran, for "acts incompatible with chastity".
During her trial, at which she was reportedly not represented by a lawyer, the judge allegedly severely criticised her dress, harshly reprimanding her. It is alleged that Ateqeh Rajabi was mentally ill both at the time of her crime and during her trial proceedings.
It is reported that although Ateqeh Rajabi’s national ID card stated that she was 16 years old, the Mazandaran Judiciary announced at her execution that her age was 22.
The case reportedly attracted the attention of the Head of the Judiciary for the Mazandaran province, who ensured that the case be heard promptly by the Supreme Court. In Iran, all death sentences have to be upheld by the Supreme Court before they can be implemented.
The death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court, and Ateqeh Rajabi was publicly hanged in the city centre of Neka on 15 August. According to Peyk-e Iran, the lower court judge that issued the original sentence was the person that put the noose around her head as she went to the gallows.
On the same night that she was buried, Ateqeh Rajabi’s corpse was reportedly removed from the grave by unknown individuals. The Rajabi family have lodged a complaint and have called for an investigation.
The co-defendant of Ateqeh Rajabi, an unnamed man, was reportedly sentenced to 100 lashes. He was released after this sentence was carried out.
As a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Iran is bound not to execute child offenders. Both treaties provide that capital punishment shall not be imposed for offences committed by persons under 18 year of age at the time of committing the offence.
A Kiwi, I see. Welcome to FR. My former roomie married a Kiwi from Wellington, I believe. She was a red headed handful, I tell you. As I understand it, you Kiwis are among the last of former English speaking British colonies to embrace political correctness and socialism. Good for you. As one of our founding fathers said, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
There is abundant evidence that horrible abuse of women is widespread in Iran today, regardless of the particulars of this story.
Neither, that's just fine with them, even if one of them is a young boy. That's OK, but some young gal forced or coerced into prostitution, or a woman who runs away from a husband who beats her, and it's the gallows for the woman.
I just had someone I used to consider to be a friend argue with me today that Islam is a peaceful religion and has no worse of transgressions than Christianity has had in the past. What does it take to get through to people??
I dunno... the Koran is cheaper than toilet paper. They give 'em away free at the local Saudi consulate. Those guys must think I'm a convert or something... always coming and getting free Holy Korans. little do they know . . . .
how long before the people rise up and grab these "judges" by their necks, shake them severely, and say to these judges "this ends now" ?
And who knows what she suffered during her life. The abuse of women is ingrained into society over there. The same mother who would whore her daughters might dote on her sons. Very sick culture.
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