Skip to comments.
Iran Hangs Well-Loved Human Rights Activist, Poet
The Clarion Project ^
| February 17, 2014
| none stated
Posted on 02/17/2014 12:46:59 PM PST by Texas Fossil
Iran has executed human rights activist Hashem Shaabani, a 32- year-old Arab-Iranian, for waging war on God.
Other charges included sowing corruption on earth, propaganda against the Islamic Republic and acting against national security, according to a 2012 sentence handed down by the Ahvaz Islamic Revolutionary Court.
A well-known and loved poet in Iran, Shabaani was originally arrested in 2011 and confessed the crime of terrorism on Iranian state-controlled Press TV after being subjected to months of torture and interrogation.
However, in a letter that was published by Ahwaz News Agency in 2013, Shaabani said he had never participated in any armed activity, whatever the motives.
He said, I started my journey wielding my pen against the tyranny that is trying to enslave and imprison minds and thoughts
Shabaani continued, I have tried to defend the legitimate right that every people in this world should have which is the right to live freely with full civil rights. With all these miseries and tragedies, I have never used a weapon to fight these atrocious crimes except the pen.
According to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, Shabaani was executed along with his friend Hadi Rashedi, both members of the Dialogue Institute that was outlawed by Iranian regime.
(Excerpt) Read more at clarionproject.org ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: activist; dialogueinstitute; hadirashedi; hang; hashemshaabani; iran; shabaani; waronterror
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-37 next last
"Iran put to death over 529 people in 2013, 300 alone since Rouhani assumed office in August."
May God Help US. Such evil that stalks the world.
To: Texas Fossil
Matching counts with drones on Americans, on American soil is our president’s goal. Andrew Cuomo too for all you New Yorkers.
2
posted on
02/17/2014 12:50:51 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Texas Fossil
Iran likes to be involved in all phases of martyr creation.
3
posted on
02/17/2014 12:50:54 PM PST
by
toast
To: toast
they don’t believe the people they execute are going to be martyrs. they believe they are racking up points with allah for doing his will getting rid of people who espouse things against islam. non-muslim or in their view, corrupted muslim.
4
posted on
02/17/2014 12:53:45 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Texas Fossil
Only western nations invest in the long term warehousing of it's criminals of all sorts. Islam does not make sense of such a concept? Enslave, rape, torture, strip them of all assets and property, and when the time is right, kill those dissenters and criminals.
Why waste the state's resources on such a dumb practice?
5
posted on
02/17/2014 12:55:17 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: FReepers
Click The Pic To Donate
Support FR, Donate Monthly If You Can
6
posted on
02/17/2014 12:55:46 PM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
To: Secret Agent Man
And our ever-so-popular and MSNBC-loved Commander-in-Chief will certainly make them feel the heat for these injustices.......
Oh woe is we!
7
posted on
02/17/2014 12:57:49 PM PST
by
Monterrosa-24
( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
To: blackdog
Frankly, I don’t like activists either.
8
posted on
02/17/2014 12:57:52 PM PST
by
DonaldC
(A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
To: Secret Agent Man
they believe they are racking up points with allah for doing his will getting rid of people who espouse things against islamThey believe no such thing. They execute for deterrence, to keep down the opposition. Political, pure and simple.
9
posted on
02/17/2014 12:58:24 PM PST
by
webheart
(Watch out for the bots! They will disagree with you!)
To: Monterrosa-24
Nah, he is to worried about Uganda’s new law regarding homosexuals.
10
posted on
02/17/2014 1:05:11 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: DonaldC
Let's see...............Spend hundreds of millions of the state's currency to babysit your caged foes?
Or........Spend hundreds of millions of the state's currency to make nuclear bombs and engage in a military buildup to promote the state's agenda?
Western values forced on Islam hardliners is like Shakespeare aloud to swine.
11
posted on
02/17/2014 1:06:46 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Texas Fossil
“Iran put to death over 529 people in 2013, 300 alone since Rouhani assumed office in August.”
Good thing he is a moderate we can work with.
12
posted on
02/17/2014 1:08:02 PM PST
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
To: webheart
umm, yeah, they do. they may also believe what you believe they believe, but they believe they are doing allah’s will and furthering islam. removing the impure be it muslims or non-muslims is a part of jihad and part of the muslim faith.
13
posted on
02/17/2014 1:08:23 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Texas Fossil
It shouldn’t be forgotten that when Iranian citizens began protesting their phony elections and were being shot at as a result, Obama took the side of the mullahs.
14
posted on
02/17/2014 1:08:50 PM PST
by
Telepathic Intruder
(The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
To: Texas Fossil
Iran Hangs Well-Loved Human Rights Activist, Poet that's their Modus operandi.
nothing to see here.
move along.
15
posted on
02/17/2014 1:08:58 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Texas Fossil
Andrew Cuomo may consider a religion shift in his family. Hard-line Islam is sounding pretty good to the little boy Cuomo.
Watch out New York!
16
posted on
02/17/2014 1:09:01 PM PST
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Texas Fossil
17
posted on
02/17/2014 1:11:01 PM PST
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Texas Fossil
Obama has already forgiven them.
18
posted on
02/17/2014 1:11:05 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Violets are blue,
Roses are red,
Hanged by the neck
until he’d dead, dead, dead.
Thanks Texas Fossil.
19
posted on
02/17/2014 1:19:09 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
To: Texas Fossil
Apparently he wasn’t all that well-loved.
20
posted on
02/17/2014 1:21:53 PM PST
by
Nachoman
(Wisdom is learned, cynicism is earned.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21-37 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson