Posted on 11/30/2020 4:14:20 AM PST by Irannewswire
A worker was lashed 74 times without prior notice or a confirmed judicial sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison. The worker identified as Davoud Rafie, was laid off from the Pars Khodro automobile manufacturing company in 2012 for taking part in labor protests.
He was later detained in 2016 along with two other workers. After the Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare filed a complaint against him, he was once again detained in 2018 and was later released on bail.
When Davoud Rafie went to the court in Evin Prison to pursue his case, he was detained by agents and lashed him 74 times.
The flogging sentence was carried out even though Rafie’s charge of “insulting the Minister of Labor” had yet to be confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Rafie had participated in several protests outside the Ministry of Labor holding a sign which read “down with the Minister of Labor”, who was Ali Rabiei at that time.
Rabiei had withdrew his complaint in a formal letter to the Tehran Judiciary in April 2019.
Earlier this week, a man in Naqadeh, northwestern Iran was flogged, for “insulting” a judge. Mehdi Khairi was flogged 35 times in the Sentence Implementation Unit of the Mohammadyar Public Court. He was tried in absentia by the Court in July. An informed source said Khairi got into an argument with a judge presiding over a lawsuit he had filed.
Iran’s use of degrading punishments and torture The Iranian regime is one of the few states that still uses degrading punishments, even though all international civil and political rights conventions have prohibited the use of inhumane punishments such as execution and flogging.
The regime regularly hands out flogging sentences to protesters, dissidents, and to those charged with adultery and theft, among other things. Flogging is a cruel and degrading punishment and is tantamount to torture.
According to Amnesty International’s Philip Luther, “The use of cruel and inhuman punishments such as flogging, amputation, and blinding are an appalling assault on human dignity and violate the absolute prohibition on torture and other degrading treatment or punishment under international law.”
“As a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Iran is legally obliged to forbid torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment. It’s simply unacceptable that the Iranian authorities continue to allow such punishments and to justify them in the name of protecting religious morals,” he said in July 2018 in a statement condemning the lashing of a young man for drinking alcohol.
More than 100 “offenses” are punishable by flogging under Iranian law. The offenses include theft, assault, vandalism, defamation, and fraud. They also cover acts that should not be criminalized, such as adultery, intimate relationships between unmarried men and women, “breach of public morals” and consensual same-sex sexual relations.
Iran is the way it is largely because Jimmy Carter found the Shah’s approach to human rights to be distasteful. So now these people are in charge and have been a thorn in the world’s side for 40 years.
The two greatest threats to radical Islam were the Shah of Iran and Saddam Hussain. Carter toppled the first one. Bush II toppled the second one.
Carter and Bush II were very helpful to the radicals. So much so that they should be made honorary imams.
Biden’s friends.
An article that relies on Amnesty International sources and language
is all propaganda.
If the punishment for resisting arrest was 30 lashes for the first offense, resisting would be curtailed. If America allowed lashing, there would not be the plague of Black Lives Matter
Whipping people on a first offense is what you are advocating?
I don’t want to live in an America like that.
Nice to see union types being put in their place, considering all the damage they do.
“No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first—verdict afterwards.”
And it goes without mentioning that California attitudinal trash is now in the real process of destroying what once was America.
That attitude forced Black Lives Matter upon us
Police with poor training, psychological issues and a penchant for domination is what caused the BLM movement.
BS
As a gullible person you drank the kool ade and are suffering from liberal induced dementia.
There is no tight to resist arrest. There is no right to flee arrest. there is no right to endanger the lives of arresting law enforcement officers. There is no right to purposely violate the civil rights of a law enforcement officer.
Being a drugged out habitual criminal does not give the right to resist arrest and endanger the officers.
The problem is criminals not law enforcement
No, Marxism and Cultural Marxism did.
No, I am a lawyer. And not at all liberal. But bullies with badges is what caused this.
Well there is that.
Whipping without notice. I’m sure the guy would have felt better about the whipping had he received notice.
The false portrayal of the Zimmerman/Martin encounter by Marxist grifters is what caused the BLM movement.
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