Iran hangs Reyhaneh Jabbari despite campaign

[still_one]

Source: BBC

"Iran has executed a woman who killed a man she said was trying to sexually abuse her.

Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was hanged in a Tehran prison despite an international campaign urging a reprieve.

Jabbari was arrested in 2007 for the murder of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, a former employee of Iran's ministry of intelligence.

Human rights group Amnesty International said she was convicted after a deeply flawed investigation.

A campaign calling for a halt to the execution was launched on Facebook and Twitter last month and appeared to have brought a temporary stay in execution.

However, government news agency Tasnim said on Saturday that Jabbari had been executed after her relatives failed to gain consent from the victim's family for a reprieve."

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29769468

[Feral Child]

1. Middle East = Middle Ages. EOM

[cosmicone]

2. It is not the geography

it is something else .... saying what may get the post hidden by the Hamas caucus on DU.

[LeftishBrit]

4. What it is is misogyny combined with theocracy...

and could you please not use this tragedy to sneer at your real or imagined enemies on DU!.

[cosmicone]

10. You forgot the extreme brutality and

no one dare say where this combination of misogyny, rabid theocracy and extreme brutality is found.

[7962]

7. You speak the truth even to those who dont wish to see it.

ANd you'll be slammed for it of course.

[LeftishBrit]

3. Truly horrible.

[heaven05]

5. such a travesty

this is an example of religiously sanctioned misogyny and murder at it's worst. Civilized people? I don't think so.

[flamingdem]

6. rip Reyhaneh

n/t

[7962]

8. And we're supposed to believe that they can be trusted with treaties?

Much like N Korea, they will sign whatever gets them more time to do whatever they want, and then toss those agreements in the trash.
And this is NOT an isolated incident either.

[Coventina]

9. RIP Reyhaneh and my deepest condolences to her family.

Very sad to hear this news.

[McCamy Taylor]

11. This is stupid. Of course the "victim's" family wants her dead---to protect their own reputation

and that of their dead rapist son. Women are treated as disposable in Iran--a woman's life is less important than a dead man's "honor". The women of the country need to revolt and throw off their chains.

[MADem]

12. So much for "Things are so much better there now..."

The Guardian Council and the Supreme Leader make the Shah look like the Dali Lama. The Shah was no saint but he never would have countenanced this.

[Jake Stern]

13. The State Department condemned the execution.

That's rich considering how many people are executed in this country. Many after a "deeply flawed investigation" as Amnesty calls it. If our government would be as concerned about our own home-grown miscarriages of justice like Cameron Willingham as they are ones abroad, then I'll be interested in what they have to say re Iran.

All executions need to stop.

[still_one]

15. You do know that there hasn't been a federal execution for some time, and as for other forms of

capital crimes, it is a state issue. The only way that could change if Congress voted to make it a Federal issue, which won't happen any time soon.

How many people are executed in this country? Perhaps it should be rephrased, how many people are executed in Texas or Florida, etc. Not every state has capital punishment.

If you do not see the distinction regarding the execution of a woman for being sexually assaulted, then you are certainly not objective

[Jake Stern]

17. Nice way to split hairs

Doesn't matter what jurisdiction does the killing, my point still stands: there are still executions being carried out in the US.

It's political. A way to spank Iran. Our State Department didn't seem to have much to say when Singapore let that Filipina maid swing a few years ago. They sure aren't clucking up a storm when Saudi Arabia beheads women .

[jmowreader]

20. Wasn't Timothy McVeigh the last?

[still_one]

21. Couldn't think of it, but you are right. It sure isn't done frequently at the Federal level.

[former9thward]

27. There were two since McMcVeigh

Juan Garza and Louis Jones. There are 61 people on federal death row. There are not many federal executions because there are only a few crimes that qualify. They mainly involve deaths of federal officials or capital crimes occurring on federal property.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_United_States_federal_government

[still_one]

28. Thanks for educating me

[Comrade Grumpy]

14. The execution is deplorable. The rote Iran- and Islam-bashing is boring.

The United States, too, is a death penalty country.

But at least our resident Islamophobes get a chance to come out and play. One's missing, though.

[still_one]

16. When was the last time the Federal system executed someone. Different states absolutely, especially

states like Texas, but there are states which do NOT have capital punishment.

So tell me, when did the United States execute someone who defended herself from sexual assault get executed?

For that matter, when did the U.S. government execute someone for being gay? That does happen in Iran you realize?

However, I do take my hats off to you for condemning it

[Mz Pip]

18. Iran deserves to be condemned for this.

This is sick, twisted governance that should be condemned.

[cascadiance]

19. Yep, it is, but Iran isn't the sole entity that should be criticized...

When in Saudia Arabia you have people being beheaded for sorcery and drug smuggling, they are just as cruel to their people as well, which spurs on the ISIS extremist violence too, if we keep "tolerating" what Saudi Arabia is doing.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-executes-19-during-half-of-august-in-disturbing-surge-of-beheadings-9686063.html

I know this incident is more focused on women and Iran totally deserves to be taken to task for its treatment women as exemplified by this case, but even in places like nearby Turkey and other countries in the region, there have been "honor killings" that should also be looked at and criticized as well. In recent years gay people over there have been a particular target of this sort of criminal act as well...

http://hbv-awareness.com/turkey-grapples-with-spike-in-honor-killings/

Focusing just on Iran, leads to rationalizations to justify going to war with them, which in my book should be avoided in all of these cases, and hopefully other methods can be brought to bear to stop these offenses wherever they occur over there.

[Mz Pip]

22. I'm not a fan of Saudi Arabia's govt. either.

This incident happened in Iran, hence the focus on Iran.

This type of punishment is appalling regardless of who does it.

[cascadiance]

23. Fully agree... Just don't want to see McCain singing "Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" again...

I fear when the corporate media focuses attention too much on one country or set of persons, even if their target deserves criticism, it lets them manipulate us in to doing things that perhaps we'll regret later. Another example is how Turkey is bombing the PKK kurds in Syria while we are dropping supplies, etc. for Kurds to fight off ISIS. The world is complex and we need to make sure we look at the big picture, even when appropriately seeing bad things happen in certain places that seem obviously out of place. I don't want other countries haphazardly bombing all of us here in our country just because a few people feel they can freely bomb other countries with drones, or send out some of Cheney's hit squads in the past doing things that we'd abhor being done to us, even if we though that someone like Cheney would deserve punishment for some of the things he's pulled. There are decent people in Iran too, that we need to help empower to stop these sorts of things from happening both at the national and local levels.