Spate of Executions and Amputations in Iran

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Source: nytimes.

January 11, 2008
Spate of Executions and Amputations in Iran
By NAZILA FATHI

TEHRAN — Using strict enforcement of Islamic law, the judicial authorities in a restive region of southern Iran amputated the right hands and left feet of five convicted robbers this week, part of what the government said was an effort to deter other troublemakers.

An Iranian rights group led by Shirin Ebadi, the lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize winner, protested the double amputations, which it called an expansion of cruel punishments in Iran. The group also protested a spate of public executions reported over the past two weeks.

“Unfortunately, the violation of human rights in Iran has not only been expanded in some fields, it has also found new dimensions,” Ms. Ebadi’s group, which calls itself Defenders of Human Rights, said in a statement.

Iranian newspapers on Thursday reported the hanging of seven men convicted of murder and drug smuggling in different cities this week. In the first 10 days of January there have been 23 publicly disclosed executions.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/world/middleeast/11iran.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

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people who make mistakes pay for it for the rest of their lives. no forgiveness.

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1. The woman, Raheleh Zamani, was hanged. She has been in the news:

According to a count by Agence France-Presse, based on reports in local newspapers, Iran hanged 298 people in 2007, compared with 177 hangings in 2006.

The executions this year were carried out ahead of the mourning month of Muharram that began Thursday under the lunar calendar. Under Islamic law, executions are forbidden for the month.

Among those reported executed on Jan. 1 was a 27-year-old woman and mother of two who killed her husband when she was 23. The woman, Raheleh Zamani, was hanged at Tehran’s Evin prison despite a promise by the authorities to postpone her execution by a month. A group of feminists were trying to get the consent of the victim’s family to save her life. She had married at the age of 15 and had been abused by her husband, Ms. Ebadi said.

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2. Our leaders and top presidential candidates must be so jealous

we haven't been able to execute hardly anyone at all this year.

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3. Good one!

All these stories about the evil, evil Iran.

Meanwhile, a woman in DC killed her four daughters months ago and nobody even noticed they were missing until sheriff's deputies showed up to evict her.

and here on DU every thread on universal health care is visited with hand-wringing posts about how "we can't afford it."

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4. Well it is much cheaper to just let people die.

And we have a Big Ass Warn Terra, A Glowball Warn Terra in fact, so we cannot afford to be giving away sex change operations to welfare cadillac queens. I have to go wring out my hands now. I'd pull my hair too, but it is mostly gone.

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5. I couldn't have said it better myself. im series.

[KansDem]

6. Amputations appear to be common in mid-east, including the country that *really* attacked us on 9/11

Saudi Arabia

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7. Saudi Arabia is far worse.

Saudi methods are beheading and stoning.
Saudi's also kill for lesser offenses.
Not to mention the public torture of their victims, for crimes such as a woman driving a car.

No article in the Times about the brutal punishments in Saudi Arabia.
The double standard and blatant agenda is so transparent it's embarrassing.

The Times works hard to gin up war.

[ohio2007]

8. TGIF

heads roll after friday prayers