Donnerstag, 12. Januar 2006
Todesstrafen
A partially blind and deaf man was hanged in public in Tehran, a semi-official daily reported on Saturday.
Three men were hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, a state-run daily reported on Sunday.
The three prisoners, identified only by their first names Amir-Reza, Gholam-Ali, and Majid, were accused of murder, the hard-line daily Khorrasan wrote.
An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.
The state-run daily Etemaad reported on Saturday that 18-year-old Nazanin confessed to stabbing one of three men who had attacked the pair along with their boyfriends while they were spending some time in a park west of the Iranian capital in March 2005.
Nazanin, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the three men started to throw stones at them, the two girls’ boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless.
She described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand.
As the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said.
The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.
Last week, a court in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, sentenced Delara Darabi to death by hanging charged with murder when she was 17 years old. Darabi has denied the charges.
In August 2004, Iran’s Islamic penal system sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, to death after a sham trial, in which she was accused of committing “acts incompatible with chastity”.
The teenage victim had no access to a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to no avail. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka.
Aber ja, Tookie war ein unschuldiger Kinderbuchautor, dem all unsere Aufmerksamkeit zu widmen war. Liebe Medien: Fuck you!
Free Iran! Faster, you idiots!
Montag, 16. Januar 2006, 20:04
Wer etwas für die Kleine tun will, kann an die untenstehende E MAil Adresse einen Brief schicken:
tb-petitions@ohchr.org
Dear UN Human Rights Commissioner,
This is a petition against the death sentence imposed against Nazanin, a 17-year old girl, by a tyrannical Sharia Court of Iran. The whole episode can be read here http://www.faithfreedom.org/Announcement/601081013.htm . It is inhumane to impose death sentence against a woman who was trying to protect herself from three diabolic rapists. Such incidents can happen only in Islamic countries. This is the age of reasoning and not a Mohammedan era. The world cannot tolerate the abuse of human rights. There is a proverb which says ‘justice delayed is justice denied’. I hence request you to take immediate action by putting international pressure on the Mullahs of Iran and save the life of this innocent girl.
Thanking you,
Yours truly,