Eight women and a man face stoning in Iran for adultery

[Canard]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/ju ... umanrights


Eight women and a man face stoning in Iran for adultery (Or, Everyone Must get Stoned)

Nine people in Iran - eight women and one man - have been sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery in verdicts lawyers blame on a resurgence of hardline Islamic fundamentalism.

The sentences have been imposed in courts across the country despite a supposed moratorium on the punishment, which Iran says is justified under sharia law.

Lawyers say most of the nine have been victims of violence and are mostly too ill-educated to understand the charges against them.

Many of the sentences were handed down after hearings held in private without the presence of witnesses and defence lawyers.

One woman, Kobra Najar, an ethnic Kurd, is said to have been condemned after being forced by her husband into prostitution. After she divorced him, he forced their daughter to sell her body.

Another defendant, Shamame Qorbani, claims she was raped but that the allegation was not investigated.

Details of the sentences were disclosed by Iranian lawyers yesterday in Tehran as they attempted to generate international support for a campaign to force Iran's government to abolish stoning.

"These women mostly come from the illiterate masses and did not have money or access to a lawyer. Many did not understand Farsi and, of course, all the interrogations were in Farsi," Shadi Sadr, a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, told the Guardian. "In all of the cases, there has been violence against them, or they have been forced into marriages, or their divorce applications have been refused. In some cases, they couldn't apply for a divorce due to family pressures."

Two of the cases took place in Tehran while two others are in the largely Arab-speaking city of Ahvaz. Two others are from the mainly Azeri-speaking north of the country.


They came to light after a group of Iranian lawyers embarked on a campaign to halt stoning, which has been condemned by international human rights groups.

The lawyers are calling on Iran's judiciary chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, to issue pardons.

However, Shahroudi's influence in the current political climate is believed to be limited. Last year, he ordered a stay of execution for a man condemned to be stoned for adultery but local officials carried out the sentence in violation of his orders.

Sadr said the verdicts were a consequence of an atmosphere of political repression and religious fundamentalism, under which MPs feel free introduce ever more draconian legislation. These include proposed laws allowing execution for witchcraft and bodily punishments such as blinding and amputation under a new penal code before parliament.

"It is connected to the general hardline politics," she said. "The more there is fundamentalism in general in our politics, the greater the worry that these verdicts will be carried out. If you have a hardline prosecutor in a remote rural area, he is going to be much more able to put his beliefs into practice in the current atmosphere."

[joeblow]

Blah, blah, blah, British propaganda newspaper printing a bunch of bullshit by some paid British agents trying to stir up the British debt cows to hate a country that they will never even visit. It is time that they get the message that the British Empire has ended and, unless the New World Order (as stated many times by Gordzilla Clown) is created, the rest of the world will not follow their every wish any longer.

[Anonymous]

Many of the sentences were handed down after hearings held in private without the presence of witnesses and defence lawyers.

One woman, Kobra Najar, an ethnic Kurd, is said to have been condemned after being forced by her husband into prostitution. After she divorced him, he forced their daughter to sell her body.

So because the AP story is reported in the British press... it isn't true? ...  This shit isn't right and only helps people condemn Iran.

[joeblow]

Unlike everybody else around here, I've actually been to Iran. Though I was, for all intensive purposes, just a tourist, I heard and saw plenty acts of promiscuity. Those cases that do go to trial may, by Communistic Western Democracies' standards, seem outrageous for people living after the 1960's Marxist Revolution in America, but people living there do NOT want the blatant public acts of Degeneracy that we all enjoy here.

[Canard]

I'm not sure that's accurate Joseph check out this article;

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... html?r=RSS

Iran's brutal morality police are growing in power, warns Nobel Prize-winner





By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor
Saturday, 7 June 2008


Zahra Bani Yaghoub was sitting on a park bench chatting to her fiancé when Iranian religious police arrived and arrested the couple. They were carted off to jail and held in separate cells. The fiancé was released but the body of Ms Bani Yaghoub, a 27-year-old doctor, was delivered to her family two days later.

Under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's feared morality police have been acting with renewed vigour against what they consider to be unIslamic behaviour. Although the doctor's death last October is widely known among Iranians because they have internet access, the case received only a brief mention in the state-run media.

Shirin Ebadi, a Tehran-based lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her tireless defence of human rights, is now seeking justice in the case.

Yesterday, she warned that the morality police, who frequently stop women in the street to accuse them of wearing headscarves that are too skimpy, are now threatening to enter the offices of private companies in their Islamic zeal.

Ms Ebadi also said that human rights in Iran had regressed over the past eight years – from the persecution of homosexuals to the recent arrests of leaders of the Bahai religious sect, to bus drivers jailed for protesting over low pay.

Speaking in London, the Nobel laureate said: "They claimed [Ms Bani Yaghoub] committed suicide in prison, which is a lie. In prison they even take your watchbands and shoelaces from you. Her family believes she was tortured and died as a result. That's my reading, too.

"Whatever they do is illegal. The question is who is responsible for these illegal actions? These people are committing crimes and therefore should be held accountable by the courts. But the courts are not independent. They are not doing their job properly."

In Ms Bani Yahgoub's case, Ms Ebadi points out, not only the police but also the judges who jailed her were acting incorrectly. But the courts are protected by the government, she said, adding: "If that were not the case, these judges would have been arrested by now."

Another of her clients, the student Amir Yaghoub-Ali, 22, was jailed last week for campaigning for women's rights. The charges against him included spreading propaganda against the state. He was detained while promoting the One Million Signatures petition, which calls for an end to discrimination against Iran's women.

"We are told they were arrested because they were working against national security, but they say that about anyone," added Ms Ebadi. "I sometimes think the Iranian government is suffering from a phobia. They think everyone wishes to overthrow the government. When bus drivers protest against low wages, they are thrown in prison."

Ms Ebadi's strategy is to oblige Iranian officials to live up to their international obligations, through the law and the courts. Despite continued death threats, she keeps plugging away.

She came to London to publish an English version of a book on refugee rights in Iran. Many of Iran's one million Afghan refugees have not been given residency permits, so they cannot open bank accounts or send their children to school.

Ms Ebadi insists the issue is not the government's apparent paranoia about the spread of Western values. "The Iranian government has joined international conventions and says it recognises those human rights provisions as international values, not as Western values," she said. "So under no condition can they claim these are Western values."

[joeblow]

Bad example to give. The Nobel Prize is given out by Freemasons. She works in a field (law) that is completely controlled by Freemasons. During the Revolution she supported Mossadeq (Freemason). She supported the CIA-backed aborted Iranian Student (probably a bunch of Freemasons) "Color Revolution". But since I am an honest man, I will say she is definitely a Nationalist, a Freemasonic one who wants the population of Iran to stop being Muslims and go back to fire-worship (which unfortunately is still done on an annual basis).

Basically, to sum up my opinion of her: she can burn in hell with all the other Revolutionary Heathen God-damned Freemasons and I hope she is eventually publicly executed.

* NOTE *
I did not causally throw around the swear word Freemason, if anyone wants to challenge me on any of these statements, feel free to do so.

[sullivan]

Bad example to give. The Nobel Prize is given out by Freemasons.

Actually, your chances of being nominated, let alone winning, are significantly reduced if you are not Jewish. Alfred Nobel was, after all, one of the 'selected ones'.

She works in a field (law) that is completely controlled by Freemasons.

Is it, or is it dominated by a particular pseudo-ethnic group?

[Lix Tetrax]

Eustace Mullins deserves a nobel prize just like the other Ezra Pound students. I guess he won't be getting one anytime soon. I wonder why.  :twisted:

[joeblow]

Bad example to give. The Nobel Prize is given out by Freemasons.

Actually, your chances of being nominated, let alone winning, are significantly reduced if you are not Jewish. Alfred Nobel was, after all, one of the 'selected ones'.

She works in a field (law) that is completely controlled by Freemasons.

Is it, or is it dominated by a particular pseudo-ethnic group?

I just read a Swedish biography about him and even have seen his picture, he was NOT Jewish. The Talmudists make the actual current statistics hard to find, but I found this piece of history which still does NOT make my statements invalid, since a higher percentage of lawyers would still be Freemasons:

http://books.google.com/books?id=6VZg8d ... t#PPA56,M1

Before 1933, the Jewish population in Germany was about one percent...In Berlin 55 percent of lawyers...were Jewish.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, if Nobel prize winners were worthy of using to back up a point, Al Gore wouldn't have won an award.  It is indeed controlled by jews.  How did Albert Feinstein get a Nobel prize for stealing other people's work?  Where the hell is Tesla's?

[Anonymous]

Tesla was the greatest mind of the 20th century.  Lot's of tech he invented got taken from him and is suppressed.  We would be living a great world if great men would have used his vision of the future to build a greater humanity.  BASTARDS!

[Canard]

Eustace Mullins deserves a nobel prize just like the other Ezra Pound students. I guess he won't be getting one anytime soon. I wonder why.  :twisted:

Yeah but every student of Ezra is more renowned then him, and he was their editor and beefed up all their works big time.  He just wouldn't curb his tongue and shouted it as loud as he could. then the circus began.