Iranian governments execution of 16 year old outrages public opinion

[democratic]

http://www.iran-press-service.com/ips/articles-2004/august/ateqeh_executed_27804.shtml

By Safa Haeri
Posted Friday, August 27, 2004

PARIS, 27 Aug. (IPS) Iranians and international community expressed outrage at reported execution of the 16-year-old Ateqeh Rajabi on vague charges of un-Islamic behaviour.

According to Press reports from the Islamic Republic, Ms. Rajabi was publicly hanged on a street in the city centre of Neka in the northern province of Mazandaran, on 15 August, for "acts incompatible with chastity".

The lower court judge was so incensed by her protestations that he personally put the noose around her neck.


Faced with domestic and international outcry of dismay, the authorities said the young girl was “mentally incompetent”.

However, informed sources revealed that Ms. Ateqeh was sentenced to death by the judge, a cleric, because during the "trial", she expressed outrage at the misogyny and injustice in the Islamic Republic and its Islam-based judicial system.

“The lower court judge was so incensed by her protestations that he personally put the noose around her neck after his decision had been upheld by the Supreme Court”, the sources reported.

The execution of Ateqeh Rajabi is the tenth execution of a child offender in Iran recorded by Amnesty International since 1990. Amnesty International has urged Iran’s judicial authorities to halt further executions of child offenders - people who were under 18 years old at the time of the offence. This is to bring Iran’s law and practice in line with requirements of international human rights law.

Amnesty International that expressed “outrage” at the execution of the young girl believes that the execution of Ateqeh Rajabi underlines the urgent necessity that Iran pass legislation removing provision for the execution of child offenders, thereby preventing further execution of child offenders, and bringing Iran into line with its obligations under international law.

In an article published Friday 27 August 2004 in the Germany-based internet newspaper Iran Emrooz, Dr. Hoseyn Baqer Zadeh, an Iranian human rights activist observed that the laws of the Islamic Republic are the “most inhuman, segregationist, insulting and discriminatory” against women.

The Islamic Republic are the “most inhuman, segregationist, insulting and discriminatory” against women.

[noahmijo]

1. I can't wait till the people rise up against the emums and the rest

of the scum-fucks that run that country I really cannot wait.

I for one would support assisting the people should they choose to ban together and attempt to overthrow the government in Iran.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Here, here!

This angers and disgusts me so much that I can't even bring myself to comment on it again.

[noahmijo]

3. It's sad if only we hadn't invaded Iraq and kept the focus to

fighting islamic extremists you know the ones who want to kill us and anyone else who is not exactly like them? We would be on the ready and primed for when the Iranian people would look to overthrow the government and we could promise them assistance and truthfully call it humanitarian assistance.

I don't wanna sound like a chickenhawk, but if the Iranian people called to us for help in fighting back the govt loyalists I'd support it, and I bet other nations would be happy to help as well to establish a democracy there.

Okay back to reality now.....:(

[D-Notice]

4. There was a democracy once...

But the US & UK overthrew it & installed the Shah as dictator...

All in the name of oil

BTW: doesn't the US execute children?

[Djinn]

5. and the intellectually disabled

although to be fair they don't execute anyone for "moral" crimes