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Stoning to death

EDITORIAL: The stoners of Iran 

Tortured view of justice from a brutal regime

The Islamic Republic of Iran has a habit of throwing rocks at its perceived enemies, but the Mullahs in Tehran are slowly learning that the civilized world will not countenance the practice. Iranian officials last week commuted the sentence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani , a 43-year-old woman who had been sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. But all is not well yet.

When news of Mrs. Ashtiani's sentence began reaching the outside world in recent weeks, it prompted an international outcry.

‘Death by stoning is always cruel and inhuman, and it is especially abhorrent in cases where judges rely on their own hunches instead of evidence to proclaim a defendant guilty,' said Nadya Khalife of Human Rights Watch last week.

Democratic Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, condemned Iran 's execution method as 'appalling' and 'barbaric-‘.

The Web is replete with videos of stonings in Iran that show women buried up to their necks and pelted with stones hefty enough to inflict injury but not large enough to kill. Victims often die in slow agony.

Human rights organizations now fear that authorities will simply take an alternate tack and hang Mrs. Ashtiani instead. Chillingly, Iranian television broadcast a blurry interview with the woman on Wednesday in which she purportedly confessed to adultery and a new charge of complicity in

the murder of her husband. But her lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, said the confession had been extracted through torture. Mr. Mostafaei himself was forced to flee Iran earlier this month and seek asylum in Norway after learning that his vociferous defense of Mrs. Ashtiani was about to result in his arrest.

New York-based Human Rights Watch expressed 'grave concerns' Friday that the televised confession signals that her execution is imminent-.

Amnesty International also denounced the broadcast: 'It appears that Iran's authorities have orchestrated this 'confession,' following the call for a judicial review,' said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, deputy director at Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa program.

The organization said it is aware of at least 10 other people - seven women and three men - under a death sentence by stoning. Last year, at least three people sentenced to death by stoning were in fact hung.

Stoning was integrated into Iran's legal system in 1983 with the adoption of the Islamic Penal Code. An official moratorium was placed on the practice in 2002 but judges have continued to issue the sentence. The Iranian parliament has been considering a revision of the code that would exclude stoning but it has yet to be ratified.

Iran is discovering that few outside the Middle East favor the Mullahs' attempt to drag humanity back to an earlier era in human history, before justice was tempered by forgiveness-.

Only the benighted would willingly return to a world devoid of compassion for human frailty embodied by the wise words, 'He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone’.

It is long past time for Iran to remove the barbaric practice of stoning from its legal code, once and for all. (The Washington Times – Aug. 16, 2010)

150 people stoned in Iran in last 30 years

The website of French daily Le Figaro wrote that a number of cultural and literary personalities and Nobel laureates protested Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s stoning sentence saying that in the last 30 years, 150 stoning sentences were carried out in Iran. The French daily also said that there are currently three men and eight women in Iran who have been sentenced to death by stoning. (Radio Farda website – Aug. 17, 2010) 

Execution

More than 70 prisoners, including minors, executed in Mashhad in matter of days

There are reports that in the past few days, more than 70 prisoners in Mashhad Prison were suddenly executed.

According to reports from Mashhad, some of these people were arrested on drug related charges and were not sentenced to death and some of them were even sentenced to pay a fine. But suddenly a judicial order was issued for their execution.

It is still not clear why this order was issued but there are speculations that this has been carried out upon orders of security and intelligence institutions.

Before this in a similar case in this city in the beginning of the reign of the 9^th government (Ahmadinejad government) when a top security agent was linked to drug trafficking gangs, more than 60 people who were related to this case were suddenly executed. A number of them were relatives of security forces.

According to reports, a number of the recently arrested prisoners were under 18 years old or arrested as minors. (Nedaye Sabze Azadi Website – Aug. 14, 2010)

Report on mass executions in Mashhad

http://www.iranpressnews.com/source/081341.htm

According to information from a prisoner of conscience in the Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad, 64 people were executed on August 11 or 12, 2010 (in one day) in this prison. Most of them were charged with trafficking narcotics and similar crimes. Thirty others will be executed in the next two days. (Iran Press News – Aug. 15, 2010)

۱۵۰ حکم سنگسار در ۳۰ سال گذشته

سايت روزنامه فرانسوي فيگارو بار ديگر در مورد اعتراض برخي از شخصيتهاي فرهنگي، ادبي و برندگان جايزه نوبل به حکم سنگسار و اعدام سکينه محمدي آشتياني نوشته و ميافزايد در در ۳۰ سال گذشته ۱۵۰ حکم سنگسار در ايران به اجرا درآمده است. فيگارو ميافزايد سه مرد وهشت زن در حال حاضر در ايران محکوم به سنگسار شد هاند. (سايت راديو فردا- 26/5/89)

دژخيمان رژيم زبان زندانى سياسى کرد را بريدند

http://www.iranpressnews.com/source/081662.htm

زبان متين ارجان، زندانى سياسى کرد، اهل شهر باتمان، واقع در کردستان ترکيه، در جريان بازجويى ها توسط بازجويان زندان اوين در تهران بريده شده است و نامبرده هم‌ اينک در معرض خطر مرگ قرار دارد. ارجان طى يک سال گدشته دو بار دچار سکته مغزى شده و بدنبال آن از ناحيه هر دو پا فلج شده است. زکى ارجان، برادر متين ضمن تاييد اين خبر گفت، تا به حال ۴ بار به ايران رفته ام و برادرم را ملاقات کرده ‌ام، متين به طور مداوم تحت شکنجه قرار مى گيرد و بيشتر اوقات در سلول انفرادى بسر مى برد. زبان متين را بريده ‌اند، تحت مداوا قرار ندارد و با مرگ دست و پنجه نرم مى کند. از من مبلغ ۲۰ هزار يورو (حدود 27 ميليون تومان) براي آزادي برادرم پول گرفتند اما نه تنها او را آزاد نکردند بلکه خود من را هم تهديد کردند که اگر ايران را ترک نکنم، با مرگ روبرو خواهم شد. (ايران پرس نيوز – 29/5/89)

اعتصاب غذاي يک زنداني محکوم به اعدام درزندان اروميه 

http://www.peykeiran.com/Content.aspx?ID=20588

يک زنداني کرد محکوم به اعدام در زندان مرکزي اروميه  به نام محمد امين آگوشي  از روز يکشنبه  24 مردادماه ماه سال جاري ،دست به اعتصاب غذا زده است .

خانواده اين زنداني در گفتگويي با سرويس حقوق بشر آژانس خبري موکريان ضمن تاييد اين خبر اظهار داشتند : اعتصاب آگوشي  در اعتراض به محدوديتهاي اعمال شده در قبال وي در زندان و نگهداري در بند قاتلين مي باشد

ياد آور مي گردد که  محمد امين آگوشي  (معلم بازنشسته ) به همراه ايرج محمدي واحمد پولاد خاني به اتهام مشارکت در جاسوسي حدود يک سال پيش بازداشت واز سوي شعبه دوم دادگاه نظامي آذربايجان غربي به اعدام محکوم که راي صادره پس از اعتراض توسط متهمين از سوي شعبه 31 ديوان عالي کشور عينا ابرام گرديد. (آژانس خبري موکريان – 26/5/89)

محدوديت زمان ملاقات زندانيان در ماه رمضان 

زمان ملاقات زندانيان با خانواده هايشان در ماه مبارک رمضان کاهش يافت .اين يکي ديگر از محدوديتهايي است که باز هم براي ملاقات زندانيان سياسي در ماه هاي اخير ايجاد شده است.

به گزارش کلمه، مدتهاست زندانيان سياسي بدون دستور دادستان تهران و نامه کتبي او نمي توانند با خانواده هايشان به صورت حضوري ملاقات کنند . همچنين فقط يکي از اعضاي خانواده حق ملاقات حضوري با زنداني را دارد .در کنار همه اين محدوديتها کاهش زمان ملاقات در ماه رمضان نيزمانع ديگري را در راه ملاقات زندانيان سياسي به وجود آورده است .

در مواقع ديگر سال خانواده زندانيان سياسي مي توانند از ساعت ۹صبح تا ۳بعد از ظهر براي ملاقات ۲۰ دقيقه اي با عزيزان شان به زندان مراجعه کنند. اين در حالي است که در ماه رمضان اين مدت کاهش يافته است و ساعت دوازده و سي دقيقه سالن ملاقات اوين تعطيل مي شود. اين موضوع موجب مي شد که خانواده هاي زيادي اصلا به ملاقات نرسند و به دليل محدود شدن زمان کلي ملاقات از دقايق ملاقات هر زنداني هم کاسته مي شود .برخي از خانواده هاي زندانياني سياسي از شهرهاي اطراف تهران براي ملاقات با عزيزان شان به تهران مي آيند. (كلمه – 28/5/89)

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از آغاز سال تحصيلي جديد؛ پوشيدن چادر توسط دانش‌آموزان دختر كازرون اجباري است

http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8905240215

رئيس اداره آموزش و پرورش كازرون از اجراي مصوبه پوشيدن چادر به عنوان لباس رسمي در مدارس راهنمايي و دبيرستان دخترانه كازرون از ابتداي مهرماه سال جاري خبر داد...

وي افزود: مصوبه پوشيدن چادر را به عنوان لباس فرم و رسمي در مدارس راهنمايي و دبيرستان دخترانه اعلام كرده‌ايم كه از ابتداي مهر ماه سال جاري و سال تحصيلي جديد اجرا مي‌شود. (خبر گزاري فارس – 24/5/89)