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17 year old rape victim to be hanged

malk | 09.02.2006 12:26 | Gender | Repression | World

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.

SICK SICK SICK!!!

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=5183

malk

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Hanged for murder - just like in the United States

09.02.2006 13:33

I wonder why our neo-con warmongers never post about capital punishment in the United States, or anywhere else that still uses this barbaric practice.

Surely nothing to do with whipping up propaganda for a war on Iran .... ?

Hairy Hatchett

Surely nothing to do with the nature of the crime

09.02.2006 15:16

moral non-equivalence.

sceptic

Dear sceptic

09.02.2006 20:21

Sorry mate but I'm really going to take you to task over this.

For a start, I tend to be extrememely sceptical about anyone who writes internet posts under the name of "sceptic". What they really mean is that they are sceptical about any views which do not conform to their own ultra-conservative views. They'd rather be sceptical about scepticism (against authority) than sceptical about authority itself. Whatever the people in power decide is just, you give them the benefit of the doubt.

"Moral non-equivalence" actually sums up your own position. A girl accidentally kills a man in self defence against him raping her. And for that she is hung. That's hardly moral equivalence is it. Killing someone by accident is not murder - it's manslaughter at worst. And killing someone by accident in self defence - in self defence when you (and someone else) is being raped. That deserves hanging does it?

Your logic is just totally wrong.

But even if this was moral equivalence, which is most emphatically is not, that would not make it right. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind does it not.

asd

dear asd

09.02.2006 22:28

You've made my point for me!

What I was trying to convey - and obviously failed - was to point out to hairy Harry that the use of capitol punishment in the US were not quite the same thing.

I quite agree - manslaughter at the worst. I think self defence is a pretty good argument too.

sceptic

Disgusting

10.02.2006 11:24

I am a criminal solicitor and can assure you that this would not even be manslaughter in the UK.

This sounds very much like self defence and she would have walked free from a Western Court, and doubtlessly been offered councelling and victim support.

But this is Iran; Gay men are stoned to death too. And the barmy left will find a way to defend this evil regime.

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So much for your caring Muslim friends!

11.02.2006 15:40

Islam a peaceful religion? Don't make me laugh! They are executing a girl after being raped!

Fuck Islam and Long live Freedom of speech!

No to Nuclear Iran!

Grim Reaper

Re: Criminal Lawyer

11.02.2006 18:20

Yeah, poor girl. It's not fair that THEY get to kill her. Why can't WE kill her. When do we get to kill the Iranians, that's what I want to know. Get the depleted uranium out. Let's attack NOW. We need to, you know, save them from themselves. Like that village in Vietnam. And when are those barmy lefties going to learn that anyone who opposes the indiscriminate carpet bombing of a country is exactly the same thing as supporting that country's government. Regimes like this are SO evil that sometimes you just have to ignore collateral damage. It's all for the best in the long run. At least when we bomb these people that'll be preferable (for them) than if they were killed by the bad guys. That's what I'd prefer anyway. I can't understand this squeamishness about imposing democracy and freedom of speech down the barrel of a gun. The problem with you lefties and peaceniks is that you have no balls.

The only way to stop this happening again is through BRUTE FORCE

Re Grim Reaper

11.02.2006 22:25

Give the Iranians a chance to show how magnanimous they can be.

And change that last line to: Iran has a duty to the International community to proceed with the construction of nuclear bombs unless there is dramatic disamament by the present nuclear powers.

And put it to the Ayatollahs that had that girl deliberately killed the rapist, she would deserve her own forty what shall we call them in Paradise. As it is, what she deserves is the love of a good man in this life. Where is there a Moslem balance between those two?

Try it. Send a nice letter to the Islamic Embassy of Iran, probably at 27, Prince's Gate, SW7 1PX.

Ilyan

Add this too

12.02.2006 11:35

Act NOW!
Iran: Release jailed strikers now!
Beginning on Friday, 27 January, security forces in Iran began arresting hundreds of striking bus workers in Teheran, including the leadership of the union. Workers are also being intimidated into signing pledges to give up strike and protest actions or risk being fired. The management of the company and the company's Islamic Council worked hand in hand with the security forces to help identify the workers and assist in the arrests. Union officials said the brutality of the security forces was indescribable. The wives and children of some union executive members were also arrested, but later released. They were taken out of bed and beaten up during raids on Friday night. The beatings continued in detention. On Saturday, as the workers arrived at the picket lines, they were rounded up. Many were verbally abused, threatened and beaten up to force them to drive the buses. Those who refused were taken away. The majority of the detainees are now in the high security Evin Prison, which is notorious for the torture and execution of thousands of political prisoners.
Taken from

http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=68

Correction to my previous

12.02.2006 23:18

My Sunni friend expects there to be seventy virgins in paradise for each martyr. So it seems I have it wrong again, unless the Shia count differently. Will the girl be awarded seventy virgin men? He thought not. Just one husband.

That sounds reasonable, especially if you think what a hell those henpecked martyrs might be suffering. Such is Paradise? The Christian Heaven sounds bad anough. See

http://www.indycymru.org.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=877 for inside information on that,