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islamic regime of Iran set to execute 18-year-old on false charge of sodomy

Kawah | 08.08.2010 22:34 | Iraq | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Stop killing , stop execution
Stop killing , stop execution

Stop killing people
Stop killing people

stop killing people for their sexual activity
stop killing people for their sexual activity


An 18-year-old Iranian is facing imminent execution on charges of homosexuality, even though he has no legal representation.
Ebrahim Hamidi, who is not gay, was sentenced to death for lavat, or sodomy, on the basis of "judge's knowledge", a legal loophole that allows for subjective judicial rulings where there is no conclusive evidence.
Hamidi had been represented by huma
(...)human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, who has since been forced to flee Iran after bringing to international attention the case of another of his (...)

Kawah
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here we go again

09.08.2010 00:12

Why are you an Islamophobe? Why do you want war? Actually you're just trying to stoke a war with Iran actually. It's a well known fact that these so-called human rights activists are working for the CIA.

Don't believe their lies1!!!

an


re: here we go again

09.08.2010 05:45

Why are you a homophobe? Why do you want people to be murdered for their sexuality?

More right wing conspiracy theory bullshit masquerading as anti-US sentiment. The US government may be bastards, and Iran may be against the US, but the Iranian regime are still sexist, homophobic arseholes.

Repeat after me: "My enemy's enemy is not my friend!"

anon


Yes, get your own houses in order

09.08.2010 09:22

Any abuses in Iran are of course unacceptable, as they are in any country. But these stories - from the mainstream, corporate owned news agencies - are there to stoke the embers of war. How about looking at your own country ? Here in the UK people are shut up in Psychiatric institutions for political reasons. People lose their life's in a corrupt NHS ( see  http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GMcYT-w-gFwC&printsec=frontcover ) while a government builds new Nuclear power stations helped by their atomic friends. Wakey, wakey now.

Barney Holmes
- Homepage: http://djbarney.org


Right on Barney

09.08.2010 10:08

I mean, what's being hanged for being gay compared with building Nuclear power stations? We should be ashamed for even making the comparison.

I agree


no to so-called "human rights"

09.08.2010 12:23

Human rights are a shibboleth anyway. Nobody wants these so-called "rights" because they are actually the right of the US to bomb foreign countries. After all if human rights were real then people wouldn't be suffering in the death camp that is Gaza. And all these human rights activists were working for the CIA.

lindsey


Bloody right Better life better world

09.08.2010 16:38

This obviously calls for a serious bit a serious on the spot fine, sorry but the worlds policeman, united masons, will have to Nuke the entire region. Better life better world when the human race has been freed from slavery. Better life better world coming soon for the rest of the occupants of the planet, homo sapiens v soon to become extinct INNIT !!

Nukem


@nukem

09.08.2010 18:42

I used to thing nuclear carpet bombing the region was the best option too, but then had the same doubts about the nuclear fallout and how it would affect us.

A better way would be to poison the water table with a biodegradable poison. Without any population we can use the resources and there will be less strain on the planet. And, its better to do it now whilst we can rather than waiting for the middle east to get nuclear weapons which would probably result in a fullscale war at some point. Wipe them out now whilst we have the chance, at least the rest of us will be able to live in peace.

qualified on the subject


qualified, over eduacted ...

09.08.2010 18:55

absolutely old boy, and while we are about it nuke the bloody chinks and Ivan, and the fucking brazialians
my wife plays in a samba band and I'm sick of it. That way you'll be free to live your UK soap opera lives.
You might even win the lottery .. four fuck snakes .. and what ever else one is libretas to shove it ..

nukem


Fake photos used to demonize Muslims

10.08.2010 07:03

no more wars!


re: Fake photos used to demonize Muslims

10.08.2010 10:22

It's not a "fake photo", it's an illustration of what happens taken from a work of fiction. These things aren't easy to get photos of, and would it be fair to the family of the murdered person to have their death image plastered everywhere anyway?

The fact you have to point this out shows you don't have a leg to stand on and can just point out irrelevancies.

People are getting murdered by the state for non-crimes such as being gay or adultery. Fact. This isn't demonising Muslims, it's demonising homophobic sexist scumbags. Most Muslims I know wouldn't want someone stoned to death or even censured in any way for these reasons.

I think it is *you* who is being Islamophobic by suggesting all Muslims support this kind of thing. Come to think of it, maybe you are just an EDL troll trying to make Muslims look unreasonable by implying they are all sexist homophobes...

anon


Flashback: BBC Caught In Mass Public Deception With Iran Propaganda

10.08.2010 12:42

Los Angeles Times,16 June 2009
Los Angeles Times,16 June 2009

BBC, 17 June 2009
BBC, 17 June 2009



from the archives:


BBC Caught In Mass Public Deception With Iran Propaganda

by Paul Joseph Watson, 18 June 2009


The BBC has again been caught engaging in mass public deception by using photographs of pro-Ahmadinejad rallies in Iran and claiming they represent anti-government protests in favor of Hossein Mousavi.

An image used by the L.A. Times on the front page of its website Tuesday showed Iranian President Ahmadinejad waving to a crowd of supporters at a public event.

In a story covering the election protests yesterday, the BBC News website used a closer shot of the same scene, but with Ahmadinejad cut out of the frame. The caption under the photograph read, ‘Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi again defied a ban on protests’.

The BBC photograph is clearly a similar shot of the same pro-Ahmadinejad rally featured in the L.A. Times image, yet the caption erroneously claims it represents anti-Ahmadinejad protesters.

“Well I guess it sure was a popular fictional rally for Mousavi, because I later noticed while browsing the news sites a familiar picture on the BBC’s lead Iran story - it shows the same crowd, zoomed in to cut out Ahmadinejad,” a reader told the WhatReallyHappened website. “It is clearly the same protest as in the background are the same tree and odd circular building. However, the BBC managed to outdo the LA times in quality reporting - their actual comment under the photo from the huge PRO-Ahmadinejad rally reads ‘Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi again defied a ban on protests’ - a blatant lie and deliberately misleading description of what is actually occurring in Iran!”

As soon as the truth about the misrepresented images surfaced on the WhatReallyHappened website yesterday, the BBC changed the photo caption on their original article.

This is not the first time the BBC has been caught red-handed using crude image and video framing techniques for the purposes of political propaganda.

During the fall of Baghdad in April 2003, the BBC and other mainstream news outlets broadcast closely framed footage of the “mass uprising” during which Iraqis, aided by U.S. troops, toppled the Saddam Hussein statue in Fardus Square.

The closely framed footage was used to imply that hundreds or thousands of Iraqis were involved in a Berlin Wall-style “historic” liberation, yet when wide angle shots were later published on the Internet, footage that was never broadcast on live television, the reality of the “mass uprising” became clear. The crowd around the statue was sparse and consisted mostly of U.S. troops and journalists. The BBC later had to admit that only “dozens” of Iraqis had participated in toppling the statue. The entire scene was a manufactured farce yet the propaganda technique of blocking wide-angle shots from being broadcast convinced the world that the event represented a triumphant and historic mass popular uprising on behalf of the Iraqi people.

Whatever your views on the legitimacy of Ahmadinejad and the accuracy of the Iranian election results, the fact that the Anglo-American establishment and its media organs are exploiting and fanning the flames of chaos in Iran to provoke further instability is unquestionable.

Indeed, the U.S. State Department, which routinely demonizes the Internet as a tool of extremists and terrorists when it is used to criticize U.S. foreign policy, took the unprecedented step today of requesting that Twitter.com “delay planned maintenance work so that Iranian protesters can continue to use it to post images and reports of unrest,” according to a London Times report.



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