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Stoning in Iran

2010-07-21T15:36:00.001-04:00

This video is very graphic but in order to present you one of the brutal facts of Sharia law in Islamic republic of Iran, having this video is essential. Please watch following video at your own discretion:

Execution by stoning or lapidation, in Persian language called Sangsar.

Reference:
What is really execution by stoning?

Oath of judges in Iran

2010-07-17T07:23:00.002-04:00

Judiciary in Iran is chronically corrupted, so the judges. The necessity of being Judge is to be fair and impartial. These are missing qualities in judges in Iran. There are many reasons for that but one of them is in their oath. Let's for once read "oath of judge" in Iran:

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate

Oath letter

I, as a judge, in the presence of the Holy Qur'an and before Iranian nation, swear to omnipotent God to follow the Prophet of Islam and the sacred Imams, peace be upon them, and seeking help of the spirits of the martyrs of Islam, guard justice and righteous, and undertake upon my human dignity to be diligent in seeking the truth and justice, administer Islamic justice to demand from oppressor and restore it to its owner and with sustained effort in Judicial position fulfill my obligation to Islamic republic with strengthening the foundations of the Islamic republic and supporting The Leader.

Name and surname

Signature

As it is crystal clear in above oath, the obligation of the judge in Islamic Iran would be "strengthening the foundations of the Islamic Republic and supporting The Leader". This judge is dependent to Islamic establishment, he is influenced by establishment and he is affiliation is Islam and The Leader, not independent view.

From my point of view, a judge has only one obligation and that is justice.

Oath of judges in Iran in Persian language

Stop Stoning!

2010-07-14T15:38:00.003-04:00

Avvaz team put together a camping to stop stoning. I couldn't say it better:

Yesterday an Iranian woman, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, was saved by global protests from being stoned to death.

But she may still be hanged -- and, meanwhile, execution by stoning continues. Right now fifteen more people are on death row awaiting stoning in which victims are buried up to their necks in the ground and then large rocks are thrown at their heads.

The partial reprieve of Sakineh, triggered by the call from her children for international pressure to save her life, has shown that if enough of us come together and voice our horror, we may be able to save her life, and stop stoning once and for all. Sign the urgent petition now and send it onto everyone you know -- let's end this cruel slaughter NOW!

Sakineh was convicted of adultery, like all the other 12 women and one of the men awaiting stoning. But her children and lawyer say she is innocent and that she did not get a fair trial -- they state her confession was forced from her and, speaking only Azerbaijani, she did not understand what was being asked of her in court.

Despite Iran's signing of a UN convention that requires the death penalty only be used for the "most serious crimes" and despite the Iranian Parliament passing a law banning stoning last year, stoning for adultery continues.

Sakineh's lawyer says the Iranian government "is afraid of Iranian public reaction and international attention" to the stoning cases. And after Turkey and Britain's Foreign Ministers spoke out against Sakineh's sentence, it was suspended.

Sakineh's brave children are leading the international campaign to save their mother and stop stoning. Massive international condemnation now could finally stop this sickening punishment. Let's join together today across the world to end this brutality. Sign the petition to save Sakineh and end stoning here.

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is saved from stoning for now but she may still be hanged. There are other fifteen more people awaiting death by stoning. Let's stop this horrifying form of punishment once for all.

Execution for intimidation of civil society

2010-07-12T03:40:00.003-04:00

Arash Rahmanipour was a youth when he was arrested with the most of his family member including his pregnant sister on April 14, 2009. He was interrogated several times in front of his sister. By threatening his pregnant sister with torture, authorities coerced him to false confessions. His sister was acquitted after two months in prison and released, but pressures she had endured during her detention caused her miscarriage.

Mr. Rahmanipour appeared in the court and at first he announced that he won't speak without his lawyer in a show trial and behind camera. His lawyer was right behind of door, authorities didn't permit her to attend in the court session. Intelligence officers put pressure on his father, and threatened him to prison if his son refuses to cooperate. The dad goes to the son and ask him to cooperate and falsely confess, based on the deal that they had with intelligence officers.

Judge Salavati sentenced Mr. Arash Rahmanipour to death penalty for waging war against God (Moharebeh), being member of armed groups and trying to topple the Islamic establishment.

His lawyer, Mrs. Setoodeh appealed to Supreme Court but little she know, authorities executed Mr. Arash Rahmanipour and Mr. Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani on Thursday January 28, 2010. Their families and lawyers heard the news from TV until then they have not been informed about the outcome of appeal court, let alone execution time.

His lawyer, Mrs. Setoodeh only meet her client for only once and for 15 minutes since he was arrested and until his sentence was carried out.

The state-own news agency, ISNA, reported that they have been executed because of their participation in following the post-election protests. But the fact of the matter is, Mr. Rahmanipour was arrested two months before presidential election and he was in prison.

They basically punished Mr. Arash Rahmanipour and Mr. Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani to death before even they actually commit a crime. These executions are only for intimidation of civil society.

References:
ISNA
BBC
StopChildExecutions

I copied their execution news from ISNA state-own news agency. They might delete or alter it at anytime:

Horrific execution scenes in Iran

2010-06-23T02:17:00.001-04:00

I want you to watch following photos and think for a minute. Do you see anything wrong on these photos?

You do not need to be a philosopher to understand that there is something morally wrong here. These photos are disturbing facts that a society goes through. I am thinking and asking myself, what are the consequence of these horrific scenes on the society? on the kid and youth watching these executions on the streets that they will be walking home everyday? on young and adult that read everyday news of executions on newspapers?

Execution figures in Islamic Iran, 2009 and past

2010-06-20T04:58:00.002-04:00

We do not have official statistics on executions in Islamic republic of Iran because Iran does not disclose such stats and keep it secret. There is a common consensus that true figure is very much higher so Iranian authorities wouldn't publish it. According to Amnesty International records Iran after China carried out the most executions in the world.

Islamic republic of Iran execution figures:

2009:   388+ people
2008:   346   people
2007:   317   people
2006:   177   people
2005:   94     people

These figures collated by various human rights organizations.

Death to Death Penalty!

2010-06-20T04:45:00.000-04:00

Iranian journalists and bloggers in prison

2010-05-14T04:57:00.003-04:00

The crackdowns on Iranian journalists and bloggers in aftermath of presidential election crisis in 2009 turned Islamic republic of Iran to the largest prison for journalists and bloggers.

Double Amputation in Iran

2010-04-26T03:12:00.000-04:00

On April 14, 2010 a piece of news appeared on some of Iranian papers, that unfortunately it didn't capture much of our world's attention. A man sentenced to double amputations and his accomplice to death penalty. Although it is not a new form of punishment in Islamic republic of Iran but one needs to take into consideration all facts surrounding this news to comprehend significance of it.

I wrote over and over in this blog about unfair due process in Iran's Islamic legal system. Also I wrote about excessive use of death penalty in Iran's Islamic judicial courts. I mentioned execution is taking some one's life. It is a barbaric form of punishment. It is a murder committed by government. It has medieval roots and proved to be ineffective in society and criminal's behaviour.

Amputation sentences has been issued since the Islamic revolution in Iran and Sharia laws has been exercised in all aspects of jurisprudence since then (1979). Amputations sentences may include amputation of limbs (hand and leg), fingers and eye-gouging as the most common form of amputations in Islamic republic of Iran. In double amputations, they cut off two limbs, like two hands or two feet but mostly one hand and one foot, to make it difficult (, if not impossible) for the condemned to do anything.

It has been reported that Islamic courts have extensively issued amputation sentences in post-revolutionary era, first ten years since 1979. I do not have stats and figures to back up this claim but I heard it over times from different sources. Taking into account the chaotic time in Iran in that era, would make sense to me but still I take it with a grain of salt and I will wait to see stats before I make up my mind on this specific claim.

Amputation sentences issued over the years in Islamic Iran and its use and news published on national and/or local papers. Some argued it was not much emphasis on the usage of this form of punishment on the media, some other hold opposite opinion. From my perspective, this cruel barbaric punishment has been practiced in Islamic Iran so regardless of its media coverage quality, we should make sure Iranian authorities will be held responsible for this vicious punishment.

In the new instance, head of Iran's Police Criminal Investigation department, Asghar Jafari called for performing Islamic punishments, specially the amputation of hand. He stated Iran's Police is prepared to carry out amputation punishments if judicial authorities have difficulty to implement them. This report announced on November 8, 2009 after the height of election protests and before future protests that occurred later in 2009 and early 2010.

Though Iranian police and militia bloody crackdown protesters but people showed they were going to put their lives on the line and come out on streets to protest against regime. Authorities came up with different scare tactics to put an end to the peaceful protests. Calling for amputations by Police enforcement was on the line with regime's strategy. There is one thing worth mentioning that according to Islamic Iran constitution, Iranian Police enforcement has nothing to do with judicial process and in fact the announcement was illegal.

Islamic republic of Iran executed some people (I do not have exact numbers yet) during election protests and subsequently until now. But this doesn't silence the discontent society. It is a silent volcano now but with a little shake will erupt and appear on the streets. Authorities knowing this fact too well, using inhuman and harsh punishments for crimes that could have lighter sentences or even for innocent, just to set an example out of them and repress society at large.

For the record in history, I am going to put two pieces of related news (in Persian language) that I refereed to, here on this post:

Farzad Kamangar: Iranian teacher in death row

2009-05-08T05:19:00.003-04:00

On 25 February 2008, the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Farzad Kamangar to death on charges of "endangering national security" and "enmity against God" (moharebe). The death penalty was confirmed by the Supreme Court on 11 July.

Farzad Kamangar, Iranian teacher, member of teacher union and human rights activist was arrested in July 2006 and under severe torture by the prison authorities on different occasions during his detention, they forced him to confess to charges against himself. For several months he was kept in solitary confinement and was not allowed any contact with his family or lawyer. The police also arrested Farzad's girlfriend, as well as members of his family.

Kamangar, who worked as a teacher in rural areas and was a human rights activist, is accused of being a terrorist through his alleged affiliation to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK. According to his lawyer who was not permitted to defend him, Khalil Bahramian “Nothing in Kamangar’s judicial files and records demonstrates any links to the charges brought against him”. He described the trial as “lasting no more than five minutes, with the judge issuing his sentence without any explanation and then promptly leaving the room.” According to Bahramian, the closed-door trial violated the Iranian legal requirements that such cases must be tried publicly and in the presence of a jury.

Farzad’s lawyer appealed the death sentence given the complete lack of evidence. According to him, the prosecution and death sentence are an indication of “discrimination against Kurds” within the judicial system. On 11 July 2008, the Supreme Court upheld Farzad Kamangar’s death sentence. He could be executed any day.

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Hat tips: Education International

Secret Execution of Delara Darabi

2009-05-07T04:39:00.004-04:00

I am used to hear and touched by atrocities and everyday violation of human rights in Iran, I know I shouldn’t be but in past 30 years hearing bad news after another bad news, almost never ending bad news, kinda make you expect to hear worse news but I was so shocked about Delara’s execution that I couldn’t write anything since Friday, May 01.

Friday is weekend in Iran and they don’t execute people on weekends but seems they arranged lots of exceptions for Delara’s case like they didn’t inform her lawyer and her family and executed her while Iranian head of judiciary suspended her execution for about 2 months.

Authorities intentionally executed her with this secrecy and manner to avoid protests for saving her life. Her trial was unfair and Iranian judiciary refused to review her case despite of new evidences that brought forward by her lawyer later on:

According to Iranian police evidences, crime committed by a right-hand person but she was left-hand person.
Even Iranian police didn’t provide fingerprints from the knife that she supposedly used to kill.
She actually took blame for the crime to protect her boyfriend, believing that as a juvenile she would not face hanging. Later on, she insisted that she didn’t kill anyone but authorities have ignored her during past 6 years.

That was very sad ending when she called home at 7 am and said “Oh, mom, they are going to hang me. I see the hangman's rope. Please save me mom. I want to speak to dad. I want to see you dad. for god sake, save me" Moments later a prison official snatched the handset away and yelled "we will easily execute your daughter and you can’t do anything about it”. Even they didn’t give her right to meet her family for the last time.

And I have been sad, upset, angry, angry, angry...

She is a second juvenile offender executed so far this year and at least 130 juvenile offenders sentenced to death are awaiting execution in Iran.

Stop Execution of Delara Darabi

2009-04-17T05:11:00.001-04:00

She doesn't have much time, only two days, please help to stop her execution before it's too late.

Delara Darabi, aged 20, is an Iranian girl at the risk of execution for a murder which took place when she was 17 years old. She denies committing the crime. Iran is a state party to international treaties that expressly prohibit the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by those under the age of 18. According to Delara the murder of her father's cousin was committed by the 19 year old boyfriend that she was in love with. Delara Darabi initially confessed to the murder, but soon retracted her confession. She claims that Amir Hossein asked her to admit responsibility for the murder to protect him from execution, believing that since she was under the age of 18, she could not be sentenced to death.

Delara Darabi was sentenced to death by a lower court in the northern city of Rasht. The sentence has been upheld by the Iran's Suprerior Court. At this stage the Head of the Judiciary has the power to order a stay of execution and a review of the case. Amir Hossein has reportedly received a prison sentence of 10 years for his involvement in the crime. Amnesty International has made several public statements about Delara. Delara is a talented artist and has used paintings to express her feelings.

Please sign this petition to save her life.

A similar petition was made for another Iranian minor, Nazanin Fatehi who also was facing execution. However After more than 350,000 signatures and worldwide attention she was found innocent and freed from prison in January 31, 2007.

Stop Child Executions has been asking people to send email or fax to head of judiciary and following contacts:

Head of Judiciary of Islamic Republic of Iran
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Phone: [00 98 21] 391 1109
Fax: [00 98 21] 3390 4986
Email: Shahroudi@Dadgostary-tehran.ir

Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations:
Mohammad Khazaee, Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Tel: (212) 687-2020 / Fax: (212) 867-7086
E-mail: iran@un.int

New additional contact information from Iran judiciary:
E-mail: info@dadiran.ir
[00 98 21 66491152 ]

and here is a sample letter:

Your Excellency Ayatollah Shahroudi,

Delara Darabi, the young artist who has been in Rasht prison for the last 6 years in Iran, is at risk of execution. I understand that her lawyer Abdolsamad Khoramshai has been informed that her execution is scheduled in the next few days. He is convinced that if she were to be given a new trial whereby they could re-enact the scene of thecrime, it would be easily proven that Delara is innocent of the alleged murder she was convicted of.

Khoramshahi has said many times that he has new evidence including the crime being committed by a right handed person whereas Delara is left-handed. Many attempts have been made by human rights groups and celebrities to try and get a pardon from the victim's family, however they have said that they want her execution to be carried out.

Please keep in mind that Iran is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), which prohibit the use of the death penalty against people convicted of crimes committed when they were under 18.

In the indicated circumstances, I'd request that she not be executed and be granted a new trial.

Thank you,
(Your name)

Hat tips: Stop child Executions

Iran torture prisoners

2009-04-12T01:01:00.001-04:00

If you ask Iranian judiciary they deny torturing prisoners, in fact not only they deny practicing torture in Iran also they condemn torture and speak against of other countries that practice torture. So what do they practice really?! Nothing really, they torture but they don’t call it torture. They use an Arabic-Islamic word called “Tazir” which refers to punishment instead of “torture”. So simply they don’t torture but they do punish, lash, beat, kick, cut, rape and etc. all happens under definition of “Tazir”.

Bahman Aghai Diba, Ph.D. International Law wrote:

When an interrogator wants to torture a person, especially the political ones, he goes to Mullah Judge (called Hakem-e Shariah) and asks him to give permission for let say inflicting 50 lashes to get confession from the suspects. If that works, it is the mission accomplished. If not, he can go back and get permission from the Mullah Judge for as many and as hard lashings that he likes.

While there is a great difference between a gentle stroke of the lash and the sever strike that gushes blood out of the body of the miserable subjects of torture, there is no criteria or system to administer or observe how the permission of the "Tazir" is implemented. The interrogators implement them as they wish. Sometimes the lashing, especially against women and young prisoners lead to sever injuries, damaging the internal organs and permanent loss of the physical functions.

Hat tips: Rotten Gods: Islamic Iran Tortures Activists, Tazir: the Islamic Torture in Iran

Torture in Iran; Ahmad Batebi’s story

2009-04-04T06:08:00.004-04:00

Preview of the interview

Ahmad Batebi who gained international fame for appearing on the cover of The Economist magazine July 17, 1999 holding a bloody T-shirt of a fellow student demonstrator – over that image Batebi arrested and sentenced to death. After international and domestic outcry, his sentence reduced to 15 years prison term.

Now that he is safe in the U.S. let’s hear this story from himself on 60 Minutes program on Sunday.

Update: Check out the full interview in Iran torture prisoners

Women’s Rights Activists Detained in Iran

2009-03-27T19:43:00.004-04:00

On March 26, 2009 - 12 members of One Million Signatures Campaign and Mothers for Peace arrested by security forces at a meeting place on a street corner that they were heading to visit the families of political prisoners during Persian New Year holiday.

All detainees were taken to a police station then to notorious Evin Prison. Islamic Regime has discouraged any meetings that sound politics or has anything to do with prisoners specially political prisoners, in fact they have raided meetings political or any meeting that encourages political prisoners and outsiders. Although visiting friends and families is a custom during Persian New Year holidays but paranoid authorities didn’t tolerate simple New Year visit and greetings.

One more important thing is, these activists have been arrested on their meeting place on a street corner, means they have been under surveillance (watched or their phone lines tapped) and that raises concerns.

Hat tips: Campaign For Equality (Persian language)

Iran ‘silver medal’ for execution

2009-03-26T23:02:00.002-04:00

In 2008 Iran at least (because regime doesn’t publish stats) put 346 people to death, just second after China. Unfortunately “stoning and hanging were among the cruel and inhumane methods used with at least 346 people put to death, including eight juvenile offenders.”

And don’t forget to take into consideration that corrupted judicial system in Iran handed down those death sentences after unfair trials. Iranian judiciary system doesn’t respect human rights, due process rights and law which supposed to be guarantor of laws and rights in the first place but in reality they have been taking confessions under torture from detainees and issue death sentences based on those confessions.

Juvenile executions are obvious form of violation of International law which Iran doesn’t respect the very basic International rights of child and it is just another example that there is no respect to international laws within Iranian judiciary.

Hat tips: Amnesty International: Cruel, discriminatory, unfair and degrading – the death penalty in 2008

Iranian Detainee tortured to death

2009-03-26T21:44:00.000-04:00

On March 25, Ali Badozadeh’s body found tortured on the outskirt of Mahabad city, northwestern Iran.

He was accused of “cooperating with the Kurdish political parties, having information about his nephew’s activity and others who were involved with Kurdish political parties” and taken to custody for interrogation by security forces on March 18, 2009.

His brother, Jahangir Badozadeh sentenced to death and currently is in the central prison of Orumieh.

Unfortunately Kurdish minority has been facing systematic discrimination and ill treatments by the state since 1979 Islamic revolution.

Hat tips: Rotten Gods: Detainee tortured to death

Iranian blogger died suspiciously in prison

2009-03-26T21:19:00.003-04:00

Iranian blogger, Omidreza Mirsayafi has died in prison under suspicious circumstances. He was just 28 years old blogger who criticize Islamic republic of Iran and its ayatollahs, Khomeini, Khamenie and Rafsanjani in a short essay.

Prison authorities said he committed suicide with high dose of medicine. I don’t buy it, how on the earth he had access to high does of medicine at the first place? It just doesn’t add up because in prison they don’t permit people to have shoelaces to prevent any possible motive for suicide and it is against prison policy to provide any medicine that prisoners could hurt themselves. Prisoners in Iran only would get regular medicine for headache and stuff like that. There is no doubt that his death is fabricated.

Read the full article in here

Political prisoner died suspiciously in Iran

2009-03-26T21:15:00.002-04:00

On March 06, 2009 Amir Hussein Heshmat Saran, Iranian political prisoner died in prison. He was prescribed with some unknown medical powder at the Gohardasht Karaj prison health center. After he used this medicine, he went into coma for 48 hours and despite taking him to hospital, sadly he didn’t survive.

From the moment that his family noticed about his critical conditions they wanted to visit him in hospital but intelligent service agents thwarted them. Although he was unconscious, agents handcuffed him to the bed until he died.

It seems this is the new approach of Islamic regime to get rid of political prisoners. Instead of prescribing regular medicine, they provide them some powder which could be mixture of anything like drugs or poisons and at the end they issue death certificate inside of prison by the very same doctors who prescribed the medicine.

Hat tips: Rotten Gods

Kurdish Juvenile tortured killed

2009-03-26T16:41:00.000-04:00

Body of sixteen year old Iranian Kurd, Behzad Golmohammadi that were tortured and shot by revolutionary guards found in sub-zero temperature in the middle of snowy mountains on the other side Iran-Turkey border.

He was arrested by Iranian border agents who in fact are revolutionary guards on February 20. His uncle said: “Iranian military forces which arrested my nephew asked for 10,000,000 Rials cash to release him. We had to accept their demands and should provide the money but when we wanted to go to their post-station to give them money, they shot at us with automatic weapons. They were broke his hands and legs and shot him.”

Photos are graphic so I didn’t put here, but there is one that you can see here.

Also Farhad Khalili, 22 years old who were accused of cooperation with guerillas, was arrested on February 19, were tortured and killed by authorities.

Hat tips: akhbare-rooz, Iranian Woman

Sufi Holy Site demolished by Iranian authorities in Isfahan

2009-03-26T15:35:00.000-04:00

On February 18, 2009 in the early hours of February 18, some 200 members of the security forces, police, and plainclothes agents raided a house of worship of the Sufis in Isfahan.

Some Sufis were at the site to protect the house from sudden and unannounced demolition by security agents which several Sufi sites demolished in the same way during recent months throughout Iran. Their cell phones cut off to prevent them from informing others and were taken to custody.

They said that the security forces cut off water and electricity to the area, and destroyed the walls around the poet's tomb with a bulldozer. They also destroyed the library where [religious] books were kept. They demolished the big hall where we had our Monday and Friday ceremonies and also our Sunday dawn meetings. They took away all the carpets and other property.

Authorities released detained Sufis after they completed the demolition.

Sufi sites after demolition

Sufi sites before demolition

Hat tips: RFE/RL, Majzob (Persian language)

Destruction of Baha’i graves

2009-03-05T08:35:00.004-05:00

This has done by some fanatics - government backed - on November 2008 in Qaemshahr. It is not the first time that Islamic regime is destroying Baha'is' grave in Iran.

Video from: Human Rights Activists in Iran

Iran destroys grave site of mass killings of political prisoners

2009-03-05T06:21:00.000-05:00

Iranian authorities carried out mass executions of political prisoners between August 1988 and February 1989, often referred to as “prison massacres”. It was the largest mass executions since those carried out in 1980 and 1981 after the Islamic revolution in 1979.

Iranian authorities buried bodies in mass and individual unmarked graves in Khavaran. Even their families were banned to visit this site for a long time till couple of years ago after long outcry from their loved ones and international organizations like Amnesty they could have visit this site.

Now after more than 20 years of massacres, Iranian authorities determined to destroy anything that has to do with barbaric killings of innocents and even they destroyed markings on some areas that made by families of executed and covered most part of the site with soil and planted trees.

There is no hope that Iranian authorities would investigate these violations and people who were committed “prison massacre” but still Iranians and especially who lost their loved ones demand to know the truth, and bring to justice people who were responsible for these inhuman human slaughters.

Links:
Iranian Minorities Human Right Organisation
Khavaran: silencing the dead
Rooz (Persian Language)

7 Bahais accused of spying

2009-02-20T14:22:00.001-05:00

Seven leaders of the Baha'i faith who have been held in prison for more than eight months in Iran without any access to their lawyer, finally officially accused of "espionage for Israel, insulting religious sanctities, and propaganda against the Islamic republic". They will face court hearings within a week.

Followers of the Baha’i faith, say the Baha’i founder is the prophet after Muslim's prophet, but Muslims believe that Muhammad was final prophet and there would not be any prophet after their prophet. So this belief regards Baha’is faith heresy and therefore they have been faced systematic persecution in Islamic Iran.

See how this systematic persecution how far goes that couple of days ago, Iran's Prosecutor General Dorri-Najafabadi said "there is irrefutable evidence that adherents of the Baha'i sect are in close contact with the enemies of the Iranian nation, Baha'i organizations are illegal and their connections to Israel and their enmity toward Islam and the Islamic system are absolutely certain and their threat against national security is a proven fact."

It just happened that Baha'i World Center is in Haifa, city of Israel and this goes back in history before founding of the Jewish state but Islamic Iran abuses this fact and provides false propaganda to Iranian people too easily charges Baha'is.

There is not any due fair legal process in Islamic Iran's Judiciary and specially in the religiously and politically motivated cases.

Related links:
Iran: 7 Bahais to Face Trial
Religious leaders face spying charges in Iran
Iran Accuses 7 Jailed Leaders of Bahai Faith of Espionage

A documentary about a juvenile who executed for crimes against chastity

2009-02-19T17:27:00.000-05:00

Though this is not a case but it very important that we all know what is going on in Iranian judiciary system and I guess this documentary would give you wide-range info that how injustice cause by Islamic judiciary which in fact should be responsible for justice, irony. I thought I should have put a these videos altogether here in a post.

On 15 August, 2004, Atefah Sahaaleh was hanged in a public square in the Iran. They accused her adultery and described her as 22 years old but she was just 16. She charged for crimes against chastity.

BBC developed a documentary that comes in five episodes. If you don’t have time, watching the last episode can give you basic insight about this case and how inappropriately judiciary mishandled it. Nothing has changed in judiciary for good and they still continue to carry their unfair sentences and executions.

Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3
Episode 4
Episode 5

Link to BBC: Execution of a teenage girl