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    I second your opinion - it´s strange to execute homosexual, but I don´t expect much from a country like Iran. The execute for a "strange" collection of crimes.
    No murder can be so cruel that there are not still useful imbeciles who do gloss over the murderer and apologize.

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    It never seems like AI or the many other abolish groups and the hoardes of groupies do anything for prisoners in these countries.
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    That´s not difficult to explain .... AI or the typical anti is normally a person with a left-wing-ideology. So being anti-US is one of their believes. If they´re anti-Iran they would share US-views. So it´s better to ignore the problems in poor Iran (sanction of the western countries) and move on with their anti-us propaganda.
    No murder can be so cruel that there are not still useful imbeciles who do gloss over the murderer and apologize.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael View Post
    That´s not difficult to explain .... AI or the typical anti is normally a person with a left-wing-ideology. So being anti-US is one of their believes. If they´re anti-Iran they would share US-views. So it´s better to ignore the problems in poor Iran (sanction of the western countries) and move on with their anti-us propaganda.
    Not always true,Michael! It is possible for us 'antis' to be both anti-US and anti-Iran,for a start! I oppose Iran's human rights abuses (including its use and application of capital punishment,as well as press restrictions) and religious extremism in its government,and oppose the US not only for its third-rate justice system compared to Great Britain and Western/Northern Europe,but also for its greed and its wasteful military intervention in recent years and in the past (e.g.Vietnam,Afghanistan),amongst other things.

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    Iran sentences alcohol drinkers to death

    Iran is to execute two people caught drinking alcohol for a third time after judges upheld the Islamic republic's strict laws on liquor consumption, media on Monday quoted a top judicial official as saying.

    Hassan Shariati, the judiciary chief of the northeastern province of Khorasan-e Razavi, announced the sentence in an ISNA news agency report that was published by the Donya-e-Eqtesad daily.

    The two unidentified people were repeat offenders, having been twice before convicted of drinking and lashed 80 times each, Shariati said.

    He said the death penalty for their third conviction had been validated by Iran's Supreme Court.

    Under Iran's interpretation of Islamic sharia law, imposed after its 1979 revolution, a first and second conviction on the charge of drinking alcohol is punishable by a maximum sentence of 80 lashes.

    A third offence risks a death penalty but, if the convicted person repents, the sentence can be commuted to the whipping.

    Only members of Iran's Christian minorities are exempt from the alcohol laws.

    The last time execution was ordered for a repeat offender on the charge was in 2007, but it was overturned after the convict officially expressed contrition, the Shargh daily reported.

    Despite Iran's tough penalties, some 60 million to 80 million litres (16 million to 21 million gallons) of alcohol are smuggled into the country each year, of which police seize only around a quarter, according to officials.

    An officer at Iran's anti-smuggling bureau said in early 2011 that the value of liquor smuggled to Iran was around $730 million per annum. According to Iran's police chief, Esmaeel Ahmadi Moghadam, the country has about 200 000 alcoholics.

    Alcohol is also covertly manufactured in Iran, sometimes resulting in deaths due to the production methods used.

    Iranian police have also started taking measures against driving under the influence of alcohol, with offenders liable to a fine of two million rials (120 dollars), confiscation of their driving licence and criminal prosecution.

    http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/iran...1#.T-hAP_W1Wfk
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    Iran protests execution of its own in Saudi Arabia

    On June 12 the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), Iran’s official media outlet, reported that Foreign Ministry officials in Tehran had summoned a Saudi diplomat to protest the reported execution of several Iranians for drug possession and trafficking. An Iranian official denounced the executions as “anti-humanitarian” and in conflict with Saudi Arabia’s “human rights standards” and the “principles of Islam,” IRNA reported.

    He also said that the Saudis’ alleged refusal to allow the accused to contact consular officials was a violation of Riyadh’s international obligations.

    On June 26, Iran upped the ante. The semi-official Fars News Agency reported that a diplomatic delegation to Saudi Arabia would raise the issue.

    The Iranian official has a point. Saudi Arabia has an atrocious rights record when it comes to handling drug offenses. Contrary to international law, Saudi law mandates the death penalty for selling illicit drugs, and the method of execution is usually beheading.

    Saudi authorities have also gravely violated the due process rights of those accused of drug crimes, including allegations of torture. Though the Iranian government has not published official statistics, reports estimate that Saudi authorities have executed up to 18 Iranian nationals on drug charges in Dammam prison in the past few months.

    Yet one has to wonder what was running through the Iranian official’s mind when he lodged the protest with the Saudis. In 2011, Iran executed at least 600 people, second only to China. Rights groups believe some 400 or so of those executions were for drug-related crimes, including personal use. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said in early 2011 that he believed “more than 80 percent” of all executions in Iran are for drug-related offenses.

    This would mean that in 2011, Iran executed for drug offenses more than four times the total number of people Saudi Arabia executed that year: at least 82, according to Amnesty International.

    Scores, maybe hundreds, of those Iran executed for drug-related crimes in 2011 and previous years are Afghan nationals who were convicted without access to lawyers or consular officials. Exact numbers are not available, but in 2010 Iranian authorities acknowledged that at least 4,000 Afghans were in Iranian prisons, and that the vast majority were there on drug charges. In April of that year hundreds of angry Afghans demonstrated in front of the Iranian embassy in Kabul after reports surfaced that Iranian prison officials might have executed dozens of Afghans, often in secret.

    Also in 2010, rights groups confirmed that Iranian authorities had executed at least two other foreigners, Paul Chindo from Nigeria and Aquasi Aquabe from Ghana, at the Vakilabad prison in the northeastern city of Mashhad without informing the proper consular officials. There is credible information that Aquabe and Chindo are among hundreds of people secretly hanged on drug charges at Vakilabad since 2010.

    Iran’s Draconian anti-narcotics law imposes the death penalty for manufacturing, trafficking, possession, or trade of 5 kilograms of opium and other specified drugs, and 30 grams of heroin, morphine, or specified synthetic and non-medical psychotropic drugs. There is little transparency in the prosecution of drug crimes as they are tried behind closed doors in revolutionary courts.

    Moreover, Iran’s anti-narcotics law bypasses a longstanding procedural law requiring all death sentences to be appealable to Iran’s Supreme Court and only requires the head of the Supreme Court or the Prosecutor General’s Office to affirm the lower courts’ execution sentences. In October 2010, Iran’s prosecutor general announced that his office would review some drug-related cases in the interest of fast-tracking these cases though the justice system, raising serious concerns regarding the defendants’ right to appeal and to a fair trial.

    Since then rights groups have documented cases in which the authorities have simply denied the right to appeal to people on death row for drug-related offenses. Several have been executed. Foreign nationals, especially poor refugees and unlawful migrants from Afghanistan, are at particular risk of being deprived of their right to a fair trial and ultimately executed.

    This all happens despite the fact that international laws to which Iran and Saudi Arabia are signatories require access to their consular officials and legal representation for foreign nationals accused of crimes. UN bodies, including the secretary-general’s office, have repeatedly expressed concern about the high level of executions for drug-related offenses, and encouraged Iranian authorities to abolish the death penalty or at least revise the penal code to restrict the death penalty to only the “most serious crimes.”

    The least Iranian officials can do is to give foreign nationals charged with drug crimes in Iran, not to mention their own citizens, the same rights they demand for Iranians abroad.

    http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches...alty-execution
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    Trial Date Set for Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani

    A new trial date has reportedly been set for Youcef Nadarkhani, the Iranian pastor on death row, for Sept. 8.

    According to Present Truth Ministries, which has been closely monitoring the pastor's case, Nadarkhani will presumably be tried for crimes against security. "We assume by implication that this means the charges of apostasy have been dropped since the new charges have been issued, but we have no confirmation of that," the ministry said Thursday.

    The 35-year-old pastor from Rasht, Iran, has captured the hearts of Christians worldwide as he continues to stand firm in his Christian faith despite facing the death penalty.

    In his most recent letter (released in May) to those concerned about him, Nadarkhani stated, "I need to remind my beloveds, though my trial due has been so long, and as in the flesh I wish these days to end, yet I have surrendered myself to God's will."

    Nadarkhani, pastor in a network of house churches, was arrested on Oct. 13, 2009, after protesting the government's decision to force all children, including his own Christian children, to read the Koran.

    He was initially charged for protesting but the charges were later changed to apostasy and evangelism to Muslims. In 2010, he was sentenced to death and the ruling was upheld by the Supreme Court of Iran last year.

    According to Islamic Sharia Law, an apostate has three days to recant. The Christian pastor has refused to recant his faith.

    Present Truth Ministries and other organisations have been appealing to the public for prayers and for support, urging them to contact elected officials in order to save Nadarkhani. Execution can happen any time, the group says, even without notice.

    With the pastor still alive, Present Truth Ministries believes prayers have been working.

    The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution earlier this year condemning the imprisonment of the pastor and calling for his immediate release.

    http://sg.christianpost.com/dbase.ph...ociety&id=1922

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    Iran: 17 executions in less than 2 weeks, 220 since beginning of the year

    On the verge of Ramadan (Muslims’ fasting month), the antihuman regime of mullahs, hanged another prisoner in Iranshahr (southeast Iran) on July 19. Mullahs’ justice department accused him of killing a commander of IRGC (Iran’s revolutionary guard). On the same day a female prisoner, 28, after being six years in Adel-abad jail, was hanged in Shiraz and a man was also hanged in public in Shiraz.

    Other prisoners who were executed include 8 prisoners in Qazvin including a father and his son (9- 17 July), 3 prisoners in Kerman (July 16), 2 prisoners in Zahedan’s central prison, and another prisoner in Baft-Kerman (July 8). As such, the number of executions since the beginning of the year has reached 220, at least.

    The mullahs’ regime’s resorting to this brutal punishment is in fact the reaction of a faltering regime incapable of confronting expanding public abhorrence and widespread domestic and international crises, particularly in a condition that Syrian dictator, as its foremost regional ally, is on the verge of overthrow.

    In regard to the rising number of executions, head of regime’s State Security Force said that soft attitude “does not mean to us to put aside batons and smile to the guilty. When a person is executed, it’s like a spoiled part of body that needs to be amputated.” (state media- July 14)

    Iranian Resistance calls on international authorities, particularly human rights bodies to take urgent and firm measure to stop brutal suppression, especially savage punishment of execution, in Iran.

    Source: Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, July 22, 2012
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    Family of ex-Marine held in Iran has little news

    The family of an ex-U.S. Marine sentenced to death for spying in Iran said Friday that members have received little information about his case months after a new trial was reportedly ordered.

    Amir Hekmati was accused of working for the CIA and sentenced to death in January, the first American to receive a death penalty since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. His family and the U.S. government have denied the allegations.

    The semiofficial ISNA news agency reported in March that Iran’s Supreme Court ordered a retrial for Hekmati.

    His family released a statement Friday saying it had received “little and confusing information” about his case since then. The statement also noted that Saturday is his 29th birthday and included a prayer that he would be “given the strength to endure.”

    “While it is still unclear to us what is happening, we hope a decision is made soon and you are allowed to come home to your family,” the statement said. “We continue to believe there is a terrible misunderstanding.”

    Iran has accused Hekmati of receiving special training while serving at U.S. military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan before heading to Iran for an intelligence mission. In December, Iran broadcast a video on state television in which Hekmati was shown delivering a purported confession, saying he was part of a plot to infiltrate Iran’s intelligence agency.

    Hekmati was born in Arizona and grew up in Michigan, where his father Ali Hekmati teaches at Mott Community College in Flint. His parents are of Iranian origin.

    “Your birthday is particularly difficult for mom — a reminder of when her first son was born, and your twin sister, who shares this special day,” the statement said.

    http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/v...text|Frontpage
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    Execution Date Has Been Set For Political Prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi

    Execution date of September 10, 2012 has been set for political prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi. Khosravi who was also a political prisoner in the 80′s has been in the Intelligence Ministry’s detention since 2006.

    Gholamreza Khosravi was arrested in 2006 on charges of donating money to an opposition satellite TV station. In 2007, he was tried in a court in Rafsanjan on charges of espionage and donating money to Mohahedin Khalgh Organization (MKO). He was sentenced to three years in prison plus three years suspended sentence.

    The Intelligence Ministry appealed Rajsanjan’s court ruling. The case went to Court of Appeals in Kerman which issued a six year prison sentence for Gholamreza Khosravi.

    Khosravi’s case entered a new phase with additional charges pressed by the Defense Ministry . After one year incarceration in the Intelligence Ministry’s solitary confinement, Khosravi was transferred to the Defense Ministry’s Prison No. 64.

    After a long period of interrogations, Khosravi was put on trial in Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Pirabbasi, on Moharebeh charges (enmity against God).

    Judge Pirabbasi ruled this defendant’s charges beyond the scope of his court’s jurisdiction.

    The ruling issued by Branch 26 was overturned by the Supreme Court. The case was returned to the same court for retrial, which resulted in a death sentence issued in 2010.

    This last verdict was also overturned by the Supreme Court on technicality and was sent back to Branch 26 for retrial which ultimately resulted in a death sentence for the defendant in November of 2011.

    On April 21, 2012, the Supreme Court upheld Khosravi’s death sentence and forwarded the case to the Enforcement Division in Evin prison.

    In the last few days, Khosravi was summoned by Nasiri, the Assistant Prosecutor in Evin’s Enforcement Division and informed that his death sentence will be carried out on September 10.

    Gholamreza Khosravi a former political prisoner in the 80′s was incarcerated for five years at the time, on charges of supporting a banned opposition group.

    After about four years of incarceration in solitary confinement, in July of 2011, Khosravi was transferred to Ward 350 of Evin prison, where he currently is imprisoned.

    http://www.freedomessenger.com/archives/49685
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