Turmoil in Tehran
There’s rioting over gas rationing in Iran. Bloggers covering the turmoil here , here, and here. Iran is blaming–who else?–the U.S. for the unrest.
Meanwhile, human rights groups are paying attention to Iran’s execution of minors:
In a troubling report on the execution of minors in Iran, Amnesty International said yesterday that at least 71 child offenders are on death row and more than 24 have been executed since 1990, more than in any other country.
Defendants younger than 18 are being hanged after swift decisions and hurried procedures, said the report, “Iran: The Last Executioner of Children.” Of the 24 child offenders reported executed, 11 were still younger than 18 at the time of their deaths.
The 41-page report lists names and details of each known case but says the actual number of executions was higher because many death penalty cases in Iran go unreported…
…Iranian officials deny that the government executes minors, although two such executions have been recorded this year, according to Amnesty’s Iran country specialist, Elise Auerbach.
Under Iranian law, capital offenses include adultery by married people, incest, rape, four convictions of an unmarried person for fornication, three convictions for drinking alcohol, or four convictions for homosexual acts among men.
The report noted the emergence in recent years of a growing movement for the abolition of the death penalty for minors. The report said activists, lawyers, journalists and children’s rights advocates have stepped up to represent minors on death row and in some cases prevented executions by highlighting miscarriages of justice. They have campaigned for an abolition of the laws allowing for such executions, putting themselves at great personal risk and facing bureaucratic harassment and travel bans.
In one case outlined in the report, Sina Paymard was a 16-year old drug addict in 2004 when he was sentenced to death for knifing a man during a fight over a marijuana purchase. Two weeks after his 18th birthday in 2006, he was taken to the gallows to be hanged.
With a noose around his neck, Paymard’s final request was to play the ney, a reed flute, which his father had given him. The mellifluous tune moved the victim’s relatives, who agreed to a payment from his family in lieu of his execution. After the family struggled to collect the $160,000, the victim’s relatives refused to accept it. Paymard remains on death row in a prison in Karaj.
Several of the child offenders on death row are members of minority groups, such as Iranian Arabs, Afghan refugees, homosexuals, and young girls who had been abused and molested.
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The Corner’s Iran round-up here.
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“members of minority groups, such as … and young girls who had been abused and molested.”
I wonder.
Are we witnessing the regression of human evolution and development manifest in Iran? I think so.
See they’re a lot like us. Only gas prices move the masses.
When you’re born and raised in a society that requires life to be lived as it was in the 7th century, this is what you get.
Brutality and barbaric laws were the norm at that time and still live on in the religious oppression of Islam in the middle east.
Where is Nance Pelosi when you really need her!
Sanctions can work if it comes from a united security council and the people of iran realize that their government is to blame.I think their access to world news is limited.
They are too extreme with their laws but I think we are too easy .I mean we have DNA now. Why do we have to pay for convicted murderers to live ?
I am not talking about children . I believe there is an age of accountability .
Iran’s strife show their weak link and a perfect strategy that our government should use to support the end of Iran’s nuclear program. Sadly our moron in chief will probably resort directly to military action which will lead to further turmoil not a resolution to the issues at hand
Cut off the external gas supplies (around 40% of Iranian usage) and in 2-3 months, they shut down the plants and start opening starbucks and target stores
Pelosi is having the Pentagon gas up another plane to have a meeting with the regime ‘commmitted to peace’ as ‘the alternate president’. After all, didn’t the Iraq commission recommend engaging Syria AND Iran in dialogue?
Beating Iran is obviously easy. We have a template of what happened when we took the big screen plasma TV’s away from North Korea. Like Supersean said, we could control them in 2-3 months by cutting off their gasoline supply.
Why does the American government have to make the simple difficult?
Hard to know what exactly to make of this.
No doubt there is a large amount of discontent – mostly because the economy is so bad. Nearly a quarter of all Iranians under the age of 27 are unemployed. Inflation is ruinous. And there are shortages of cooking oil and other food stuffs.
This gasoline rationing may have been the last straw for a lot of people. But remember who has the guns. And they are not afraid to use them. Any popular uprising will be suppressed with the utmost brutality – all in the name of “Allah” of course.
I’m all for the death penalty, but when you get below 18 or so, that’s just wrong. I guess Allah doesn’t mind watching kids dangle on the end of a rope, thier bodies shaking in throes of agonizing death. Tongues blue and swollen hanging from the mouths of young people, dying in a room that is likely filled with “Holy Men”. Damned peaceful religion.
Michelle, my apologies if that got a little graphic. Sorry.
Wow, a country that can refine uranium, but not refine their most abundant resource.
How rife with irony.
Desdenova,
Could not have explained the situation better… Ooooh the irony!
Amnesty International better check their key on their computers. They accidentally condemned someone else, and it’s not even USA.
Should read:
Insert Israel key
The Left is MUM on the hell in Iran. The nation is run by thugs ruled by a delusional religion.
But Pelosi Galore and the Democrats *Believe* they can negotiate with those animals. Will they have to wear masks like the Iranian Cops?
I wonder if the Democrats want to model their “Fairness Doctrine” after Khameini’s, the dying morphine addicted Mullah of all Mullahs?
Many hundreds of thousands of people have perished in Iran since the Ayatollah Khomeini took over. A Kurdish friend of mine here in the states said it has happened through the Islamic perversion of the culture.
Mental illness and family dysfunction are high as a result. It is a society that is rotting from within.
An oil rich nation that has to import its gasoline……it says alot about the incompetence of 8th century theocrats trying to run a nation that wants modern power.
Kinda reminds me of the global warming mullahs in this country…incompetent boobs…burn alternative fuels, like ethanol….and then watch the price of milk inflate like a cheap balloon…..i know we can just keep goat herds like the Palestinians. (it’s a joke!)
Hey! It’s just like the liberal whack jobs say “It’s all connected.”