Originally posted by Brasov
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by casenately
Tell me if I'm wrong, but they just recently announced this man's death sentence, but he was arrested and has been held in custody since August 2009.
It's called DUE PROCESS, the U.S. instead has Guantanamo and torture flights.
You crack me up! How much you really know about Iran is coming in loud and clear!
"List of 101 people secretly executed"
"The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has published a list of the names of 101 people who it says were executed secretly in Vakil Abad Prison in the last two years, near the northeastern city of Mashhad. The Campaign called on the Majles and judiciary to immediately institute a moratorium on executions and to move swiftly to abolish the death penalty. "Unfortunately, many of these executions happen behind closed doors, without the involvement of lawyers or awareness of the victim's family, and without access to a fair trial," said Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi. She added, "The Iranian judiciary and government know that the death penalty is not a suitable solution for fighting crime, particularly drug-related crimes. The basic question is this: why does the Iranian government use this type of punishment with such enthusiasm? The issue is that these executions only create fear and intimidation and serve only a political purpose. All of the statistics show that while the number of executions have increased the number of drug-related crimes have not decreased at all." The campaign's list counter judiciary chief Sadegh Amoli Larijani's statement of December 21: "I categorically deny any secret mass executions.... All executions are announced to my office...if anyone has information about executions anywhere that have been secret and without families' knowledge, let us know and we will investigate it."
www.pbs.org...
Here's a link to the published names of those people if you want them:
www.iranhumanrights.org...
Do you want to know why all of these are done in private? And for drug convictions? Yet drug arrests keep going up? Probably because they're really NOT drug convictions!!
edit on 11-1-2012 by Deetermined because: (no reason given)



