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ВАРВАРСТВО В ИРАНЕ
ВАРВАРСТВО В ВЕК ИНТЕРНЕТА (www.newsru.com/world/12jul2010/sangsar.html)
Приведение в исполнение приговора 43-летней иранке Сакине Мохаммади Аштиани приостановлено. Об этом сообщил иранскому информационному агентству ИРНА представитель судебной власти в провинции Восточный Азербайджан Малек Аждар Шарифи.
По его словам, "приговор пока не будет приведен в исполнение из гуманистических соображений", однако экзекуция может состояться в любой момент "по решению руководства судебной власти ИРИ, невзирая на пропаганду западных средств массовой информации", передает ИТАР-ТАСС.
Сакине Мохаммади Аштиани была приговорена в 2006 году к "сангсар" - редко применяемому в современном Иране, однако предусмотренному исламским законодательством виду высшей меры наказания. Это особо жестокий способ казни - забрасывание камнями насмерть.
Как правило, такой приговор выносится лицам, уличенным в супружеской измене. Значительно чаще "сангсар" применяется к виновным в прелюбодеянии женщинам, нежели мужчинам.
В минувшую пятницу, 9 июля, официальный представитель Госдепартамента США Марк Тонер выступил с осуждением практики осуществления смертной казни через избиение камнями.
Отмены приговора Сакине Мохаммади Аштиани потребовали международные правозащитные организации, ряд западных средств массовой информации, известные деятели культуры, в частности, США и Франции.
По данным иранских источников, Аштиани была признана судом виновной "во внебрачных связях, убийстве и других преступлениях".
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Stoning and Juvenile Execution in Iran
Slow and painful
This week has exposed once again some of the loathsome aspects of Iran's Islamic regime – the stoning of women who were accused of adultery, and the execution of people convicted of crimes committed when they were still minors.
The story that caught the headlines this week was that of Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a 43 year old mother of two, who is facing death by stoning. The terms of the sentence under Iranian law call for Ashtiani to be buried up to her chest and then pelted with medium-sized stones until she dies – slowly and in great pain. Ashtiani has already been punished with 99 lashes for having an "illicit relationship", and later again charged, for the same felony, with adultery, which carries the death sentence in Iran. A spokesman for the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) said that "if Ashtiani is brutally stoned to death, especially under these circumstances, it will confirm the view that the Iranian judicial system is operating completely outside the norms of international human rights standards, and human decency."
Rescue attempts
Human rights organizations have begun a worldwide campaign to save Ashtiani, turning to Iran's judiciary with a request to cancel her sentence, as well as asking the Iranian Parliament (Majlis), to repeal the death sentence by stoning completely and immediately. Mina Ahadi, head of the International Committee Against Stoning and the Death Penalty, said that only substantial international pressure could eventually prevent Ashtiani's execution. On July 6, Amnesty made a new call to the Iranian government to immediately halt all executions and commute all death sentences. The group has recorded 126 executions in Iran from the start of this year to June 6.
While Ashtiani's story received extensive media coverage around the world, including a piece on CNN, human rights activists report that two other Iranian women, Azar Bagheri (19) and Marian Ghorbanzadeh (25), are facing death by stoning. Mina Ahadi, who also helped Ashtiani's children launch their international campaign, said: "When Azar was arrested she was only 15. They couldn't punish her before she turned 18 years old, according to the law, so they waited until now; they want to stone her to death." She has already been subjected to mock stoning, said Ahadi, complete with the partial burial in the ground – "They're preparing her for the real one."
The death of "The Prisoner of Colors"
The fact that Azar Bagheri was only 15 when she committed the offence reveals another shocking phenomenon in Iran – the execution of people convicted of crimes committed when they were still minors. Currently on the agenda is the execution of Mohammad Reza Haddadi, who faces the death sentence for a crime he committed when he was 15; in the past, the execution was postponed a few times, but it is now imminent. Amnesty International has called time and again on the Iranian authorities to take immediate steps to end the use of the death penalty for underage offenders. One of the more famous cases of juvenile execution was Delara Darabi, whose artistic work earned her the nickname "The Prisoner of Colors".
"Oh mother, I see the hangman’s noose in front of me. They are going to execute me. Please save me."
This was Darabi's last conversation with her parents from the Central Prison in Rasht; a guard snatched the phone away and hung up with a taunt: "We are going to execute your daughter and there’s nothing you can do about it." She was hanged shortly after this conversation.
Darabi's execution marked the sad end to an international campaign that included diplomatic pressure from other countries as well as human rights organizations, websites and social networking services – all of which tried and failed to save Delara Darabi. This is unfortunately the usual consequence; the Iranian regime continues its executions policy despite international pressure from human rights organizations.
A film documenting Darabi's life and death, "A Prisoner of Colors", was produced following her execution.
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