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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran hanged the killers of a judge, who had jailed several reformist dissidents, before a crowd of hundreds of people on Thursday.
Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar, his nephew, were hanged in front of Tehran’s Ershad judiciary complex, where they shot dead judge Hassan Moghaddas in his car in 2005.
The two were not political activists, but Tehran’s public prosecutor said Majid Kavousifar had believed the judge was corrupt. The prosecutor branded the killers as “terrorists.” (Where do they manufacture these matching designer masks?)
Judge Moghaddas had presided over the jailing of seven dissidents in 2000 after they attended a conference in Berlin on Iranian reform.
Public executions rare
Iran has one of the highest rates of execution in the world, but public executions are relatively rare.
Hoods over the heads of the judge’s killers were removed before the hanging, which took place in front of a giant portrait of Moghaddas. Hossein Kavousifar was in tears. His uncle smiled and waved goodbye.
Onlookers in the street and on the roofs of houses chanted and took pictures with mobile phones. Some laughed.
The tearful mother of one of the killers shouted: “God, please give me back my son.”
'Immoral behavior'
Dozens of people have been executed for rape, smuggling and other offences in Iran in recent weeks. Most were arrested in a crackdown on “immoral behavior,” which began in April.
Iran hanged nine men on Wednesday for rape, armed robbery and other offences. Some 16 people were hanged in July.
Murder, rape, adultery, armed robbery, apostasy and drug smuggling are all punishable by death under Iran’s Islamic Sharia law, imposed since the 1979 revolution.
The number of executions doubled to at least 177 last year, according to Amnesty International. Since the beginning of 2007, at least 124 people have been put to death. Western rights groups have called on Iran to abolish the death penalty.
Update: Kamangir has more disturbing photoes: See more, graphic, pictures here. As always, happy Iranians rushed to the scene. Truly appalling.
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11 comments:
مرگ بر ناپاکی و ذلت. مرگ بر جهالت و نیرنگ.
dear serendip,
I cannot take it any more. the innocents are dying, and we are...
shame on Islamic Regime of Iran. Shame on the culprits of this vicious regime, and shame on those who help them to hold on to their power.
katayoun
Heroes, the Kavousifar clan are heroes. If there were thirty people like them in all of Iran then the repulsive Islamic regime would be crushed in one week. Down with Islam and religious colonialism, long live the children of Cyrus the Great.
Saggezard: Absolutely, that is a heroe's smile. I will never forget this smile in facing death to the day I die.
kamangir has two more pictures of the same event. people who are watching this hangeing. One woman is smiling broadly as if watching a wedding and someone has brought a little child to enjoy watching a man die. whom can you blame now? the Mullas or these barbaric people?
serendip -- he did not surrender to the religious terrorists -- he did not let them take his spirit. I'm trying to decide just how to use that photo in a political art. It says:
You may take my life, but you can not take my spirit, my hope for Iran and my joy at having been willing and able to fight back at barbarianism an injustice.
Roxie: That is not just any old smile. It's so full of meaning. I can't begin to describe how meaningful this smile is.
I just had to cry for him! where is the world outrage? our are CNN, FOX, MSNBC, BBC, ...? where is our beloved left-wing liberals ?
May God bless his soul, he is gone, but his parent;s life must be like hell!
Anonymous: I have seen you cut and paste the same argument mindlessly and dutifully all over the blogsphere. If you are not an agent of the reigme or a pocketbook supporter consumed with fear of being cut off from the spoil-trough provided by your paymasters: Read them carefully instead of erupting like a religious zealot or mozdoor:
http://fleetingperusal.blogspot.com/2007/07/iran-15-more-executions-tomorrow-at.html
http://fleetingperusal.blogspot.com/2007/08/us-embassy-ignorance.html
Every one of those mullahs should be killed because they are responsible for thousands upon thousands of murderes, rapings, and torturers.
In case you still don't get, do not fret. I understand why:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair, 1906
your baseless and feebleminded accusations leveled against me speaks volumes about you. you cannot possibly have seen what i wrote here on other places, because i wrote it here extemporaneously. your statement "Every one of those mullahs should be killed" is in fact exactly the mentality of Ayatollah Khalkhali (the hanging judge) who used to say similar things about iranians of the previous regime. if some iranians want islam (and the overwhelming majority of iranians are muslims with strong faith) and even if some of them want to be clerics, in the name of true democracy, that is their right. you would not dare to insult or diminish the rights of a western person in religious attire (a catholic nun, for instance) but iranians need to get Your Eminence's approval first, before they can even breath fresh air.
How typical. I guess all you vevak agents go to the same English school. Why are so afraid that your beloved regime might be insulted? Did your family got rich off the mullahs. Iranians might be muslims but not your brand or your kind of Islam. You're fantacism is instructive of massive consumption of religious idiocy.
In the West, I can do whatever I can. In fact, I shut the door on some jehova witness priest who kept trying to convert me to some idiotic religion. The difference though is I don't have to be afraid of doing that in the West. If I did the same thing in Iran, I either will be beheaded or tortured by the likes of you Islamist parasites...Don't bother leaving a response. I will not publish it. I have no time for morally bankrupt and violent Islamists threatning me.
One last thing:
Overwhelming majority of Iranian are muslims with strong faith.
Overwhelming majority of Nazi in Germany were Christian of Hitelerian kind. Hitler was also democractly elected. Nothing to salvage there.
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