THIS WEEK
The defendant, identified only by his first name Majid, 27, was sentenced by the court to be blinded in both eyes, the hard-line daily Quds wrote. It added that Majid was found guilty of blinding a woman identified as Ameneh Bahrami in 2004.
The phrase "an eye for an eye" is very stringently adhered to in Iran's Islamic law. Iran's Islamic penal system regularly practices centuries-old sentences for petty crimes, such as amputation of limbs, eye gouging, stoning to death, and throwing prisoners off a cliff in a sac.
10 more executed this week
Tehran, Iran, Nov. 26 – Iranian authorities on Wednesday hanged 10 people, including a woman, in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.
All 10 were accused of murder, the state-run news agency Fars quoted the official presiding over the executions, identified as Mr. Jabberi, as saying.
The woman was identified by other state media as Fatemeh Haqiqat-Pajouh. She was accused of killing her temporary husband, although there are reports that she did so since he had tried to rape her daughter from a previous marriage.
Iranian authorities routinely execute dissidents on bogus charges such as armed robbery and drug trafficking.
Executions in Iran have risen sharply in the second half of the year. At least 63 people were hanged in August, and 29 people were hanged simultaneously in Tehran on 25 July.
Evin Prison was built by the Shah’s regime as a modern security prison to house political dissidents, but it became the Islamic Republic’s most dreaded gulag and the site of thousands of political executions. Ward 209 is exclusively set aside for political prisoners.
Courtesy Iran Focus
2 comments:
I really would love to know the mail address of Evin Prison in Theran to send letters and postcards to the political prisoners in there to show them my support and tell them that they are not alone, that we want them to survive.
Please post it here or in my own blogg.
Thank you
I really would love to know the mail address of Evin Prison in Theran to send letters and postcards to the political prisoners in there to show them my support and tell them that they are not alone, that we want them to survive.
Please post it here or in my own blogg.
Thank you
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