This recent news article comes from writer Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail as a follow up to my own article to about the horror that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is still facing. I made a mistake in my article, stating that only 12 women were on death row in Iran. There are actually 35 women on death row awaiting death by stoning. One woman was only 14 and has to wait on death row until she is 18 – the legal age for stoning in Iran. Another woman is pregnant and her death by stoning sentence has been delayed until she has her baby. It’s a crime to be a woman in Iran. Iran is a barbaric, medieval country and every woman deserves to be able to leave this medieval country that taunts the world with nuclear weapons and hates its women citizens. Not only do they ban the singing of women in Iran, but their laws against women are barbaric, absurd and ridiculous.
I’ve searched the internet for photographs to prove my point. Iran is a misogynist country that hates women. It is a crime to be a woman in Iran. Prove me wrong, I wish you could. I apologize if I have offended anyone with the photographs I have found. Iran’s treatment of women, its “dirty little secret” needs to be exposed.
And for Canadians reading my blog, don’t forget that Iran tortured, raped and killed a Canadian-Iranian photojournalist and then killed her in 2003. She was a Canadian citizen. This woman’s name is Zahra Kazemi.
If you haven’t signed the petition to help save Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, please sign the petition at www.freesakineh.org.
“Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian mother who was convicted of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning, is still alive, for now – saved by an international outcry of revulsion against state barbarism. But the story isn’t over. She’s still on death row. Once the heat dies down, the regime may simply choose to hang her, instead.
“This regime has taken so many lives,” says Maryam Namazie, an Iranian human-rights campaigner who now lives in London. “There’s got to be a time when it stops.”
Stoning in Iran
The Tabriz prison where Sakineh is locked up contains 200 other death-row cases, according to Ms. Namazie. Thirty-five are women who face death by stoning. One is Maryam Baagherzaade, 25, who has been in jail for the past four years. Her execution has been postponed because she got pregnant while on a short leave from prison. The regime usually waits to kill pregnant women until after they’ve had their babies.
Then there’s Azar Bagheri, 19. She was 14 when she was forced into an unwanted marriage. Her husband later pressed charges against her, claiming that she didn’t love him and that she had had a relationship with another man. She was arrested, convicted of having sex out of wedlock, and sentenced to death by stoning when she was only 15. She has been subjected to mock stoning on two occasions – buried up to her chest and threatened with death unless she co-operated. The death-row inmates include children, adolescents and 18 people who’ve been sentenced to hang for homosexuality. Last week, a 16-year-old girl killed herself in her cell to escape hanging.
the Hanging of Women in Iran
Even a suntan constitutes a crime against Islam. “The public expects us to act firmly and swiftly if we see any social misbehaviour by women, and men, who defy our Islamic values,” Tehran’s police chief, Hossein Sajedinia, announced in April. “In some areas of north Tehran, we can see many suntanned women and young girls who look like walking mannequins. We are not going to tolerate this situation and will first warn those found in this manner and then arrest and imprison them.” As Ms. Namazie puts it: “It’s a crime to be a woman in Iran.”
You might think the regime’s habit of murdering women for imaginary crimes would earn it universal condemnation – especially from places such as the United Nations. You would be wrong. In April, Iran was given a seat on the UN Commission on the Status of Women, whose goal is “gender equality and the advancement of women.”
I put up these photographs which I found on various Human Rights websites with the sole purpose of exposing this horror to you. We’ve got the whiners and complainers who were arrested in Toronto for smashing windows at Starbucks, Tim Horton’s and Fran’s restaurant who are screaming about “their human rights abuse” during the G20 Summit. Now I want to show you what the real abuse of human rights looks like. Just so it’s “in your face” and you can do something about this and ACT UP about something that is REAL. And remember, we can protest all we want in Canada, but don’t you dare protest in Iran. The Iranian police aren’t as nice as our Canadian police and the people who torture in Iranian jails are even worse.
It’s a Crime in Iran to be a Woman
Posted by WorkingShirt on 7/17/10 • Categorized as Commentary,News
The Abuse of Women in Iran - by Stoning
This recent news article comes from writer Margaret Wente of the Globe and Mail as a follow up to my own article to about the horror that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is still facing. I made a mistake in my article, stating that only 12 women were on death row in Iran. There are actually 35 women on death row awaiting death by stoning. One woman was only 14 and has to wait on death row until she is 18 – the legal age for stoning in Iran. Another woman is pregnant and her death by stoning sentence has been delayed until she has her baby. It’s a crime to be a woman in Iran. Iran is a barbaric, medieval country and every woman deserves to be able to leave this medieval country that taunts the world with nuclear weapons and hates its women citizens. Not only do they ban the singing of women in Iran, but their laws against women are barbaric, absurd and ridiculous.
I’ve searched the internet for photographs to prove my point. Iran is a misogynist country that hates women. It is a crime to be a woman in Iran. Prove me wrong, I wish you could. I apologize if I have offended anyone with the photographs I have found. Iran’s treatment of women, its “dirty little secret” needs to be exposed.
If you haven’t signed the petition to help save Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, please sign the petition at www.freesakineh.org.
The Stoning of Women in Iran
I put up these photographs which I found on various Human Rights websites with the sole purpose of exposing this horror to you. We’ve got the whiners and complainers who were arrested in Toronto for smashing windows at Starbucks, Tim Horton’s and Fran’s restaurant who are screaming about “their human rights abuse” during the G20 Summit. Now I want to show you what the real abuse of human rights looks like. Just so it’s “in your face” and you can do something about this and ACT UP about something that is REAL. And remember, we can protest all we want in Canada, but don’t you dare protest in Iran. The Iranian police aren’t as nice as our Canadian police and the people who torture in Iranian jails are even worse.
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