Iran: justice or injustice

In The Daily Mail you find an article in which is written down how inhuman in Iran the way executions take place is.

The sentenced are hung with a rope around their neck on a crane and slowly hoisted.
According to Dr Karim Abdian, executive director of the Ahwaz Human Rights Organisation in Washington, is this slow strangulation method to be used on them designed to maximise suffering. It prolongs the agony and 'intimidates the public'.
The 11 convicted Ahwazi will be executed the same way.


Balochi and Azeri groups have united behind the campaign for a halt in Iran's campaign of executions against Ahwazis. Saturday
The Balochistan Peoples Party will participate in a demonstration that takes place outside the Iranian Embassy in London.
Like the Ahwazi, Balochi also get confronted with massexecution and persecution. During the last two years the Iranian intelligence agencies, particularly the Mersad group, appear to have followed a policy of "shoot and kill" instead of arresting young Baloch accused of being members of the Baloch resistance movement
Azeri Turks, comprising around a third of the Iranian population and are also subject to racism and persecution in Iran, have also backed the campaign to halt the execution of Ahwazis.

A prominent Iranian reformist cleric has protested against the mass disqualification of candidates running for the body that chooses and supervises the Islamic republic's supreme leader.
Mehdi Karroubi accused the Guardians Council, of "injustice" and "misjudgment" in barring almost half of the hopefuls running for the Assembly of Experts elections.
In an open letter he urged the head of the Assembly, Ayatollah Ali Meshkini, to "prevent the repercussions of such acts which will result in people's distrust in the authorities and the clergy".


In Iran deathpenalty is in use. Also for child offenders.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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