PARIS, 27 Aug. (IPS) Iranians and international community expressed outrage at reported execution of the 16-year-old Ateqeh Rajabi on vague charges of un-Islamic behaviour.
According to Press reports from the Islamic Republic, Ms. Rajabi was publicly hanged on a street in the city centre of Neka in the northern province of Mazandaran, on 15 August, for "acts incompatible with chastity".
Faced with domestic and international outcry of dismay, the authorities said the young girl was “mentally incompetent”.
However, informed sources revealed that Ms. Ateqeh was sentenced to death by the judge, a cleric, because during the "trial", she expressed outrage at the misogyny and injustice in the Islamic Republic and its Islam-based judicial system.
“The lower court judge was so incensed by her protestations that he personally put the noose around her neck after his decision had been upheld by the Supreme Court”, the sources reported.
The lower court judge was so incensed by her protestations that he personally put the noose around her neck
The execution of Ateqeh Rajabi is the tenth execution of a child offender in Iran recorded by Amnesty International since 1990. Amnesty International has urged Iran’s judicial authorities to halt further executions of child offenders - people who were under 18 years old at the time of the offence. This is to bring Iran’s law and practice in line with requirements of international human rights law.
Amnesty International that expressed “outrage” at the execution of the young girl believes that the execution of Ateqeh Rajabi underlines the urgent necessity that Iran pass legislation removing provision for the execution of child offenders, thereby preventing further execution of child offenders, and bringing Iran into line with its obligations under international law.
In an article published Friday 27 August 2004 in the Germany-based internet newspaper Iran Emrooz, Dr. Hoseyn Baqer Zadeh, an Iranian human rights activist observed that the laws of the Islamic Republic are the “most inhuman, segregationist, insulting and discriminatory” against women.
“While, according to Islam-based laws, a woman accused of adultery faces capital punishment, a man can have several wives and commits adultery without punishment”, he observed.
Actually, a man who murdered his wife during her trial in a court in Shahr Rey near Tehran had been acquitted by the court that was judging the case of the woman accused of relations with another man “outside marriage”.
Interestingly, female lawmakers at the present conservatives-dominated Majles, or parliament have opposed attempts by lawyer Shirin Ebadi, the human rights activist and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2003 for improving the conditions of women in Iran.
Amnesty International is alarmed that this execution was carried out despite reports that Ateqeh Rajabi was not believed to be mentally competent, and that she reportedly did not have access to a lawyer at any stage.
The Islamic Republic are the “most inhuman, segregationist, insulting and discriminatory” against women
According to report on “Peyk-e Iran” internet website, Rajabi was sentenced to death approximately three months ago, by a lower court in Neka in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran, for "acts incompatible with chastity".
During her trial, at which a lawyer did reportedly not represent her, the judge allegedly severely criticised her dress, harshly reprimanding her. It is alleged that Rajabi was mentally ill both at the time of her crime and during her trial proceedings.
But experts have not confirmed this. On the same night that she was buried, unknown individuals reportedly removed Ateqeh’s corpse from the grave. The Rajabi family have lodged a complaint and have called for an investigation.
The co-defendant of Ateqeh Rajabi, an unnamed man, was reportedly sentenced to 100 lashes. He was released after this sentence was carried out
It is reported that although Ateqeh’s national ID card stated that she was 16 years old, the Mazandaran Judiciary announced at her execution that her age was 22.
The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence and Ateqeh Rajabi was publicly hanged in the city centre of Neka on 15 August.
The co-defendant of Ateqeh Rajabi, an unnamed man, was reportedly sentenced to 100 lashes. He was released after this sentence was carried out.
A bill to raise the minimum age for execution to 18 was reportedly under consideration by parliament in December 2003. However, the bill is believed to have been not ratified by the Guardian Council, Iran’s highest legislative body.
As a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Iran is bound not to execute child offenders. Both treaties provide that capital punishment shall not be imposed for offences committed by persons under 18 year of age at the time of committing the offence. ENDS ATEQEH EXECUTED 27804
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I think this was wrong, I saw the video on youtube as well and I'm disappointed to see that this is being done. My question to the public is why does the women gets the blame, the execution, or gets accused for having sexual relationship with other men. Doesn't the public or the people that make the law of Iraq know or understand that their men can be forcing women to do this. I have heard many times that many third world countries don't care what the men do but if a women does something wrong they make big issues, if you want to look at from the Islam's point of view then this is not the teaching of Mohammad. Islam teaches us equality and if you call yourselves Muslim then believe that too!
i think this in against any low people do make mistakes and they dont have to give their lives for it especially young people with difficulty
Just to let you know This was in Iran not Iraq and they do not make the laws there their religion does.
Itis totally outrageous and inhuman .Our hearts bleed when we hear and see such atrocities .History will wtness such cruelity to mankind.
Now you know why the armed forces of decent, free and civilized nations are out in the middle east.............................
these men have no balls!they are shit to do that!they won't go to paradise but to hell
i think they shouldent do that cause look at people now ya'll can't say nothing so ya'll really need to hush and leave them people alone ok
And Senator Obama wishes to "negotiate" with these monsters.
This type of inhuman act is totally wrong I condemn these people to a life time in hell in the name of islam? i don't think so its in the name of these sick demented people I would destroy these people in a heart beat for the good of all and in the name of PEACE
IN response to the "half-wit" Charles. Negotiation and bargaining are much more successful than full scale war. To say that we should close the door to talks and influencing is damning us (US) to global failure as we (US)cannot be the WORLD peacekeepers or NATION BUILDERS.
that was the killing of a 16 year old girl.that was not the justice that was the murder.now the god will show the justice and culprites will get the inhumane punishment by god.they should become ready for this.soon that day will come.
that was the killing of a 16 year old girl.that was not the justice that was the murder.now the god will show the justice and culprites will get the inhumane punishment by god.they should become ready for this.soon that day will come.
It's so very tragic to read about women's executions in the name of "male" hatred towards women as a whole, their dominance and obvious bravado for that sort of carnage! And to shove that kind of extremism under the carpet in the name of Islam is incomprihensible! No wonder there is so much unrest in the middle east, where revenge, unjust laws and the inability to comprehend diplomacy runs rampant. The condoners of such atrocities will meet their Maker and justice will be served. In the meantime, it saddens me to know that many more situations like this will occur before (if ever) it get's any better.
This is horrible, very horrible.
But being a female Muslim, let me assure you...this is NOT Islam. Not at all.
May this poor girl rest in peace.
Ayesha says this is not Islam, but it obviously is Islam.....one of its many forms. Just as judaism has many forms, Islam has all kinds of orthodox, and reformed, and maniacal fanatics, too. When so many thousands of muslims and their governments are acting like mindless, brainless monsters, murdering innocent people senselessly, they are defining Islam of today. Islam is allowing this to go on. Islam is responsible. Damn all religion to hell if there were a hell. Hang all the stupid vicious mullahs by their balls...every last one of them, and put all their followers on a desert island. Let them kill each other. The sooner the better. They are lower than rat shit, and deserve to be exterminated. They are not human. They are mentally ill like all who are mesmerized and controlled by evil dogma and fear.
Ayesha says this is not Islam, but it obviously is Islam.....one of its many forms. Just as judaism has many forms, Islam has all kinds of orthodox, and reformed, and maniacal fanatics, too. When so many thousands of muslims and their governments are acting like mindless, brainless monsters, murdering innocent people senselessly, they are defining Islam of today. Islam is allowing this to go on. Islam is responsible. Damn all religion to hell if there were a hell. Hang all the stupid vicious mullahs by their balls...every last one of them, and put all their followers on a desert island. Let them kill each other. The sooner the better. They are lower than rat shit, and deserve to be exterminated. They are not human. They are mentally ill like all who are mesmerized and controlled by evil dogma and fear. Religion is stupidity, and those who kill in its name are stupid. One day real wisdom will come to these people and they will begin to think for themselves. That will be the day when religion, the curse of all mankind, the bane of civilisation, will finally disappear from the earth, allowing rational peace to prevail over the world. John Lennon said it all. "Imagine no religion."
Hello Tabitha!??!! This is a weird coincidence lol. This is just another example of the devolved minds of people (generally male) given an inch of power and abuse it to compensate for the inches of their dicks which are clearly missing...why is it in these dogmatic societies when a woman is raped, in several instances, she is punished (usually by death if the family decrees it, as she is "unclean") yet the man gets away with it?It needs to STOP. These men are descending back into apes. Well, at least Iran has caught up with us a bit...I reckon theyre about in the 1500's now....witchunts and all. Its sick enough they do it in their own countries but they come over here and try and exhort their own ways on us too. And believe me, I have been harassed and insulted by middle easterners by a ratio of thirty or forty times to one westerner in my years...these males in question shouting derogatory and racist comments at me-whilst I was wearing JEANS. Im just glad that I live in a relatively tolerant society where kicking these males in the balls only gets a few more insults and not a public flogging.
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