Iran to execute 30 on Sunday

cnn.com     Jul 26, 2008            

The condemned include people convicted of drug and alcohol offenses Iran executed 317 people in 2007, compared with 42 executions in U.S. Iran's government announced a crackdown on crime in March TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Thirty people convicted of drug and other criminal charges will be hanged on Sunday, Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency reported Saturday. A convicted Iranian drug dealer is hanged from a crane in the southern city of Shiraz in September. The 30 had their cases tried by the highest judicial authorities and were found guilty of the charges brought against them, Iran's judiciary said in a statement. The verdicts are final, and the sentences will be carried out Sunday, according to Fars. According to Amnesty International, Iran executed 317 people last year, second only to China's 470. The U.S. executed 42... [read full story]                    


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(anonymous) - Aug 4, 2008 3:10:32 AM
This is the biggest crime in the world and it is a barbaric action. I wonder that the “International Human Right” is blind itself with a big pay check to keep quiet like the other countries and societies as well!!!!!!
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(anonymous) - Jul 29, 2008 6:33:15 PM
Islamic Iran is making excessive use of the death penalty to spread fear among people mostly dissidents and activists. Although Iranian officials insist death penalty is an effective deterrent but in fact experience in past 29 years proved that death penalty is not an effective way to prevent crimes. Also Iran officials claim that death penalty is carried out only after an exhaustive judicial process which doesn't have any meaning while suspect doesn't go through a fair trial. Police force in Iran torture suspects to confess to crime whether they have done it or not and their confession under torture is a main argument that judges take into consideration to sentence suspects to death. Sadly most of judges are illiterate and they don't have any knowledge about law but sharia. They do careless about suspect rights from the beginning of trial to the end. Under above circumstances all of these sentences are against international laws and Iran is in violation of them. (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) We urge Islamic Republic of Iran's officials bring an immediate end to these executions. http://stop.torturing.us/2008/07/stop-executions.html
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(anonymous) - Jul 29, 2008 6:33:56 PM
Islamic Iran is making excessive use of the death penalty to spread fear among people mostly dissidents and activists. Although Iranian officials insist death penalty is an effective deterrent but in fact experience in past 29 years proved that death penalty is not an effective way to prevent crimes. Also Iran officials claim that death penalty is carried out only after an exhaustive judicial process which doesn't have any meaning while suspect doesn't go through a fair trial. Police force in Iran torture suspects to confess to crime whether they have done it or not and their confession under torture is a main argument that judges take into consideration to sentence suspects to death. Sadly most of judges are illiterate and they don't have any knowledge about law but sharia. They do careless about suspect rights from the beginning of trial to the end. Under above circumstances all of these sentences are against international laws and Iran is in violation of them. (International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) We urge Islamic Republic of Iran's officials bring an immediate end to these executions. http://stop.torturing.us/2008/07/stop-executions.html
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