I'm sure Iranian President Imachickenhead will do the same thing with these new reports as he has done with the other reports from Amnesty International and United Nations Human Rights Council - laugh!
Amnesty International released a report way, way back in 2007 slamming Iran for the prehistoric sentences they routinely hand out for crimes such as women not dressed correctly, adultery, homosexuality, apostasy, robbery, rape, walking your dog, and quite possibly, passing gas without permission. Some of the crimes are punishable with sentences of - eye gouging, amputation of limb's and flogging to immediate execution by varying and creative means.
Be it adult or child, the most common form of execution in Iran is death by hanging. Most 'criminals' are hung in public like pictures at a starving artists sale. The problem with these public hangings is - they get boring. You know - pull the switch.... watch the person drop and that's it! Pretty Ho-Hum after a seeing a few swinging souls - huh?
My favorite is about two guys convicted of rape... after being found guilty, they were each placed in a burlap sack and thrown off a cliff! I guess the Appeal Courts were busy!
One of the long used techniques that is goining in popularity is the practice of stoning people to death. I have posted before on getting "stoned" in Iran. Well after issuing last year's report ignored, Amnesty International is upset that people are still being stoned to death in Iran.
The Iranian government denies these latest claims (who da thunk it?). Noting there are currently 11 people (9 women) waiting to be "stoned" to death, the latest Amnesty report calls this method of execution - “grotesque and unacceptable” and says this, “horrific practice” was “specifically designed to increase the suffering of the victims”.
From Iran Focus --
“Iran's Penal Code prescribes execution by stoning. It even dictates that the stones are large enough to cause pain, but not so large as to kill the victim immediately. Article 102 of the Penal Code states that men should be buried up to their waists and women up to their breasts for the purpose of execution by stoning. Article 104 states, with reference to the penalty for adultery, that the stones used should ‘not be large enough to kill the person by one or two strikes; nor should they be so small that they could not be defined as stones’”, Amnesty said. More....
Wow! Here in this country we debate whether if three needle injections can be considered cruel and unusual punishment - in Iran they consider the size of the stone your head will be bashed in with!
These guys make "water boarding" look like water polo.
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