Stop the Stoning Forever

[scribblet]

http://www.petitiononline.com/nostones/ Surely, in the name of tolerance, international cooperation and respect for Canadian/American diversity Rosie O'Donnel and Michael Moore will volunteer to take the place of these poor people.

http://www.meydaan.org/showarticle.aspx?arid=264&cid=46

URGENT: A Man and a Woman Schedule To Be Stoned on Thursday, June 21

The news about the scheduled stoning of a man and a woman in Takistan, Ghazvin, was spread through mobile phone messages and the Internet. The office of Showraye Tameen of Ghazvin province has issued the order to stone and man and a woman in public.

The judge of Branch 1 of the Criminal Court of Takistan will be present in person to throw the first stone. This was scheduled to be done on Sunday, June 17, but the Office of Showraye Tameen of Ghazvin province postponed it to Thursday, June 21.

Mokarrameh Ebrahimi is a 43 year old woman and mother of an 11 year old who has spent the past 11 years in Choubin prison in Ghazvin after being sentenced to stoning. The father of the child has also been in prison for 11 years and is scheduled to be stoned with her. cont....

[buffycat]

Indeed, this should be stopped.

How pray tell, do you suggest that happen?

How about a boycott ?

[M.Dancer]

Where on earth is Takistan?

[Drea]

http://www.petitiononline.com/nostones/ Surely, in the name of tolerance, international cooperation and respect for Canadian/American diversity Rosie O'Donnel and Michael Moore will volunteer to take the place of these poor people.

Nah -- better suited for Coulter and Limbah... 'cause they really DO deserve to be stoned (No Rush, not THAT kinda stoned LOL) and George Bush and Cheney and O'Rielly. Oh and Ezra Levant too (why not throw a Canadian in there too!).

[buffycat]

Where on earth is Takistan?

In Iran (where else - this is a Scriblett post afterall).

[Guest chilipeppers]

Guess we could sign the petition and ask our own governments and the U.N. to intervene. What would we boycot, maybe burkhas and oil.

[M.Dancer]

Guess we could sign the petition and ask our own governments and the U.N. to intervene. What would we boycot, maybe burkhas and oil.

Can't we take a page from Buffy's book and single out some taxi drivers and picket their cabs?

[Shakeyhands]

won't you be in Texas protesting against capital punishment there then???

[M.Dancer]

won't you be in Texas protesting against capital punishment there then???

...no need....just go to pearson and jeer the passengers boarding for Houston and demand they insitute a more brutal and painful death penalty than they have now, and then jeer some more and demand they justify it.

[Shakeyhands]

won't you be in Texas protesting against capital punishment there then???

...no need....just go to pearson and jeer the passengers boarding for Houston and demand they insitute a more brutal and painful death penalty than they have now, and then jeer some more and demand they justify it.

thats brilliant!

[jester]

It has been cancelled according to reports.......

[JerrySeinfeld]

won't you be in Texas protesting against capital punishment there then???

...no need....just go to pearson and jeer the passengers boarding for Houston and demand they insitute a more brutal and painful death penalty than they have now, and then jeer some more and demand they justify it.

hat'

s the most retarded thing I've heard all day.

Why don't you move to Takistan or one of the "stans" since it's such a normal everyday place to live

[scribblet]

From what I've read Iran is halting the stonings because of western protests, in particular Norway, so we can make a difference.

[kimmy]

They should adopt a more humane method of capital punishment, such as starvation, bloodletting, or drawing and quartering.

She's served 11 years in prison and finally been sentenced to death... for the horrible crime of having a child out of wedlock? Iran is a piece of garbage.

-k

[M.Dancer]

They should adopt a more humane method of capital punishment, such as starvation, bloodletting, or drawing and quartering.

She's served 11 years in prison and finally been sentenced to death... for the horrible crime of having a child out of wedlock? Iran is a piece of garbage.

-k

They should at very least have the opportunity for trial by ordeal......

[Remiel]

They should at very least have the opportunity for trial by ordeal......

Now there is a medieval principle that should see a revival, hehehehe...

Really though, it has persisted in some form even until modern times. Was there not a standard in hanging and electrocution that if you survived something like three attempts, you were set free?

[scribblet]

I was listening to a radio discussion on this last night , but I'm not clear today if it happened or it was stayed. What was unappetizing were the calls from a couple of people condoning it.

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.....427604267&par=

Tehran, 20 June (AKI) - Makrameh Ebrahimi on Thursday will be stoned to death in a square in front of the cemetery of Takestan, in Ghazvin province some 100 km from Tehran, for having had a child out of wedlock 11 years ago, women's rights groups in Iran said. The Islamic Republic denies issuing stoning death sentences and carrying them out. Thursday's is the first death sentence by stoning to be publicly announced and rights groups say the population has been invited to participate and throw stones.

[buffycat]

Here is another piece, again I'm not sure if this stoning has been stopped:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2..._stoned_in.html

There are numbers here for various Iranian governmental departments - if anyone feels so inclined to give them a ring and voice their support on the ban of stoning.

[kimmy]

That last article appears to be recycled content from the article Meydaan article that started this thread. Not sure if it's current.

I heard on CBC yesterday that the execution has been put on hold, for the time being.

-k

[jester]

seems to be still on hold...........

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/arch...6/22/2003366326

Taipei Times - archives

[jbg]

http://www.petitiononline.com/nostones/ Surely, in the name of tolerance, international cooperation and respect for Canadian/American diversity Rosie O'Donnel and Michael Moore will volunteer to take the place of these poor people.

The same way Gore will give up his corporate jet, or Suzuki his tour bus, for the benefit of the environment and to stop global warming.

[scribblet]

Here's a new twist, its a man this time. I wonder why Norway gets involved again.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/10/...ran-Stoning.php

TEHRAN, Iran: A man convicted of adultery was stoned to death last week in a village in northern Iran, an Iranian judiciary spokesman said Tuesday, the first time in years that the country has confirmed such an execution.

Jafar Kiani was stoned to death Thursday in Aghchekand, 200 kilometers (124 miles) west of Tehran, said spokesman Ali Reza Jamshidi.

Death sentences are carried out in Iran after they are upheld by the Supreme Court. Under Iran's Islamic law, adultery is punishable by stoning.

Jamshidi did not elaborate on how the stoning was carried out. Under Islamic rulings, a man is usually buried up to his waist, while a woman is buried up to her neck with her hands also buried. Those carrying out the verdict then throw stones until the condemned dies.

International human rights groups have long criticized stoning in Iran as a "cruel and barbaric" punishment.

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Before Iran's confirmation, U.N. human rights chief Louise Arbour condemned the execution, her spokesman said.

"The execution has apparently gone ahead despite Iran's moratorium on execution by stoning, a moratorium that had been in effect since 2002," said Jose Diaz of U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

"Stoning is in clear violation of international law," Diaz said in Geneva. He said Arbour considered stoning to be a form of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment that is prohibited under an international treaty that Iran has signed.

In Oslo, Norway, Iran's ambassador was summoned by Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere to protest the stoning, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry said.

Stoere was "deeply upset" that the death penalty had been carried out and called stoning an "inhumane and barbaric method of punishment," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Frode Andersen.

The reported execution came two weeks after international pressure, including protests from Norway, caused Iranian officials to delay carrying out the sentence against Kiani and his female companion, Mokarrameh Ebrahimi, who also was sentenced to death by stoning. It was not known if a date had been set for her execution.

Norway's embassy in Teheran will try to arrange for representatives of the international community to visit Ebrahimi in prison, the Norwegian foreign ministry said.

The couple had reportedly been imprisoned for 11 years.

Stoning was widely imposed in the early years after the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the pro-Western Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and brought hard-line clerics to power. But in recent years, it has seldom been applied, although the government rarely confirms when it carries out stoning sentences.

.....cont.

[scribblet]

I need to edit the body for superfluous lines but the edit function isn't there.... sorry

funny, its there on this post, what gives.

Edited July 10, 2007 by scriblett

[ScottSA]

Here's a new twist, its a man this time. I wonder why Norway gets involved again.

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/10/...ran-Stoning.php

TEHRAN, Iran: A man convicted of adultery was stoned to death last week in a village in northern Iran, an Iranian judiciary spokesman said Tuesday, the first time in years that the country has confirmed such an execution.

They were taking a lot of heat for gender inequality, so they thought this was a fine way to take the heat off while preserving their culture, perhaps?

[scribblet]

Good point - total equality over there -