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Iran: 5 Protesters Sentenced to Death

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/world/middleeast/18briefs-Iranbrief.html

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Iranian state television reported Tuesday that five people had been sentenced to death over the unrest that followed the country’s disputed presidential election in June. The report quoted a statement by the Justice Department saying that the five were members of terrorist and armed opposition groups. Iran began a trial in August for more than 100 prominent opposition figures and activists over the election protests. The opposition maintains that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected through fraud in the June 12 vote. At least three others caught up in the turmoil have also received death sentences.
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5 comments // Iran: 5 Protesters Sentenced to Death

  • WhiteNoise
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    • Questions : How can we cry for Neda one day and want to bomb da shit out of Iran the other ?
      Can Uncle Sam say amnesia just when it suits him ?

      A LITTLE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE...

      Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

      Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. They have long embodied this struggle. It is we who need to be taught. It was Washington that orchestrated the 1953 coup to topple Iran’s democratically elected government, the first in the Middle East, and install the compliant shah in power.

      It was Washington that forced Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, a man who cared as much for his country as he did for the rule of law and democracy, to spend the rest of his life under house arrest. We gave to the Iranian people the corrupt regime of the shah and his savage secret police and the primitive clerics that rose out of the swamp of the dictator’s Iran. Iranians know they once had a democracy until we took it away. http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090622_iran_had_a_democracy_before_we_took...

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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    • PERSIAN CAT'S OUT OF THE BAG ;)
      Iran Rap - Our History
      DEAL WITH IT !
      Young Iranians are using rap, music and poetry to fight their own cultural revolution.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7NGbRc3R1s

      YOUTH TAKE OVER OF IRAN UNSTOPPABLE !
      60 percent of Iranians are under the age of 30, and they have had enough of strict Islamic rule. The Iranian Baby Boom
      http://www.slate.com/id/2220390/

      Everywhere there are signs that the religious authorities are losing control. “We were singing, dancing in the streets, boys and girls together. We had never done this before. No one wanted to go home." “It seems people were half dead before and suddenly everyone felt alive.” The hardliners can always launch another temporary crackdown. But in the end, the 1970s Islamic revolution seems certain to be undone by its own children.

      IRAN'S MAJORITY IS UNDER 30 YEARS OLD !
      Youth, Women's Rights, and Political Change in Iran
      http://www.prb.org/Articles/2009/iranyouth.aspx?p=1

      TEHRAN BLUES : YOUTH CULTURE IN IRAN
      More than two decades after their parents rose up against the excesses of the Shah, increasing numbers of young Iranians are risking jail for things their counterparts in the West take for granted: wearing makeup, slow dancing at parties, and holding hands with members of the opposite sex.

      Kaveh Basmenji, who spent his own youth amidst the turbulence of the Islamic Revolution, argues that Iran's youth are in near-open revolt for want of greater personal freedom. Yet not long ago it was young Iranians who occupied the American embassy, or who vied for martyrdom during the disastrous Iran-Iraq War.

      Basmenji interviews members of one of the world's youngest-populated countries and tries to get to the heart of the matter: What do Iran's youth want, and how far are their elders prepared to accommodate them?
      http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/23960647/Tehran-Blues-Youth-C...

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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    • IRAN RULERS MORE BRUTAL THAN SHAH
      Clerics are more brutal than shah's regime

      Two of Iran's top pro-reform figures say police used excessive force against anti-government protesters who took to the streets last week on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover.
      Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi say authorities even struck women on their heads with batons. In a Web posting Saturday, they called such treatment an ugly act that was not even seen during the shah's response to the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled him.
      Best book on the subject : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Shah's_Men

      WHAT HAPPENED TO EHSAN FATTAHIAN ?
      In early morning of Wednesday, November 11, 2009, Ehsan Fattahian, a 28-years-old Kurdish activist, was executed in Sanandaj, the provincial capital of Kurdistan. Fattahian had been arrested on July 20, 2008, in Kamyaran in Kurdistan and charged with "working with armed opposition groups."

      He was put on trial by the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj. Like most political trials in Iran, the entire proceedings were behind closed doors and without an independent jury, in direct violation of Article 168 of Iran's Constitution.
      He was also denied an attorney, another violation of law. Fattahian rejected all charges against him. His family also stated that he had done nothing illegal.

      The Revolutionary Court sentenced Fattahian to 10 years in prison, to be served in exile in Ramhormoz, a city in Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran.
      Both Fattahian and the prosecutor appealed the verdict. In January 2009, the Appeals Court overturned the initial verdict. But instead of reducing the sentence or ordering a new trial, the Appeals Court sentenced Fattahian to death on the charge of Moharebeh, or enmity against God.

      The new sentence also represented a violation of Iran's laws. Article 285 of the law, which pertains to the Appeal Courts, states that a sentence can be increased by the Appeals Court only if the initial sentence given to the convicted is less than the minimum sentence for the offense.

      In Fattahian's case, the minimum sentence for the offense with which he had been charged was one year in jail, but he had been given a sentence of 10 years in exile. Therefore, in handing down a death sentence, the Appeal Court grossly violated the relevant law.

      http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/11/what-happened-to-eh...

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J54eZK3pKgg
      http://www.youtube.com/user/weareneda
      http://neda.webnode.com/

    • 2 years ago
  • WhiteNoise
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    • WhiteNoise:

      A DEATH IN TEHRAN
      On PBS
      At the height of the protests following Iran’s controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Agha Soltan was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran.

      Her death -- filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the web -- quickly became an international outrage, and Agha Soltan became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hard-line government’s hold on power. With the help of a unique network of correspondents in and out of the country, FRONTLINE investigates the life and death of the woman whose image remains a potent symbol for those who want to keep the reform movement alive.

      The film also explores a number of unanswered questions in the aftermath of the greatest upheaval in Iran since the 1979 revolution: How many were arrested and killed as the security forces attempted to contain the growing protest movement? To what extent was the presidential vote manipulated? What is the future of the movement that seems to have been silenced?http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/deathintehran/

      ALSO...

      FORBIDDEN IRAN
      A harrowing report from inside Iran, where FRONTLINE/World reporter Jane Kokan risks her life to secretly film shocking evidence of the torture and murder of students and journalists opposed to the regime. Kokan, in disguise, escapes the constant surveillance of Iranian authorities to interview underground and jailed activists.
      http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/iran/

    • 2 years ago
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