To those who say we shouldn't criticize Iran, I say don't you look foolish right about now.
This is truly great news:
Amid international criticism ignited by a crusading journalist, Iran’s chief justice has spared the life of a young man who had been sentenced to be executed as the result of a cousin’s accusations of homosexual acts years earlier.
Ayatollah Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Sharudi nullified the imminent death sentence of Makvan Mouloodzadeh, 21, for violations of Iranian law and Islamic teachings, Saeid Eghbali, the defendant’s attorney, told msnbc.com this week.
Had Sharudi not intervened, Mouloodzadeh would have joined hundreds of his fellow Iranians, some of them just children when they committed their alleged crimes, who are hanged each year in jail yards and public squares. The executions are often carried out via a method designed to enhance and prolong their suffering: A rope is placed around the condemned person’s neck and he or she is hoisted from the ground with an industrial crane.
I'm stunned, pleasantly so. Let this be a lesson to keep the pressure on human rights violators, wherever they are. It's clear now the world listens.
It is not Iran that is the problem - it is Bush / Cheney and their war machine. Don't you get it man?
Posted by: Tim | 2007.11.16 at 07:05 PM