You already know my take on the treatment of prisoners by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. I assume most of you read Maryam Namazie’s blog because she too covered the same topic a bit before me.
But I am asking you to go show your voices to try and stop another execution, this time in Iran.
Zanyar and Loghman Moradi, two young men, face imminent execution in Iran on trumped up charges of “enmity against god” and “corruption on earth”.
Maryam’s post has the details of what you can do. Go help out. It’s the least we can do.
2 comments
MCKN- Sri Lanka
January 14, 2013 at 8:32 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
I was jubilant with a SMS in the evening 9
Jan, said that Rizana was “EXCUSED”… read the message again
no!…she was “EXECUTED” ….all Sri Lankans’ strong feeling was that
Rizana will be EXCUSED soon…
I have no objection for the capital
punishment for the people who deserve it…. no one object to hang those who
raped that Indian Medical student few weeks ago
BUT…. did Rizana deserve to be
beheaded….
Did Rizana need to kill a 4-month baby of a
family by intension of gaining more benefits from who treats always well? Who respects humanity? No !!!
It was not her intension nor she was
treated well….
It was convinced to infant’s parents that
this was a mistake and pardons her… baby’s father was agreed but not the
mother….
Sharia low allows only victim’s nearest
relatives to grant amnesty… but hatred of so called mother didn’t
allow to alive another child who did the mistake
Rizana was unable to explain the true
story, she didn’t know the language well and she was forced… no legal support
being given at the beginning… finally they sentenced her to death…
Plenty of women coming back to homeland
from Saudi Arabia with sexual harassments, various other abuses of their
employers and also dead bodies
No “Sharia low”…. against them…
No called human right organization scream
for them…
Funny thing is that Muttur (Rizana’s
village) mosque has accepted her execution… saying it was the “GOD’s Decision”…
I cannot understand that a region stands
for hatred of human being…
I do not “HATE” anyone including my enemy
who wants to kill me without reasons… I respect all the religions equally… but
not the personal interprets for their own benefit…
I follow unspoiled Buddhism in Sri Lanka..
I am sorry Rizana… you are innocent… may
your next births (as I believe) never face such cruelty….
Avicenna
January 14, 2013 at 8:42 AM (UTC 5.5) Link to this comment
The baby was not subject to any forensic analysis.
If it was the case would have been clear since milk aspiration looks completely different in an autopsy to smothering.
MCKN if you read the article on the execution of Rizana that I linked you can see the issues with the case. You literally are forced to sign confessions that you haven’t written under duress with no recourse to any science.
This has more in common with a medieval witch hunt than any real recourse to the law.