Do we need to go into Iran? Execution of a teenage girl
[ Bible Probe ]Posted by Bible Probe on July 27, 2006 at 18:29:08:
I think it is time we dismantle Islamic "Sharia Law", which is a scourge on the earth. This is the sort of "justice" Islam brings to the world. Below is just another reason why Islam itself needs to go...
Execution of a teenage girl
A television documentary team has pieced together details surrounding the case of a 16-year-old girl, executed two years ago in Iran.
Atefah Sahaaleh: wrongly described as being 22 years old
On 15 August, 2004, Atefah Sahaaleh was hanged in a public square in the Iranian city of Neka.
Her death sentence was imposed for "crimes against chastity".
The state-run newspaper accused her of adultery and described her as 22 years old.
But she was not married - and she was just 16.
Sharia Law
In terms of the number of people executed by the state in 2004, Iran is estimated to be second only to China.
In the year of Atefah's death, at least 159 people were executed in accordance with the Islamic law of the country, based on the Sharia code.
Since the revolution, Sharia law has been Iran's highest legal authority.
Alongside murder and drug smuggling, sex outside marriage is also a capital crime.
As a signatory of the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, Iran has promised not to execute anyone under the age of 18.
But the clerical courts do not answer to parliament. They abide by their religious supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, making it virtually impossible for human rights campaigners to call them to account.
Read this entire article here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/5217424.stm
ALSO, read about another Iranian girl (Nazanin, 17,) who fought of rapists and also ran into this Islamic "Chastity Law"
Read Iranian girl fights off rapists, sentenced to be hanged: http://bibleprobe.com/blog/?p=31
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