Iran executes 2 Gay Teens.

[C0ckney]

Re: Re: Re: Iran executes 2 Gay Teens.

Originally posted by lord of the mark


first visit to apolyton? and you go immediately to the offtopic forum? The site IS about gaming, ya know. Or did you do a search on something like "invade Iran" and this came up?

if you were an EVC d/l, what's the first thread you would visit?

[Dis]

Originally posted by Ming


Has anybody in the Democratic Party leadership expressed their outrage yet

have you taken care of the obvious DL in this thread yet .

It's sad when a DL and the poster who created it argue with each other.

[GePap]

Man, these threads degenerate so fast.

For the "invasion:war" crowd: Never was going to happen, EVER. But it always amazes me people can keep such obviously fallacious and insane dreams alive.

With Half a Million men the US couldn;t keep South Vietnam pacified. Lets get real here folks.

As for "international condemnation": not really going to happen.

1. Two people dead is hardly of much note. With the number of attrocities that happen in the world daily, this sadly is small fry stuff.

2. In too much of the world Iran's actions are probably approved off.

[MrFun]

GePap, I'm sure some of the international human rights organizations will make some form of appeal for action.

[notyoueither]

How old were these teens?

[Az]

While GePap is obviously completely right, what really disturbs me is this vibe I get from him that he's actually happy about the situation.

[Ecthy]

You could still turn Bushehr into one big chunk of glass. Israel?

[Carolus Rex]

Originally posted by notyoueither

How old were these teens?

Uhm, somewhere between 13 and 19?

Carolus

[TheStinger]

Millwall anren't cancelling their match because of this, its because millwallfans are idiots anren't can't distinguish between the football team of a shia nation and the actions of UK sunni extremists

[lord of the mark]

Ganji Is Not Alone

Shirin Ebadi


Akbar Ganji's perilous condition is just one distressing example of the dire state of Iran's political and ideological prisoners recently highlighted in the media. Defending Ganji and publicizing his protests is the responsibility of every human rights activist and thse who care to raise the dignity of human life in Iran.

As Akbar Ganji's lawyer and someone who, because of my work on this imprisoned journalist's behalf, has been subject to myriad accusations and threats, I would like to address all human rights activists with a cautionary note. Let us not forget all other political and ideological prisoners who aren't as well-known as Mr. Ganji. Those who have been forgotten in various prisons including Evin, Rejaee Shahr and other near and far flung provincial prisons and are doing hard time. Prisons filled with such human strife and suffering have hardly been reported in Tehran Judiciary's recent report.

In some of these prisons, political inmates endure the torture of solitary confinement while in other facilities they actually request such confinement to escape their murderous and criminally hardened cellmates. There are many detainees who have suffered long term mistreatment and are denied access to a lawyer and for whom only hunger strikes offer a slight chance of garnering a minimum of their human rights.

The harshness of treatment they receive too bears no proportion to their political or ideological acts. Recall Mojtaba Saminejad whose only crime was to publish a personal weblog with very limited readership. He was regarded as a hardened outlaw and his hands and feet shamelessly shackled when taken to and from courtrooms.

We must work together for the freedom of all political and ideological prisoners. To ensure that their human rights receive a minimum level of protection, it is essential that we do not allow them to fade away from memory, a fate that a majority of them have already suffered.

__________________________________________________ ___________
Shirin Ebadi is an attorney, human rights activist and winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for championing human rights, especially the rights of women and children. She was the first female judge in Iran. She is an outspoken reformer and a regular contributor to Rooz.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Not a word from them as of yet.

Of course, considering what our allies like SA, Pakistan, Egypt, etc. do to gays,

saw this tidbit on the BBC:

"Homosexuality is illegal in almost all Muslim countries, and punishable by death in many of them.

But gay and human rights groups say Iran's record is particularly shocking, having executed possibly thousands of gay men since the Islamic revolution"

[Solly]

I actually think this is one of the most pointless threads I've seen on Poly for a long time.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Az
While GePap is obviously completely right, what really disturbs me is this vibe I get from him that he's actually happy about the situation.

No kidding.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
I actually think this is one of the most pointless threads I've seen on Poly for a long time.

Because it's about Muslims doing something you approve of, so you can't use it as a reason to keep them out of your country?

[Solly]

Well I'm sure I've seen MrFun and his ilk complaining about Western involvement in the Middle East recently...