Iran Mulls Death Penalty For Offensive Bloggers (VIDEO)

A new Al Jazeera English video reports that Iran is considering a law that would make "offensive" blogging punishable by death. The video notes an Amnesty International report claiming that 90 percent of all state-sanctioned execution in 2008 occurred in Iran, China or Saudi Arabia.

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[AN2009]

Hasn't this penalty been covertly implemented in China already...

[anti-tazi]

More info for those who are interested in plight of Iranians:

Amir-Hossein Saran Dies in Prison
Another Prisoner’s Family Mourns a Death - 2009.03.08

http://www.roozonline.com/english/archives/2009/03...


http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSN2436435020090324

http://www.iranhumanrights.org/themes/profiles/profile/article/majid-tavakoli.html

Write to Iranian leaders to stop the execution of Farzad Kamangar, a 32 year old Kurdish teacher and social activist, sentenced to death following an unfair trial.

Go here:

http://www.iranhumanrights.org/themes/far-right-page/petition-to-protest-death-penalty-for-journalist.html


The following university students, labor activists, and writers are some of the known prisoners of conscience in Iran at this time, according to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
http://www.iranhumanrights.org/

Keep an eye on them and demand their release by signing petitions circulating or by contacting the above link.

Yaser Torkman ,Mehdi Mashayekhi ,Ronak Safazadeh ,Mansoor Osanloo ,Alieh Eghdamdoust, Ahmad Ghasaban, Majid Tavakoli , Esmael Samanpour , Nariman Mostafavi ,Mohammad Pourabdollah ,Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand , Ayatollah Kazemini Boroujerdi ,Shabnam Madadzadeh ,Hossein Torkashvand , Abbas Khorsandi , Saanaz Allahyari ,Kourosh Daneshvar , Abbas Hakimzadeh , Mehdi Noori ,Massoud Samavatyan , Alireza Montazer ,Habib Ghovati , Majid Alasti , Mehrdad Soori , Mohammad Reza Sediqi , Hasan Harischian


more info:
http://www.amnesty.ca/resource_centre/news/view.php?load=arcview&article=4657&c=Resource+Centre+News

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/010/2006

[anti-tazi]

The IRI "clerical-­industrial doesn't really really need any laws to do what they've been doing all along

The country is lawless. The laws in the Constitution are not taken seriously. If they followed the laws in the constitution of Iran, the country would have been a half decent democracy.

The ex-President of Iran, Rafsanjani is a wanted man in Argentina. In fact, if you're not a thug in Iran, you will not move up the ladder of "success".

The head of Judiciary in Iran is a wanted man in Canada for killing Zahra Kazemi. His name is Mortazavi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saeed_Mortazavi

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/20/mir-sayafi-iranian-blogge_n_177553.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jillian-york/in-memory-of-omidreza-mir_b_177609.html

http://iranian.com/main/2009/mar/postcard-diplomacy

http://iranian.com/main/blog/paymaneh-amiri/khavaran-silencing-dead

Serial murders of 1988:
http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/mena/iran1205/3.htm

This is what's happening under non-secular, non-US backed Islamic theocracy:

http://www.meydaan.org/English/default.aspx

http://www.meydaan.org/English/wwShow.aspx?wwid=1027

http://meydaan.org/English/showarticle.aspx?arid=299


Will Obama Listen to Iran's Bloggers?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123785115192919205.html

http://iranian.com/main/2009/mar/bad-start

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/20/AR2009032003000.html

http://iranian.com/main/albums-5 (read the comments because the article is in Persian)

[Wozzeck]

Stuart Whatley's one paragraph states: " A new Al Jazeera English video reports that Iran is considering a law that would make "offensive" blogging punishable by death. The video notes an Amnesty International report claiming that 90 percent of all state-sanctioned execution in 2008 occurred in Iran, China or Saudi Arabia."

However, the video does NOT mention the Amnesty report.

Further, Whatley omits the USA from the report findings:
"in 2008 China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and
the United States of America were the five states with the highest rate of executions.
Together they carried out (93%) of all executions worldwide"

[Wozzeck]

What does the proposed law actually say? . So far, the only description I've seen is from "The Insitute of Religion and Public Policy", which has an editorial board that includes Midge Decter and Irving Kristol.
Part of the same crew that sold us the Iraq War.

[WorkingClass]

Its the only way you can be absolutely sure they wont do it again.

[Hazbara]

A country that puts bloggers to the gallows should not have nuclear privileges.

[Mollabaji]

a naive person who believes what he gets from Arab(anti-Iran) Aljazeera, has no right to tell ANYONE to have or not to have nuclear "privileges". End of discussion.

[Paulo1]

Ah the joys of fundamentalism. Does this mean that my posts here are going to get me fatwa'ed ? Please say it is so. Now that we have un-unelected Bush and his Disaster I miss being spied on and persecuted by a religiously fundamentalist state.

[OswegoKayaker]

Great post -- so true. I really dislike fundamentalism of any strip but especially the ones who call themselves Christians and then act like Taliban. The Republicans here almost had total political control for so many years that we probably don't even realize how many of our rights have been trashed. It was getting pretty scary -- I thought so many had been brainwashed into Bush-thought that we would be saddled with the Repugricht forever.

[Spencaa]

Iran's in the need for another revolution

[Mollabaji]

o.k. see if you can dig out the old shah from his grave and bring him back.

[IntellectuallyHonest]

I guess we should be thankful that we are not put to death for our honest comments about the injustices in our country. Thank you, neoconservatives! Thank you, thank you so much! Sorry, but you guys can't have my support for an attack on Iran. You'll have to learn to fly bombers or infiltrate and take care of the Iranian nuclear program yourselves. As if we have a right to a monopoly on nuclear weapons and energy.

[Citizen54]

Gimme that old time religion...

[ReasonBased]

Actually it is the liberal far left that doesn't get it. These people mean business and no, Islam, is not a religion of peace and not the islamic threat to humanity is most certainly not exaggerated but I guess it takes one kind of religious fanatic to understand another.... so the republicans got it right.

[OswegoKayaker]

The Republicans got what right? Going into Iraq and breaking up the government so that Al Quada could have a whole country to recruit and train people? We went in and destroyed their country and left a power vacuum. Saddam, as awful as he was, kept Iran in check. We fired the soldiers and police so Al Quada had a whole country full of unemployed, angry young men. Bush's war was one mess after another, one mistake after the next and death everywhere. But oh the money to Cheney Inc. with no-bid contracts to Halliburton. We made mistake after mistake there and now Iran has its tentacles everywhere in the Arab world. We should have finished the war in Afganistan and now we would be in a better position to take on Iran.

[cyrano1]

The Al Jazeera reporter stated that even mullahs blog, and they communicate with each other using this medium to come up with new religious decrees. (Code word: FATWAH!!)

Okay, everyone, is it time to duck? Time for us to change to a server that preserves anonymity?

[Wozzeck]

Stuart Whatley writes: " A new Al Jazeera English video reports that Iran is considering a law that would make "offensive" blogging punishable by death. The video notes an Amnesty International report claiming that 90 percent of all state-sanctioned execution in 2008 occurred in Iran, China or Saudi Arabia."

1. The video does NOT mention the Amnesty report.
2. Whatley conveniently leaves out the USA from the report findings:
"in 2008 China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and
the United States of America were the five states with the highest rate of executions.
Together they carried out (93%) of all executions worldwide"
3. Sunni Al Jazeera regularly runs hit pieces against Shia Iran.
4. What the proposed law actually says should be investigated. So far, the anti-Iran echo chamber is basing its attack on a report by the neocon outfit "The Insitute of Religion and Public Policy", which has an editorial board that includes Midge Decter and Irving Kristol.

[woundedduck]

Are you saying the mullahs are mulling?

Thank you very much I'm here all week.

[MisterMongo]

Ba Dump Bump!