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TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have hanged a woman who killed the man who raped her.
The family of the man who was killed, Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi arrived Friday at Rajay shahr prison for the execution of 26-year-old Reyhaneh Jabbari, according to a Facebook page that was set up to try to save the woman’s life. The scene was described as a large crowd outside the prison. A world-wide uproar was caused when she was condemned to death, and people across the planet were watching to see if the Iranians would actually go through with the execution.
According to Iranian press, Jabbari’s execution was halted earlier this month in order to give her lawyer more time to convince the victim’s family to pardon her. Under Islamic law, a convicted murderer is put to death if the victim’s family demands execution.
The U.S. State Department condemned the execution of Jabbari, “an Iranian woman convicted of killing a man she said she stabbed in self-defense during a sexual assault. There were serious concerns with the fairness of the trial and the circumstances surrounding this case, including reports of confessions made under severe duress. Iranian authorities proceeded with this execution despite pleas from Iranian human rights activists and an international outcry over this case. We join our voice with those who call on Iran to respect the fair trial guarantees afforded to its people under Iran’s own laws and its international obligations.”
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Women dont have many rights in those countries. Common for men to have many wives. Boys have more rights.
There are women in THIS country, right now, serving life sentences, or sentences of many decades, for killing abusive husbands, ex-husbands, ex-boyfriends, etc. These idiots stalk and terrorize for years at a time, with no penalty beyond a piece of paper telling them to stop it right now, or they won’t get any supper. The women and/or kids or family are finally have no choice but to use deadly force, and then THEY’RE immediately arrested.
In Iran it is unheard of to have more than one wife even though Islam allows it in very rare circumstances.
It wasn’t too many years ago in this country when women who retaliated against abusive husbands were treated as criminals. Some were imprisoned for life, others for lesser times. Rationale being that more than likely she deserved it. I am glad she killed her rapist. He deserved it. She didn’t deserve to be hanged either. BUT, before casting stones reflect a little on our own sordid history when it comes to domestic violence-or rape for that matter.
@bodacious-Just what has anything that we did in the distant past have to do with this poor woman being murdered for protecting herself.
I figured you wouldn’t be able to comprehend what I was saying. Both ? and Web did understand.
@bodacious-Sorry, I misread your post.
bodacious-there is a lot of truths to your post and you bring up some good points. I don’t think we would’ve ever hanged anyone but it is a good reminder that women were treated as second-class citizens not that very long ago in our country. This woman did the right thing by defending herself at all costs. Her perpetrator got what he deserved and she should have not been punished at all for this let alone executed! What a backwards society they have over there.
She was essentially murdered both by her attacker and the Islamic State. Hopefully Demons will rip the minds and souls of all responsible apart upon the dissolution of their bodies. Islam is not an expression of freedom, but of totalitarianism, and should effectively be outlawed in all Nations. To hell with Obama’s “tolerance”. Islam is a threat, not a religion. Mohammed went straight to hell for his crimes of “conversion”. Buddha made sure of it.
The other thing I’d say about this is how many times will the United States (and other countries) ‘condemn’ heinous executions like this before they actually do something about it? Western nations still rely on Iranian Oil (including the United States). Why not really do something to end human rights abuses across the world and put a total boycott in place against Iran, China, Pakistan etc..Totally cut their nuts off. Why? Because big oil and big money doesn’t give a shit.
The words you speak seem strange coming from you and your once strong Muslim leanings
Nice bunch of people these Muslim’s.
Yes – I makes one looks forward to see how many we will import in the future.
Perhaps it will occur to someone to change our immigration policies regarding Muslims??