En 16 år gammel jente ble henrettet i Iran søndag 15. august. Hun ble offentlig hengt på en gate i byen Neka, forteller nettstedet Iran Focus. Det går fram at jenta sto anklagd av Sharia-praktikerne for et seksuelt forhold, muligens var hun utsatt for en seksuell forbrytelse, og ble dømt til døden for umoral.

The sentence was issued by the head of Neka’s Justice Department and subsequently upheld by the mullahs’ Supreme Court and carried out with the approval of Judiciary Chief Mahmoud Shahroudi.

Hun hadde åpenbart tatt opp en modig kamp mot de religiøse dommerne og anklagerne, som kan behandle mennesker akkurat som de vil med Sharia-loven i hånd. I realiteten hadde hun ikke en sjanse. Dette er Shirin Ebadis hjemland.

In her summary trial, the teenage victim did not have any lawyer and efforts by her family to recruit a lawyer was to no avail. Ateqeh personally defended herself. She told the religious judge, Haji Rezaii, that he should punish the 2_kommentar perpetrators of moral corruption not the victims.

The execution of Ateqeh Rajabi is the tenth execution of a child offender in Iran recorded by Amnesty International since 1990. Amnesty International has urged Iran’s judicial authorities to halt further executions of child offenders – people who were under 18 years old at the time of the offence. This is to bring Iran’s law and practice in line with requirements of international human rights law.

A bill to raise the minimum age for execution to 18 was reportedly under consideration by parliament in December 2003. However, the bill is not believed to have been ratified by the Guardian Council, Iran’s highest legislative body.

Fordi hun forsvarte seg, og våget å argumentere for sitt liv, straffet dommeren henne med å gi henne dødsstraff. Han mente hun fortjente å dø fordi hun var «svær i kjeften»:

After her execution Rezai said her punishment was not execution but he had her executed for her «sharp tongue».

Saken:

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=80

Hos oss tar vi høflig i mot en mann som kjemper for et samfunnssystem akkurat lik det som drepte Ateqeh. Vi sier at han må ha lov å mene det han mener, i ytringsfrihetens navn. I det systemet Qazi Ahmed ønsker, dreper man mennesker som våger å si eller gjøre noe han og de religiøse ikke liker. Ingen, ikke en gang barn får lov å forsvare seg eller bli forsvart mot anklager. Det er en hån mot den fredsprisen som vi belønnet Shirin Ebadi med for hennes innsats for menneskerettigheter i Iran, at vi tar i mot en mann som Qazi og er høflige. Sånne som han er Shirin Ebadis fiende, og han er en fiende av de basale rettighetene som vi lar han få nyte godt av, han er en fiende av alle kvinner og en fiende av vanlige mennesker og av menneskerettighetene.

Barnehenrettelsen i Iran: Amnesty reagert på opplysningene om henrettelsen i går (23. august)

http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/engmde130362004

Amnesty International today expressed its outrage at the reported execution of a girl who is believed to be 16 years old, Ateqeh Rajabi, in Neka in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran, on 15 August, for «acts incompatible with chastity» (amal-e manafe-ye ‘ofat). Ateqeh Rajabi was reportedly publicly hanged on a street in the city centre of Neka.

Amnesty International is alarmed that this execution was carried out despite reports that Ateqeh Rajabi was not believed to be mentally competent, and that she reportedly did not have access to a lawyer at any stage.

The execution of Ateqeh Rajabi is the tenth execution of a child offender in Iran recorded by Amnesty International since 1990. Amnesty International has urged Iran’s judicial authorities to halt further executions of child offenders – people who were under 18 years old at the time of the offence. This is to bring Iran’s law and practice in line with requirements of international human rights law.

A bill to raise the minimum age for execution to 18 was reportedly under consideration by parliament in December 2003. However, the bill is not believed to have been ratified by the Guardian Council, Iran’s highest legislative body.

Siden 1990 er minst ti barn blitt henrettet ved hengning i Iran. Dette er grusomme forbrytelser, som europeiske land spesielt forholder seg passive til i «dialogens» og «samarbeidets» navn. Mange europeiske ledere framstår som moralsk korrumperte. Å handle med et regime som det i Iran, forsvares. På hvems premisser foregår «dialogen»? Det har vi sett under Qazi Ahmeds besøk.

Av de internasjonale byråene er det bare AFP som (24/8) har registrert drapet på den iranske ungjenta og refererer Amnestys uttalelse.

Amnesty gir denne bakgrunnen:

According to report on Peyk-e Iran, Ateqeh Rajabi was sentenced to death approximately three months ago, by a lower court in Neka in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran, for «acts incompatible with chastity».

During her trial, at which she was reportedly not represented by a lawyer, the judge allegedly severely criticised her dress, harshly reprimanding her. It is alleged that Ateqeh Rajabi was mentally ill both at the time of her crime and during her trial proceedings.

It is reported that although Ateqeh Rajabi’s national ID card stated that she was 16 years old, the Mazandaran Judiciary announced at her execution that her age was 22.

The case reportedly attracted the attention of the Head of the Judiciary for the Mazandaran province, who ensured that the case be heard promptly by the Supreme Court. In Iran, all death sentences have to be upheld by the Supreme Court before they can be implemented.

The death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court, and Ateqeh Rajabi was publicly hanged in the city centre of Neka on 15 August. According to Peyk-e Iran, the lower court judge that issued the original sentence was the person that put the noose around her head as she went to the gallows.

On the same night that she was buried, Ateqeh Rajabi’s corpse was reportedly removed from the grave by unknown individuals. The Rajabi family have lodged a complaint and have called for an investigation.

The co-defendant of Ateqeh Rajabi, an unnamed man, was reportedly sentenced to 100 lashes. He was released after this sentence was carried out.

As a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Iran is bound not to execute child offenders. Both treaties provide that capital punishment shall not be imposed for offences committed by persons under 18 year of age at the time of committing the offence.