Sakineh Ashtiani has been in jail since 2006 waiting to be put to death by stoning, despite insisting on her innocence. A recent international outcry caused the Iranians to withdraw the sentence of stoning. Perhaps they could not produce the 4 eye witnesses required by Sharia Law to justify the stoning to their Islamic allies.
But no problem. A couple days of torture later and we have a new scenario: Woman admits to conspiracy to murder her husband, and denounces her lawyer, who was forced to flee Iran last week after his wife and brother-in-law were arrested by the Iranians. Maybe this is the Iranian form of a plea bargain? Exchange stoning for hanging?
Hat Tip NYT blog.
Showing posts with label torture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label torture. Show all posts
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Prison Rape: America's Shame
Why is it OK to laugh about this? Why is it OK to include rape as part of every person's sentence? Is it not cruel and unusual punishment? If we are to build prisons, we MUST take responsibility for the people in them. For their safety.
Maybe there is something I don't understand about this. I have never been in law enforcement or even visited at a prison. But I don't understand why we as a society are so complacent about this form of prison torture. The following is a story about a woman inmate raped by a guard, and a male inmate raped by inmates and infected with AIDS. He wrote a bad check. He is now dying. How is this fair. :-(
http://www.alternet.org/rights/147303/the_brutal_horror_of_prison_rape_as_told_by_its_victims?page=1
The federal Prison Rape Elimination Commission found that more than 60,000 prisoners are the victims of rape and sexual abuse each year. Many inmates are afraid to report such crimes and even those who do are often ignored or dismissed.More here.
Not only hardcore criminals are being victimized. The commission heard from former inmates who made relatively minor mistakes – a political protest gone wrong, a drunken driving arrest or a probation violation – and ended up being brutally raped.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Torture--North Korean Style
I am getting tired of hearing liberal whiners' angst at splashing water in the face of terrorists.
North Korean defector Bang Mi-sun shows her torture scars at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. /Yonhap
For the rest of America- here's a report on real torture.
The Chosun Ilbo reported:
There were gasps in the audience at a press conference by female North Korean defectors in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday when Bang Mi-sun rolled up her black skirt and showed the deep ugly scars in her thighs. The event was part of North Korea Freedom Week.
As soon as she was asked to recount her life in a North Korean concentration camp, Bang (55) stepped on a chair and roll up her skirt. Various parts of her thighs were sunken as if the flesh had been gouged out. She also walks with a limp.
Bang had formerly been an actress with the propaganda squad of the Musan Mine. She fled the North with her children when her husband starved to death in 2002, but soon fell victim to human traffickers. She was arrested by Chinese police and was sent back to the North, where she was tortured. In 2004, she escaped again.
Bang testified that one 21-year-old pregnant woman who had fled to China and been forcibly repatriated was killed when she refused to have an abortion. Forced abortions of half-Chinese children apparently aim to prevent the proliferation of "unclean" stock due to the North's archaic obsession with the national bloodline.
Takekaze says, "That's torture done by a regime that spits on every and all human rights. But wait... it's the Northies, they are commies. Commies are good, right? Bang Mi-sun and others are certainly wingnuts or something, or American spies, right? Or maybe, uh... I don't know... Bush paid Bang Mi-sun to lie?
Who knows what weird "theories" worshippers of mass murderers (also known as leftists) come up with."
Liberals practice moral relativism. American "torture", waterboarding, must be the same as torture practiced in other countries. This is wrong.
North Korean defector Bang Mi-sun shows her torture scars at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. /Yonhap
For the rest of America- here's a report on real torture.
The Chosun Ilbo reported:
There were gasps in the audience at a press conference by female North Korean defectors in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday when Bang Mi-sun rolled up her black skirt and showed the deep ugly scars in her thighs. The event was part of North Korea Freedom Week.
As soon as she was asked to recount her life in a North Korean concentration camp, Bang (55) stepped on a chair and roll up her skirt. Various parts of her thighs were sunken as if the flesh had been gouged out. She also walks with a limp.
Bang had formerly been an actress with the propaganda squad of the Musan Mine. She fled the North with her children when her husband starved to death in 2002, but soon fell victim to human traffickers. She was arrested by Chinese police and was sent back to the North, where she was tortured. In 2004, she escaped again.
Bang testified that one 21-year-old pregnant woman who had fled to China and been forcibly repatriated was killed when she refused to have an abortion. Forced abortions of half-Chinese children apparently aim to prevent the proliferation of "unclean" stock due to the North's archaic obsession with the national bloodline.
Takekaze says, "That's torture done by a regime that spits on every and all human rights. But wait... it's the Northies, they are commies. Commies are good, right? Bang Mi-sun and others are certainly wingnuts or something, or American spies, right? Or maybe, uh... I don't know... Bush paid Bang Mi-sun to lie?
Who knows what weird "theories" worshippers of mass murderers (also known as leftists) come up with."
Liberals practice moral relativism. American "torture", waterboarding, must be the same as torture practiced in other countries. This is wrong.
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