Maybe this is why Democrats do NOT want to punish Iran for supporting terrorism?

Iran: End Juvenile Executions (Human Rights Watch, 27-7-2005)


New York, July 27, 2005) — Iran’s execution of a juvenile offender last week violated international law, Human Rights Watch said today in letters to the president and head of the judiciary.

Death is an inhumane punishment, particularly for someone under eighteen at the time of his crimes. All but a handful of countries forbid such executions, Iran should as well.


Human Rights Watch Letter to Iran's Head of Judiciary
Letter, July 27, 2005



Two youths, aged eighteen and nineteen, were put to death on July 19 after they were found guilty of sexually assaulting a thirteen-year-old boy some fourteen months earlier. One of the youths was seventeen at the time of the offense.

“Death is an inhumane punishment, particularly for someone under eighteen at the time of his crimes,” said Hadi Ghaemi, Iran researcher for Human Rights Watch. “All but a handful of countries forbid such executions. Iran should as well.”

Before the two youths were put to death, each also received 228 lashes for theft, disturbing public order, and consuming alcohol.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights prohibit the imposition of the death penalty for crimes committed before the age of eighteen. These treaties also prohibit the use of torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading punishments. Iran has ratified both treaties.

Iran is thought to have executed at least four other juvenile offenders in 2004, and at least thirty juvenile offenders are on the country’s death row. Human Rights Watch has confirmed the names and ages at the time of offense of five juvenile offenders under sentence of death in Iran: Milad Bakhtiari, 17 years old; Hussein Haghi, 16 years old; Hussein Taranj, 17 years old; Farshad Saeedi, 17 years old; Saeed Khorrami, 16 years old.

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Some would say this is their way of doing things, I disagree. If Iran has ratified the treaty they should fucking well stick to it, which means not killing minors, surely?

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How can you claim these young men were homosexual? Did you not hear Ahmahavingajihad state on national TV there were no homosexuals in Iran? We all know Ahmahavingajihad would never ever lie to the American people. Only George Bush lies to the people.

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For the execution to be one must be danger to the people with no resultings in the effort attempt to make the thought reform. I am think that this Irann is not work out the thoughts reforms in the prison camps for the criminal ones and that the Iranns militia are just making executions.

Execution without first the thought reform for simpler crimes can not be allowed is only a murder of a human being and that is most crime of all in the world. No murder.

If the execution is made to the criminals that are making the sex with childrens, the execution is good for the protect of the childrens. Criminals shot by militia are criminals never again no more.

If the execution is made to the criminal that is just a gay person sexing another gay person a thought reform must first be made with hard labor and no electric shocks or whips. The shocks the whips are to be good used when a thought reform making is fail. failing failurre. If no thought reform trying the execution is murder. If throught refrom is try, with gay person fail effort, can execute for fail.

gay peoples must have to learn things that gay is not to the good of the people is crime against all peoples. Is diseases and the order fail and the harrmony of the peope fail and the gay will come to in the future to make sex with childrens. Gay has must to stop brings only greefs and troubles to all peoples gay is wrong is bad is not to good of all people.

Execution having no first thought reform is to the wrong very very very wrong unless is more serious crime to be use.

Holding the U.S. up to Iran for comparison, are you?

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You know, as much as what you say is so far out that it shouldn't even be funny, I can't help but chuckle due to the horribly mangled sentences. I think this is the first time I've actually read a post that promotes killing innocent people and laughed.

On topic, while I absolutely detest that kind of punishment, it is worth mentioning that it doesn't say they were punished for homosexuality, but for sexual assault. Somewhat different things, but I wouldn't expect you to know.

When Ahmahavingajihad (good name for him) said Iran had no homos I took it to mean ....... Iran has no KNOWN homos ......when they become KNOWN ...... they kill them and they don't have any homos ....until they find the next one.

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A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

I'm politically incorrect and damn well satisfied to be so. Gummer

My intention was not to compare anything but to point out that Iran executes Homos.

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He told the truth. All homosexuals had been executed so to his knowledge none existed!

English I am learning. I will grow. Manners I have from mother and father teach. English you really really learnt already. You know English well yes. Manners none!!! You have not any manners I can see. You laugh? You understand nothing.

We saying reform the thoughts. You saying to rehabilitationing rehabilitate to rehab. I Ong am saying not to kill without trying to reform the thoughts. Why is this wrong?