Iranian of the Day

be-chare

I hope he is at peace.

Homosexuality or Rape???

he was 1yrs old.
They had to deal with him according with his age.
maybe he was fooling around!!!!!

even though I'm not agree with Gay/ Lesbian attitude doesn't mean I have to kill or harass them.

What about Justice?????

DEATH PENALTY-IRAN: Top Campaigner Harassed, Hangings Increase

Judge for yourselves ...

DK

//www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40773

 DEATH PENALTY-IRAN: Top Campaigner Harassed, Hangings Increase
By Kimia Sanati

TEHRAN, Jan 14 (IPS) - Emaddedin Baghi, Iran’s leading anti-death penalty campaigner, is back behind bars in the country’s notorious Evin prison after intense harassment leading to his hospitalisation and concern that he may have suffered a heart attack.

Three days after Christmas, Baghi, 48, was taken ill in his cell. Alarm was raised by a fellow-prisoner with whom he shared a cell in the high-security section of the prison.

Baghi was immediately taken to the prison hospital. Later in the day he suffered a second serious reversal and concerned medical staff ordered his transfer to an outside civilian hospital for further tests and treatment.

In this hospital Baghi was allowed visits by his family before being returned to jail.

Baghi’s illness came after weeks of interrogation by Iran’s intelligence services following his arrest on Oct. 14, according to his family in a Nov. 6 statement made to the Iranian Students News Agency after being allowed their first visit. His arrest was to serve out a one-year sentenced imposed five years ago for allegedly revealing state secrets and disseminating anti-state propaganda during his human rights work.

In letters written from his prison cell to the judicial authorities and minister of intelligence, Baghi had threatened to go on hunger strike unless the authorities halted their "unlawful, psychological torture,’’ according to sources.

Prison interrogation focused on Baghi’s public activities as head of the Society to Defend Prisoners’ Rights. On the night before being taken ill in his cell, there was a commotion in Baghi’s prison section. He later learned that it was in a nearby cell where a student had committed suicide, according to sources.

In recent weeks, scores of students have been arrested and jailed for holding meetings and campaigning against a clamp-down on human rights.

Baghi had also publicly condemned the rights violations and escalation in executions. Shortly before his arrest, he issued an open letter criticising the reformist parties for not speaking up against the wave of hangings justified by hardliners for tightening security.

During 2007, Iran became the world’s second most active state executioner after China. Based on reports in the local press and confirmed by Amnesty International, the number of executions for the year exceeded 300. This is a 70 percent increase on the number of known executions in 2006.

At least six of those executed in 2007 were child offenders, according to Amnesty International. More than 70 of the 250 on death row are believed to be child offenders.

The passing of the United Nations General Assembly’s moratorium on executions on Dec. 18 was ignored by Iran. On the following day, four criminals were executed in the Evin prison, according to press reports.

Since Jan. 1, the gallows of Evin prison have been the busiest in the country. On Jan. 2, there were eight hangings. They included one young woman, Raheleh Zamani, who reportedly killed her husband after learning of his affair.

So far this year, there have been at least 23 executions in different places in the country. There have also been amputations of the hands and feet of five robbers.

Since his return to prison, Baghi has been held in the prison’s general ward, an apparent relaxation in his prison regime in face of concern over his health and protest over his treatment from such bodies as the European Union, Reporters Without Borders and Human Rights Watch.

The authorities have moved fast to head off any public show of solidarity. On Jan. 5, they blocked all domestic access to an internet site set up by Baghi’s friends and supporters, www.freedomforbaghi.blogspot.com.

The present harassment of the human rights activist comes after years of repression.

In 1995, Baghi was suspended from his university teaching post. Blacklisted for any academic or journalistic posts, he was forced to work as a manual labourer to support his family.

In the late 90s, Baghi helped expose the role of the intelligence services in the murder of dissident political activists and five journalists. Two of those murdered were Darioush Forouhar, president of the Iranian National Party (INP) and his wife Parvaneh. The INP was the first party in Iran to call for the abolition of the death penalty.

Fifteen agents were eventually tried and found guilty of the murders. But higher responsible officials have never been brought to justice.

In 2000, Baghi was sentenced to two years in prison for his human rights activities, including the publishing of an article on the death penalty arguing that abolition would not be contrary to Islamic law. This greatly angered the Iranian religious establishment.

In 2005, Baghi founded Iran’s first anti-capital punishment organisation, the Association for the Right to Life. In the same year, he was honoured with one of France’s top human rights awards, the Civil Courage Prize. But a long-enforced travel ban prevented him from receiving it personally.

In an interview with IPS last May, Baghi said the authorities had prevented him from publishing a total of seven books. But he hoped to get around this ban, on his book on the death penalty, by arranging for it to be printed in Afghanistan.

"For many activists, it is only the political prisoners who really matter. Baghi is practically the first person here who defends the rights of ordinary citizens," an activists and journalist told IPS after hearing of Baghi’s collapse in prison.

"When the police cracked down on the so-called "hooligans" some months ago, throwing them into dungeons and executing them, it was Baghi who courageously defended their rights, even though the massive state propaganda machine did succeed in almost erasing all public sympathy for these people.

"Baghi is now paying for standing up for the rights of people almost nobody else wanted to defend."

(END/2008)

No, I am not going to watch.

I wonder where my true emotions are gone, in the real time of catastrophes.

If I had watched him alive, then he would have been able to live again, through the pain and the authenticity of the imagination of anyone knowing his approaching fate.

But now I watch him dead, and somehow in peace. But I only feel like a mute speaker, or a blind witness. Yes, I am a beaten observer, and an image of this failure.

What is the use? Isn’t it like pretending to be; knowing him wasted, knowing our truth: not being there for him...

Sorry, no. I am not going to watch.

Azarin

He was loved by Islam!

He tried to embrace and love Islam, but his love was not returned. He believed Islam was about peace and love. He had no hate. In fact, he thought under Islam all men and women were created equal. He tried to embrace and love Islam, but Islam took every bit of love he had.

He should have loved Islam more. This was his fault. He should have tried harder. He should have been a better muslim. This would have never happened to him if he had love and embraced Islam more!

Homosexuality or Rape?!

Was this young man truly executed for Homosexuality or for committing rape on another boy when he was 13?

We should make a CLEAR distinction between these two cases.

If he was executed for a rape that he committed when he was a minor, then Human Right groups should criticize the Iranian government for putting minors on death row, NOT for executing Homosexuals!!

Unfortunately, the opportunists in the Iranian "opposition" and the warmongers in the U.S administration and media, always present every case of punishment for rape in Iran as a crime against homosexuality. Knowing that such sensitive issues will prepare the Western public opinion for war against Iran.

Please, let's investigate every such cases before buying every story that they feed us.

what else did you expect for

what else did you expect for an islamic theocracy? Sponsoring gay parade-day in Tehran?
This is Islam at its purest...deal with it.

TRANSLATION OF FRENCH TEXT

TRANSLATION: The young Iranian Makwan Molouzadeh, executed on December 5, 2007, was filmed on his death bed by those close to him. The video was sent to the Magazine "Tetu" to denounce the repression of sexual minorities in Iran.

Just a note.............Justice and revenge

can not co-exist together. You either have one or the other.

Also, those you mentioned on this website had nothing to do with this young man's death or that of many others in Iran. You need to stop dragging anyone just to satisfy your thirst for blood shed or you are not better than those you despise.

Mullahs and Islamist will one day pay for this...

You can be as sure as the sunrise that one day Mullahs, their regime, and their cronies including those on this site (Daniel, Soraya, Xerxes...etc) will pay for these crimes. For every shark, there is a big shark out there. In historical terms, these sort of actions on the part of any government have latent consequences associated with them. For every person killed, Islam is more and more marginilized, and erroded. I am completely sure that Justice, and revenge will both be coming....

Oh, Haji...

They're ALL important and of COURSE it's real...the 3,000 African children who die each day are important because each ONE is real... and this poor young man is real too....don't you feel sorry for him?  come on, Haj... Anyway if it's Kermanshah they must be speaking Kurdish.

this move made by actor's also what langouge they are speacking?

//hajiagha.tripod.com
they not speacking Iranian, are you have any photo of over 1.000.000 Iraqi child killed in war by american I don't fucking care ,a gay otr drug dealers excuted in Iran when Bush send 100 Iraqi family to die by his stupid war, why you thinks life of this guy is more immportant as Iraqi children and african hunger 3,000 die every day  

"Our Crocodile Tears"

In her blog, Mitra Kahalatbari the reporter of Etemaad-Meli newspaper who has been following Makwan's case responded to the letter by asking: if Makwan was such an experienced villain "why did the population of town of Paveh attended his funeral to the extent that the whole town was nearly closed? Isn't it strange that people would attend the funeral of a local vilain while they should have been pleased to hear of the news of his execution?"

She further asked:" Why are you mixing things up? What we are asking is that you comply with what you have agreed to (ICCPR and CRC) which is about not executing juvenille offenders under 18. That does not mean that you wait untill a 15 year old grows to be 20 and then execute him!". She also questioned the validity of the local judiciary's claim that they had no order from Iran's head of judiciary to halt the execution.  (//scenews.blog.com/2436640/) Makwan was sentenced to death for alleged homosexuality at the age of 13. The claimants later had confessed that they had lied about the claim and the court provided no other basis for their guilty verdict.
The execution of Makwan Moloudzadeh was strongly condemned by UN human rights commissioner and worldwide.

Kouroush,

my reference to Kaveh was about him speaking out against aesthetic plastic surgery of female genitalia and telling women here they were more than their sex organs.  He's a true feminist and it's NOT so off-topic on this thread BECAUSE, although ALL struggles for freedom are one struggle, the struggle for freedom of WOMEN and GAYS is particularly ONE FIGHT. It is the SAME struggle against destructive, obsolete patriarchal norms...

which brings us back to you. Granted, you're no Colonel H., but I've seen you call people "kooni" in derogatory ways.  It's just a question of degree Kouroush.  ANY homophobia is wrong.  Whether using terms for homosexuality as an insult to someone who probably isn't, or insulting someone who is..As I have said to you previously, the Final Solution of the European Jews by the Nazis was a slow gradual process.  It started with just INSULTS to make Jews seem inferior, then it was the yellow stars on clothing, prohibitions on where people could work and whom they could marry, and it escalated progressively. The taking away of a human life is nothing more than the taking away of the final CIVIL RIGHT--the right to exist. And of course a similar process happened with gays, but I'm not as versed in the exact mechanisms...nonetheless...

So if you REALLY hate this dangerous, obsolete, sick, patriarchal regime that killed that poor beautiful boy, I STRONGLY suggest that you expunge ALL derogatory comments regarding homosexuals from your discourse, now and forever. 

And I have also said that after the Holocaust, five different categories of guilt were established because it's complex how people get manipulated into these power structures...and...also, they are NOT ISLAMIC THUGS. They are ISLAMACIST THUGS. and Shah Ismail and etc, etc, etc, ad infinitum....

what am I, a conch shell?  No matter how much sense I make and  how carefully I tell you, and no matter how intelligent you are and I am together, I explain and explain, and it's like...you put me to your ear and all you hear is the sound of the sea...your own sea...

Well hell if you can't stop the Islam bashing, maybe work on not using words for gay as insults..at least it's a start..

Best,
Robin

Dido, Kaveh!!! Every so

Dido, Kaveh!!!
Every so called Iranian who has supported, supports and will support the IRI have blood on thier hands and the hell of a karma which will be transmitted to their next genertions. I hope the innocents won't burn with these A..H..
I can't wait to see all those Iranians who have invested their money in IRI and all of a sudden have become vatanparast to burn in hell along with every single penny that they have in Iran.

I will see that and that is near.......

This is Islam!

Rosie quit this labia majora/minor poetry of yours! This ain't no koss monolouge!

I suppose the Nazis should have been hugged more if the World wanted them to stop slaughtering innocent people!

Free hugs for Nazis, Free hugs for Islamic thugs!  You try hugging the pasdars/hizbollahees to prevent them from killing! Some people are evil and must die - it is simple! Just like people who rape and kill children - there is no cure!

With all due respect, Mr. Ghafffari,

that type of discourse doesn't seem helpful to me.  Islam is whatever any practitioner makes of it and when you talk about murdering the Prophet you POLARIZE people who would normally be on your side, because you make them afraid you will take away their religion.  And for better or for worse, where we stand today, religion runs DEEP in the veins of most ordinary people...so....it's better to steer clear of that kind of discourse, it will boomerang on you. 

There are Mullahs in Iran who have been 30 years under house arrest for their opposition to velayate faqi and the IRI.  The greater jihad as spiritual Muslims interpret it is no different from other religious forms of "enlightenment"--it's about temperance, love, self-control....why POLARIZE and TERRIFY these people just because they choose, or rather were born into, an Islamic framework for their deep-seated spiritual yearnings.  Make allies with them.  Don't drive them into the arms of totalitarians,  Why?  What is the gain?

I'm on tear, I'm

I'm on tear, I'm speechless.i can't believe it, what a handsome man. Why? for what crime? Shame on you Mullah, and shame on people who support this regime..A day will arrive soon when all mullah standing over their own sons and daughters dead body. Marg bar Regimesh Islami..

Kaveh, Alborzi...

A;borzi, I find it hard to believe you had NO gays in Alborz since the estimate is that 10% of ANY population is gay REGARDLESS of culture, and it's found in the animal kingdom, too.  However, it's indeed possible that homosexual ACTS became more prevalent under the Mullahs due to the repression of male-female relationships.....nevertheless, "NO gays in Alboorz.....".....you just weren't looking in the right places...

 Kaveh....read my post under Reza Shah by the pool at the bottom please if you have a chance, and also my article on Leila which is now on page 2...
Thanks, Robin

And PS.....remember, no voluntary labial  surgery...spread the word....   :D (private joke people, blast from the past...)

Justice, Islamic Style

The Iranian regime has forgotten, that Mohammad himself was a pedophile (marrying a 9 year old). Perhaps some one should have murdered him then. This is the Islamic justice. Until this regime is in place, we will see more of these tragic events.

yet another

badge of honor for sewer republic.

To: America, Europe and the rest of "free world"

Some of you are as guilty as these religious barbarians with your silence when your governments assisted this barbaric non-Iranian Islamic regime to rule over Iranians in 1979. The entire free world had well experienced theocracy and its totalitarian religious savagery and darkness. But decided to remain silent and indeed your governments have supported them.

Against USSR communist, your government implanted these thugs in Iran (f%&*ing Carter). For arm sales and oil, your government repressed our Iranian souls for last thirty years. Some of you for being silent about crimes against Iranians should know that you are no better than these savages. They wear differently, they speak differently, they kill differently, however, their natures are the same as yours. This is what your government spewed out and you bought it: “It is in our national interest”!

To all freedom lovers and seekers in all over the world: Support us Iranians to free our country and in establishing democracy and honoring human rights in Iran. Iran needs your help not your bombs. Iran needs help from the entire civilized PEOPLE.

Non Human act

bunch of savages

Give me a liberal iranian party

which does not care about who you fuck, what you say, what you eat, how you dress, what gender you have, what religion you have, which does not support corrupt would be kings and puppets, which does not engulf itself in marxist litterature and which stands for one hundred percent azadi. I would have given my life for such a movement.

They are all female

Its an interesting observation that all those who condemn it are all of female persuasion. Just an observation mind you. We did not have any gays at Alborz and it was not due to killing, actually it seems mullahs have made it more common.

Guilty

Each and every one of you who support this regime (especially those of you who think "Marg bar Amrika" while living comfortably in the United States), are guilty as hell.

All of you have blood on your hands. The blood of this boy and that of every other man, woman and child killed in the name of the so-called Islamic Republic of Iran.

TRANSLATION OF FRENCH TEXT and COMMENT

TRANSLATION:  The young Iranian Makwan Molouzadeh, executed on December 5, 2007, was filmed on his death bed by those close to him. The video was sent to the Magazine "Tetu" to denounce the repression of sexual minorities in Iran.

COMMENT: I've noticed some gay-bashing here lately. I won't tolerate it, I'm telling you. I'll fight you tooth and nail. You CANNOT be against the forced enslavement of women in Iran and be FOR ANY anti-gay legislation, from the mildest, as Khatami preferred, to these barbities we now see. THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM OF ALL PEOPLE IS THE SAME STRUGGLE, and ESPECIALLY THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WOMEN'S AND GAYS' STRUGGLES. NONE WHATSOEVER. It's all in your head.....

God damn them for what they do..no...forgive them, Motherfather, they know not what they do.. if only freedom could sing its song...god help us all...

Rosie

So tragic and unnecessary...............

When will all the madness end? They had no right to take this young man's life away based on his sexual preference.  Just not right at all.

No Homosexuals in Iran

Antarynejad stands corrected, "there are no homosexuals in Iran". Moslems kill whatever and whenever they wish ... period.

So young and so dead ... Islam killed his spirit first and islamic goons killed his body next.