"One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted." Oscar Wilde
Iran regime hangs 70-year-old man after 14 years of imprisonment
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Iran: Medieval, barbaric punishments |
On Thursday, the Iranian regime’s henchmen hanged a group of nine men including a 70-year-old who had been held in prison for the past fourteen years, allegedly for drug-related offences.
The prisoners were all hanged in the main prison in the city of Bandar Abbas in the southern province of Hormozgan.
The mullahs’ judiciary in the southern province of Hormozgan confirmed the execution of the nine prisoners but did not identify them.
According to the information received, Heydar Mardani, 70, was executed as he was serving his 14th year of imprisonment.
The other victims are: Hossein AliKhah, Ahmad Qurashi, Farhad Kianian, Mohamad Ahmadi, Mehrdad Azmand, Qassem Maziar, Heydar Moridani and Mohamad Naroui. The youngest victim was 25 years old.
In recent days there has been a sharp increase in the number of executions taking place in Iran. In a seven day period between 12 to 18 April at least 81 prisoners were hanged in several prisons, meaning 12 executions per day.
The sharp increase in the wave of executions after an agreement was reached on the framework of a nuclear deal is a clear indication of the mullahs’ desperate need to create an atmosphere of fear in society in order to confront the explosive situation.
Inmates in prisons in the city of Karaj staged protests on April 12 following the transfer of their cellmates to solitary confinement in preparation for carrying out the criminal execution sentences. Protesting prisoner chanted: “We shall not let you kill us.” Similarly, families of the prisoners on the verge of execution also gathered in front of the prisons and shouted: “We shall not let you execute them.”
The Iranian Resistance has called on brave Iranian youths to express their solidarity with prisoners and the families of those executed, and urged them to protest against these brutal killings in the country.
Source: NCRI, April 24, 2015
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Tags : Drug trafficking, Iran, Islamic Law, sharia
Location Iran
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Mary Jane Veloso set to be executed on Tuesday, April 28 – sister
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Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso |
Mary Jane Veloso, who has been sentenced to death in Indonesia over a drug case, will face the firing squad on April 28, Tuesday, her sister said on Saturday.
According to a radio DZBB report, the 30-year-old mother told her sister Marites Veloso-Laurente over the phone that the Attorney General's Office of Indonesia confirmed the date of her execution on Saturday.
However, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) spokesperson Charles Jose said the Philippine Embassy in Indonesia has yet to receive a notice for Veloso's execution.
"I just spoke to our ambassador to Indonesia and she confirmed that the Embassy has not received the 72-hour notice," Jose told GMA News Online in a text message.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario has previously said Veloso cannot be executed until the Philippines receives an official notification from Indonesia. Protocol dictates that the notice must be given to the convicted person and their respective embassies in advance.
In an earlier report, Tony Spontana, AGO spokesperson, said the order for the execution of Veloso and nine other convicts with drug-related charges was dated April 23, a full day before its release on Friday.
Veloso's family received a copy of the order when they visited her at the prison island of Nusakambangan on Saturday. The order did not specify the date of her execution.
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Source: GMA News, April 25, 2015
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Bali duo given final notice
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Nusakambangan Island, where executions are carried out in Indonesia |
Jakarta: Bali nine organisers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran may have just three days left to live after they were officially given 72 hours notification of their executions on Saturday.
However Attorney-General spokesman Tony Spontana said no date had been set and they may have longer.
He said under Indonesian law the earliest a prisoner can be executed once they receive official notification is in 72 hours time.
The Attorney-General's office has indicated it is waiting on Monday's Supreme Court decision on Indonesian marijuana trafficker Zainal Abidin before setting a date.
A French man on death row in Indonesia has won a temporary reprieve from the firing squad but any hope for the nine others has disappeared.
Indonesian Foreign Ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir told Fairfax Media the French Embassy was not among those summoned to discuss the imminent executions because Serge Atlaoui still had a legal case before the Administrative Court. [Mr. Atlaoui's wife, Sabine, confirmed at 5:00 am GMT this morning that her husband had not been transferred to an isolation cell. She also indicated that she hadn't received ANY official confirmation that he had been removed from the execution list. - DPN]
However the execution of the remaining nine drug felons, including Sukumaran and Chan, is likely to occur within days.
Australian, Brazilian, Philippine and Nigerian consul staff met in Cilacap - the town near death island - at 12pm Jakarta time on Saturday to be briefed on the grim logistics.
In yet another ominous portent, all of the felons except Atlaoui have been transferred to isolation cells in the high security Besi prison on Nusakambangan ahead of the executions.
The Indonesian man, Zainal Abidin's death already seems a fait accompli despite Monday's court ruling, with his family contacted by authorities on Friday to ask where and how they wanted his body buried.
"It really upsets the family. It's as if they already know the outcome, that it's going to get rejected," said Abidin's lawyer Ade Yuliawan.
The Attorney-General's Office has repeatedly said it would wait for all legal processes to be exhausted because it wanted to execute the 10 drug felons simultaneously.
Several prisoners besides Atlaoui have ongoing legal processes, including the Australians, Filipina maid Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, and Brazilian Rodrigo Gularte, who is schizophrenic.
But the Indonesian government insists they have no remaining channels of appeal.
"We only sent notification to embassies whose nationals have exhausted their legal avenues," Mr Arrmanatha said.
Lawyers for Veloso on Friday lodged a request for a second judicial review on the grounds she was "primarily a human trafficking victim in the first place, and therefore, must be protected".
Filipina death row inmate Mary Jane Veloso's two young sons beg Indonesian president's son to help save their mother from the firing squad. A psychological time bomb for these kids. Another tragedy in the making.
Her Indonesia lawyer Ismail Muhammad, who visited Veloso on the island on Saturday with her two young sons and other family members, said they didn't yet know whether it would be accepted by the Supreme Court.
But the Foreign Ministry's Mr Arrmanatha said Indonesian law stated there could only be one judicial review.
Lawyers for the Australians are challenging the clemency laws in the Constitutional Court and the Judicial Commission is investigating allegations the judges who sentenced Chan and Sukumaran to death offered bribes for lighter sentences.
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Serge Atlaoui and his wife |
However, any ruling made on the country's clemency laws by the Constitutional Court would not be retrospective and the Attorney-General has made it clear the case would not prevent the executions from proceeding.
Atlaoui, a welder, was arrested near Jakarta in 2005 in a secret laboratory producing ecstasy.
He has always maintained he was innocent of drug charges and was simply installing equipment in what he thought was an acrylics factory.
His lawyers lodged an appeal in the Administrative Court on April 23 and are waiting for a date.
A spokeswoman said Atlaui's wife, Sabine, had not been informed that he had been taken off the list for this batch of executions.
A source close to his case said it would be a violation of the law if Atlaoui was executed before six others who were arrested at the acrylics factory at the same and had also been sentenced to death.
"According to the law, people who are sentenced to death in one case must be executed together," she said.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald, Jewel Topsfield, April 25, 2015
