Although globalization has meant adjustments for everyone on the trade side of the equation, the harmonization that accompanies integrating economies into global frameworks with regards to standard 'universal values' or even respect for minority rights has never really taken place despite hundreds of international treaties and the existance of the UN for example. We are still a collection of clans and tribes. That has not changed.
Jafar Kiani was stoned to death in a small village in the province of Qazvin. He was in his late 40s and had spent the last decade in prison after the adultery conviction.
He is the latest casualty of strict Islamic laws as applied since Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979.
The grim sentence came despite a five-year-old moratorium on stonings that rights groups fear is sometimes ignored.
Activists are warning that his partner -- who reportedly was jailed at the same time, 11 years ago -- could face a similar fate.
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Iran: Official Word Of Stoning Heightens Concern Over Condemned MotherWhatever happened to the IOB anyway? It seems like March 2006 as well as 2007 have come and gone and it is no where to be seen? In the meantime, the Dubai oil exchange is up successfully running, while the Tehran stock exchange has collapsed.
The RTS has offered dual pricing in rubles and US dollars for the past year, but neither contract has even taken one percent of global trading volumes away from existing exchanges, while the ICE all extronic contract has successfully taken a huge chunk out of the NYMEX's open outcry market, forcing them into a merger of sorts with the CME for after-hour electronic trading.
The riddle of IranIran's Supreme Court this month issued a ruling that upholds the idea that people may be killed with impunity if they are deemed to be immoral. The case confirms Iranians' suspicions that some people in Iran can get away with murder: religious fundamentalists, individuals associated with shadowy "pressure groups," or those linked to hard-line clerics.
The court on April 14 confirmed the acquittal of six Iranian militiamen who admitted killing five people in the southeastern city of Kerman in 2002-03. The six men justified the killings by saying the victims were "morally corrupt" according to religious laws, accusing them of selling drugs and engaging in extramarital sex.
The last two victims were a married couple the militiamen killed for supposedly having "illegitimate" relations as lovers, the daily "Etemad" reported on April 15.
The six defendants -- all of whom admitted to the killings -- are reportedly members of the local Basij militia, a nationwide force affiliated with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
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Iran: Supreme Court Upholds Principle Of Morality KillingsI guess successful commodity traders do not want to live under Sharia Law, like a drink afterwork and are not keen on being stoned to death if they have an office fling?
A judiciary spokesman, Alireza Jamshidi, told reporters on Tuesday that a death sentence by stoning had been carried out last week near the city of Takestan, west of Tehran, despite an order by the chief of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi, not to permit such executions.
"The verdict was final, and so it was carried out for the man but not for the woman," the ISNA news agency quoted Jamshidi as saying.
He said the 20 additional executions were for such things as "rape, insulting religious sanctities and laws, and homosexuality." Most executions in Iran are hangings, often in public and at the scenes of the alleged crimes.
The police arrested about 1,000 people in May during a so-called morality crackdown. Jamshidi said 15 more men were being tried on similar charges and could receive death sentences.
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Iran begins executions for adultery and other violations
Of course, none of that means Persian men working or visiting abroad cannot visit Eastern European prostitutes. Or even that the Koran cannot 'justify' temporary marriages for Iranian men?