Sep. 03, 2007 - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour takes a front row seat to hear Mahmoud blab on about human rights in Iran.
Here's another shot from EYE on the UN:
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, (orange scarf) listens closely from the front row to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran.
The very next day... After Mahmoud blathered on at the human rights meeting Iran hanged four more men in public in the southern province of Fars.
Anne Bayefsky adds this on the human rights experts at the meeting in Tehran:
While Arbour was hobnobbing with anti-semites, butchers and anti-democratic forces from around the world, Iranians were being prepared for public hangings. Arbour was reported by the Islamic Republic News Agency as having "expressed pleasure with being at the NAM meeting and described Iran's representation office in the UN in Geneva as "very good."" In an unusual move, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has so far neglected to put her official statement on their website.And... It looks like the US Senate decided to fund the UN Human Rights Council after all.
The day after Arbour left Iran the government felt sufficiently buoyed by their UN stamp of approval, that they executed 21 prisoners. People are executed in Iran for charges like "enmity against God" or "being corrupt on earth."
If you don't mind me saying so, I have often wondered what the prisoners have done to be hanged. I think Iran hangs students they believe are anarchists, but are any of these hangings legit criminals? The U.S. has a death penalty.
ReplyDeleteJust wondering.....I'd hate to justify them if there were pedophiles or murderers.
The U.N. "lady" is wearing her slave scarf. So much for human rights.
ReplyDeleteamy: pedophili is legal in Iran. The age of marriage for girls is 9 and for boy is 14.
ReplyDeleteMost of these hangings are trumped up charges to exterminate political dissidents and lately as a way to combat poverty and drug addiction.
Consider the words of Anne Bayefsky of Eye On The UN ...
ReplyDeleteUN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, traveled to Iran this week to take a front row seat and listen attentively to Holocaust-denier Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The occasion was billed as a human rights meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), currently chaired by Cuba.
While Arbour was hobnobbing with anti-semites, butchers and anti-democratic forces from around the world, Iranians were being prepared for public hangings ( there is more )
Serendip, I understand Iran has some (in my opinion) sickening moral ethics... like temporary marriages as a way of skirting religous principle/law and allowing young guys to get some without it being a sin (I'm sure God looks kindly on that, but how they explain divorce in the moral realm is crapped out) so it wouldn't surprise me that Iran allows for pedophilia.
ReplyDeleteMy only caution is that we not throw the baby out with the bathwater to label something it isn't. It is a human rights violation to execute political dissidents, etc., but I have no idea what the ratio is of human rights abuse to legitimate death penalties.
I in no way endorse public hangings but am in the U.S. in favor of the death penalty. I'd like to see some of the honor killers put to death in public hangings.
Amy, given the egregious jihadist rhetoric of the current clowns-in-charge in Teheran, "throwing the baby out with the bath water" is the least of your worries.
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