Honzo May 22nd, 2005

An image has been haunting me the last few days. It’s not even an image. It’s a cartoon. A simple cartoon keeps reappearing in my mind the words of the story going over in my head.

I can’t believe it. I can’t imagine it. They hung the little girl. Only alive for sixteen years, and they murdered her.

What was her crime?

After her execution Rezai (the judge) said her punishment was not execution but he had her executed for her “sharp tongue”.

Did you get that? Whatever she was originally on trial for (I don’t
know what it was) did not merit execution. What did merit execution was
her “Sharp Tongue.” She talked back… and was hung in public for it!

Who does that? (Iranian Judge Haji Rezaii). What department of government does that? (Justice Department of Neka, Iran) What court upholds such a decision? (The mullahs’ Supreme Court) What government allows that? (The Islamic Republic of Iran)

It is very hard not to fill this section up with obsenites directed towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. I won’t though.

Update: She was on trial (sorry, that is
the word they use for it over there) for “acts incompatible with
chastity” - I don’t know what that means - could have been any thing
from showing too much of the face, talking to a male, not looking down,
to being a prostitute. I don’t know. In a bitterly funny side bit, she
reportedly started taking off her clothes to frustrate the judge at her
“trial”

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Oh man, the more I dig into this the upset I am getting.

Her name was:

Ateqeh Sahaleh

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