"Group cleared over Iran murders
Iran's Supreme Court has acquitted a group of men charged over a series of gruesome killings in 2002, according to lawyers for the victims' families.
The vigilantes were not guilty because their victims were involved in un-Islamic activities, the court found.
The killers said they believed Islam let them spill the blood of anyone engaged in illicit activities if they issued two warnings to the victims.
The serial killings took place in 2002 in the south-eastern city of Kerman.
'Morally corrupt'
The case raises serious questions about vigilantes in Iran taking justice into their own hands and undermining the rule of law.
Up to 18 people were killed in just one year, but only five of the murders were tried in court.
According to their confessions, the killers put some of their victims in pits and stoned them to death. Others were suffocated. One man was even buried alive while others had their bodies dumped in the desert to be eaten by wild animals.
The accused, who were all members of an Islamic paramilitary force, told the court their understanding of the teachings of one Islamic cleric allowed them to kill immoral people if they had ignored two warnings to stop their bad behaviour.
But there was no judicial process to determine the guilt of the victims in these cases.
The group even killed a young couple they thought were involved in sex outside marriage, but media reports say the couple were either married or engaged to be married.
Lawyers for the victims' families say the Supreme Court has five times overturned the verdict of a lower court that found all the men guilty of murder.
Now the Supreme Court is reported to have acquitted all the killers of the charge of murder on the grounds that their victims were all morally corrupt.
Some of the group may, however, face prison sentences or have to pay financial compensation to their victims' families. "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6557679.stm
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Wat klaag je nu? Alles is keurig geregeld volgens de onfeilbare wetten van GOD HIMSELF!(extract) marc aka controle schreef:"Group cleared over Iran murders
Iran's Supreme Court has acquitted a group of men charged over a series of gruesome killings in 2002, according to lawyers for the victims' families.
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'Morally corrupt'
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According to their confessions, the killers put some of their victims in pits and stoned them to death. Others were suffocated. One man was even buried alive while others had their bodies dumped in the desert to be eaten by wild animals.
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Zie o.a.:
http://www.homa.org/Processing/ImagePro ... 2065691432Article 116 of Penal laws in the Islamic Republic on stoning, says that the stones used in stoning should neither be big as to kill the convict at the first or second blow, nor as small as a pebble.
Dus ze kunnen alleen nog 'bestraft' worden als ze niet de juiste steen gebruikt hebben.
Geweldig toch!...die 'onfeilbare' wetten van God!
Sommige mensen, die de Goddelijke ondoorgrondelijkheid niet snappen, kunnen zo muggenziften over onbelangrijke details. Dat stelletje was gewoon schuldig! Sex voor het huwelijk! Hoe durven ze! Bah, bah, bah!!!
Ze hebben een terechte straf gekregen van hun liefhebbende God!
Weet jij nu nog steeds niet dat Islam vrede is!!!
MvG, Wim.
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Oei, gevoelige snaar geraakt. Why are you so upset?Gralgrathor schreef:Yes.
Mooi artikel.
En? Doelstelling? Vraagstelling? Stelling?
MAN, WHAT IS IT YOU WANT!?
Ugh.
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