{"id":96,"date":"2004-08-23T11:05:30","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T15:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=96"},"modified":"2004-08-26T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2004-08-26T14:59:09","slug":"loud-mouthed-women-can-be-executed-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Loud-mouthed women can be executed in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the Bush Administration (and to be fair, presidential administrations that long preceeded the current one)  emphasizes the fundamental human rights violations that plagued pre-invasion Iraq,  it continues to play its double-standard in the region by ignoring similar abuses in other countries&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranfocus.com\/modules\/news\/article.php?storyid=80\">like, Iran<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Sunday, August 15, a 16-year-old girl in the town of Neka, northern Iran, was executed. Ateqeh Sahaleh was hanged in public on Simetry Street off Rah Ahan Street at the city center.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence was issued by the head of Neka&#8217;s Justice Department and subsequently upheld by the mullahs&#8217; Supreme Court and carried out with the approval of Judiciary Chief Mahmoud Shahroudi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What was the crime she committed?  Who knows?  The article certainly doesn&#8217;t say&#8230; because it doesn&#8217;t matter.  According the to the judge on the case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The judge personally pursued Ateqeh&#8217;s death sentence, beyond all normal procedures and finally gained the approval of the Supreme Court. After her execution Rezai said her punishment was not execution but he had her executed for her &#8220;sharp tongue&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No illusions of civil rights in Iran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}