Saturday, 9 March 2019

Iran: Child Executions, Amputations, Floggings

Iran: Child Executions, Amputations, Floggings

by Majid Rafizadeh  •  March 8, 2019 at 5:00 am
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  • Europe ravenously throw sanctions on a country that has been home to Jews for more than three thousand years, yet tries to find ways to keep on doing business with a country such as Iran that is not only trying to establish its hegemony throughout the Middle East, but is also the serial violator of just about every human right imaginable. The only conclusion one can come to is that Europe would evidently still like to kill the Jews and is happy to support those wishing to kill them.
  • "In February [2018], Canadian Iranian academic and environmental activist Kavous Seyyed Emami died in Evin prison following his arbitrary arrest two weeks earlier. Authorities claimed he committed suicide and refused to release his body unless his family agreed to an immediate burial without an independent autopsy." — Amnesty International.
  • The list of unspeakable human rights violations committed by Iran's regime is lengthy; however, by far the most disturbing seems the cruelty enacted against children.
  • Now is the time for the EU to halt its appeasement policy with a regime that does not hesitate to flog people -- publicly, as a message to others -- torture any citizen they choose to target, enact cruel punishments such as amputation without a fair trial, and execute children just starting their lives. These are acts that should be condemned -- not condoned through the pursuit of appeasement policies, moral depravity and raw greed.
Why does the European Union continue to pursue appeasement policies with Iran's regime, which has an excruciating human rights record? According to Amnesty International, in Iran, "Girls as young as nine can be sentenced to execution; for boys it's 15. At least 73 young offenders were executed between 2005 and 2015." (Image source: iStock)
According to a report published by Amnesty International on February 26, the human rights situation in Iran has "severely deteriorated". Why then does the European Union continue to pursue appeasement policies with a regime that has an excruciating human rights record? Sadly, Europe -- in spite its endless moral preening and self-righteousness -- seems to have become the world most immoral player -- if it was not already. The European Union, for instance, unjustly singles out for bullying the only liberal, democratic, human-rights-abiding country in the Middle East: Israel. Not Turkey for occupying Northern Cyprus, China for obliterating Tibet, or Pakistan for occupying Kashmir. Europe and the corrupt United Nations do not lay a glove on the real perpetrators of crimes against humanity such as China, Cuba, Russia, Turkey, North Korea, Nigeria or Sudan, to name just a few.

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