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His handsome face was seen around the world. The photograph, used on the front of the Economist magazine, showed Ahmad Batebi, his hands holding the bloodstained T-shirt of a fellow student beaten by paramilitaries. His look of indignation captured the mood of young Iranians demonstrating for democracy in the summer of 1999.
Just holding that shirt earned Batebi a 15-year prison sentence for endangering national security, served in the notorious Evin prison in north Tehran.
In the first three months of his imprisonment, Batebi wrote an open letter to the authorities describing how interrogators held his head in a drain full of excrement and beat him on the testicles. His trial lasted for just three minutes, with the Economist cover cited as evidence that he had jeopardised the reputation of the Islamic republic. His case illustrates how Iran's clerical establishment continues to rule through repression and fear. Dozens of other political prisoners languish in jails across the country. Human rights monitors say no one knows precisely how many because some families choose to suffer in silence.
One of his son's cellmates, Arzhang Davoudi, 49, was detained after meeting Batebi during his November leave.
Davoudi, speaking on a prison telephone last week, told The Observer he was beaten severely during his first days in detention, but had refused to apologise for his political activities or writings.
'I can't hear in one ear now because of the beatings and I have trouble seeing out of my left eye,' said Davoudi. 'I don't regret anything and I didn't confess to anything. I don't co-operate at all... We want the world to know all the brutality that is going on in Iran, especially against intellectuals.'
Iran to hang teenage girl attacked by rapists
Sat. 07 Jan 2006
Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.
The state-run daily Etemaad reported on Saturday that 18-year-old Nazanin confessed to stabbing one of three men who had attacked the pair along with their boyfriends while they were spending some time in a park west of the Iranian capital in March 2005.
Nazanin, who was 17 years old at the time of the incident, said that after the three men started to throw stones at them, the two girls’ boyfriends quickly escaped on their motorbikes leaving the pair helpless.
She described how the three men pushed her and her 16-year-old niece Somayeh onto the ground and tried to rape them, and said that she took out a knife from her pocket and stabbed one of the men in the hand.
As the girls tried to escape, the men once again attacked them, and at this point, Nazanin said, she stabbed one of the men in the chest. The teenage girl, however, broke down in tears in court as she explained that she had no intention of killing the man but was merely defending herself and her younger niece from rape, the report said.
The court, however, issued on Tuesday a sentence for Nazanin to be hanged to death.
Last week, a court in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, sentenced Delara Darabi to death by hanging charged with murder when she was 17 years old. Darabi has denied the charges.
In August 2004, Iran’s Islamic penal system sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, to death after a sham trial, in which she was accused of committing “acts incompatible with chastity”.
The teenage victim had no access to a lawyer at any stage and efforts by her family to retain one were to no avail. Atefeh personally defended herself and told the religious judge that he should punish those who force women into adultery, not the victims. She was eventually hanged in public in the northern town of Neka.
Amnesty International said that the sentences were in breach of Iran’s obligations under international human rights law.
It called on Iran to suspend the execution sentence of 18-year-old Nazanin who was accused of stabbing to death one of three men who attempted to rape her and her 16-year-old niece in a park in Karaj in March 2005. She was seventeen at the time.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An Iranian of the Bahai faith has died in his jail cell of unknown causes, 10 years after being imprisoned by Tehran for abandoning Islam, the Bahai International Community said on Monday.
Zabihollah Mahrami, 59, had been sentenced to death by Iran's Revolutionary Court in January 1996, but the sentence was later commuted to life in prison following an international outcry.
Nee hoor Els,... er bestaan meerdere bedevaatsoorden voor Moslim lieden.
Daar heeft Mohammed duidelijk gebruik (lees mis-bruik, want er woedde daar een heuse oorlog) van gemaakt.
Die rituelen die de Moslims daar uitvoeren, slaan echter elke verbeelding te pletter, daar deze zo intens "bijgelovig" zijn geworden, wat dus met de dood soms bekocht moet worden.
Vreemd genoeg is dat dus "voorspeld" ... groet Roy
Ja? Spannend... wie heeft dit voorspeld?
Alleen al het feit dat bedevaartsoorden en kerken/moskeeën vroeger centraal stonden in het verspreiden van de godsdiensten vind ik al zo fascinerend.
Now, the reason this is interesting to us is that when they were referring to God, they invariably used ACHAD, united one. "Sh'mal, Israel, adonai elohanu adonai ACHAD," "Hear, O Israel, the Lord, thy God, the Lord is ONE." So to the Israelites, God was a one made up of many...
Een quote van mijn eigen , en las bij Google volgende, waarvan ik de pagina niet kan vinden >>>De naam AKKA/ACCA werd ontleend aan de Godin van AKKAD, ook wel De Oude Vrouw, De Grootmoeder of De Vroedvrouw, toen bekend als de "Water-trekster, Zij die de Goden geboren liet worden uit de Oudste Diepten", en een vrouwelijk equivalent voor de latere Aquarius, Waterman. ( overigens betekent AKKAD thans de "Een/Eerste/Eerst-opkomende" )
Ook in Midden-Amerika kende men deze vorm en heette de ACAT/AKNA, vermoedelijk door de Akkadiërs meegenomen en vermengd met de daar heersende Indiaanse tradities.
Godinnenlijst: beschrijvingen van godinnen uit de hele wereld, a.
... De overeenkomst met de Romeinse Acca Larentia en de Vestaalse maagden is evident ...
in de Syrische steden Palmyra en Petra, en in het zuid-Arabische Mekka en Medina...
Mekka wordt ook gekend als Macca, met een symbolische etymologie van M-ACCA. M is het algemeen symbolisch teken van water, de golvende lijn, zowel in Sanskriet en Hindoes, als oa. het Hebreeuwse "mem". MA stond voor het goddelijke moederschap, de cosmische geboorte, en de vrouwelijke wijsheid in vele talen over de wereld (moeder dus).
Overigens is Mekka de énige stad die een religie-ritueel op die manier doet plaats vinden over de gehele wereld, met de aandacht van élke gelovige gericht naar dit middelpunt (over de hele wereld dus).
Én het mysterie van de Ka'Aba, de "Zwarte Steen", die letterlijk uit de Hemel kwam vallen.
Mij intrigeren al deze onderlinge verbanden, doch wel het meeste daar de Javaanse Zuidzee Godin eveneens de naam LARA kent, dat "ziek" betekent, doch meer betreffende de maandelijkse cyclus van de vrouw.
Zij wordt verstoten, omdat zij bv. niet wil huwen en "maagd" blijft (vroeger gelinkt met de Maan). Daardoor wordt zij met magie bewerkt, ondergaat dit gelaten, en zoekt vertwijfeld het Zuiden op... alwaar de legende mythisch wordt, gekroond tot de Vorstin der Zuiderzee, Heerseres over Geesten, Demonen en alle Creaturen uit de Onderwereld ... vereerd tot de dag van vandaag. Herkennen jullie enig erband?
Grappig is wel dat de wereld groter was dan ze toen dachten, en bovendien rond, zodat het nogal een gedoe is om te weten hoe je richting Mekka moet kijken als je aan de andere kant van de aardbol zit.
Wat voor verband zoek je precies, Roy?
Wel vreemd dat 'Loro' dan iets als 'maagd' zou betekenen. Ik ging ervan uit dat het hetzelfde woord was, met een andere uitspraak.
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