Women and Children Bear the Brunt of Iran's Grim Public Executions by Phyllis Chesler Breitbart June 24, 2014 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1328/women-and-children-bear-the-brunt-of-iran-grim Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. They rape and torture women in Iran: First, at home, as a family matter; then in prison, as a state matter. They publicly execute women for daring to kill their attackers in self-defense. It is public in order to terrify and sicken others, shame them, make them know that they are really, truly helpless, have them understand that when the authorities come for them, no one will intervene on their behalf. A public execution is a fine way to keep a civilian population permanently cowed. And yet, there are things that will not allow one to go on, brutalities on a daily basis that are, perhaps, even more sickening than a public execution. Rayhana Jabbari has been sentenced to hang for the crime of killing the man who was attempting to rape her. She has already been in jail for seven years. Even the United Nations has called for a "fair trial." Her execution was postponed but she remains in danger of being hung at any moment. » CONTINUE READING Related Topics:  Islam, Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid

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