EU Supported Regime Flogs 14yr old To Death

[sarasara]

EU Supported Regime Flogs 14yr old Boy To Death

Boy 'Flogged to Death' by Para-Military Police

iranfocus.com
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/ne...php?storyid=849

Tehran -- New information has come to light over the sudden death of a 14-year-old schoolboy in western Iran, who died after being flogged for “eating in public” during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan.

Kaveh Habibi-Nejad died Nov. 12 and was buried in the cemetery of the Kurdish city of Sanadaj on Nov. 13, according to his death certificate.

The new information is the official report by the coroner’s office in Sanandaj. The report states that the boy died “as a result of brain hemorrhage, after the back of his skull was fractured by a blow from a hard object”.

Eye-witnesses had previously reported that Kaveh lost consciousness while being flogged by agents of Law Enforcement Forces, Iran’s paramilitary police force. They said they believed he died because “the metal cable being used to flog him hit his head”.

Flogging young men and teenagers in public for a range of offenses such as drinking alcohol or eating in public during the fasting season is common in Iranian cities.

Eye-witnesses said that before Kaveh was flogged, his punishment was read out by the Chief of Police who announced that Kaveh was to receive “85 blows on the back”.

November 25, 2004
Iran Focus

[Peg]

Thank God I live in the USA!

EU? PU!

You can count on them to be on the wrong side of any issue: GAWD!

[gmc]

posted by sarasara
EU Supported Regime Flogs 14yr old Boy To Death

So far as I know they finance themselves.

http://web.amnesty.org/pages/treaty-crc-eng

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted on 20 November 1989. It entered into force in 1990. All states (apart from Somalia, Timor Leste and USA) are parties to this Convention.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child commits states parties to respect and ensure the enjoyment of a wide range of civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of children. Article 1 defines a child as "every human being below the age of eighteen unless under the law applicable to the child, majority is attained earlier".

The Convention on the Rights of the Child has two Optional Protocol: the protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict and the protocol on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. States must ratify the protocols in order to be bound by them.

At the UN Millennium Summit, heads of State and Government resolved:

"to encourage the ratification and full implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its optional protocols on the involvement of children in armed conflict and on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography." (United Nations Millennium Declaration, 18 September 2000, UN symbol: A/RES/55/2).

posted by elise

EU? PU! You can count on them to be on the wrong side of any issue: GAWD!

What makes you think we support regimes that flog children? Most eu countries have banned corporal punishment for children. Take what you read with a healthy dose of scepticism

http://www.richard.clark32.btinterne.../overview.html

The US is second only to Iran in the nember of people executed. Two countries one muslim and one christian. Thank goodness the UK isn't that religious.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4118727.stm

Do you have amnesty international in the US?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3782793.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3512985.stm

In September 2003, the EU threatened Iran with economic repercussions unless it restored international trust in its nuclear programme.

Washington has also criticised Friday's poll, describing it as neither free nor fair.

But the candidate expected to lead the conservative bloc in the new parliament called on the US to recognise the legitimacy of Iran's 25-year-old Islamic revolution as a first step to restoring relations.

"We believe the US government is not willing to hear our nation's message during the last 25 years," Gholamali Haddadadel, whose daughter is married to the son of the supreme leader, said.

Entering a dialogue with countries like Iran may not acxhieve much but it is still far more than can be achieved by not talking. The alternative to diplomacy is warfare.

[capt_buzzard]

EU on Human Rights is crap also. Torture of prisoners is still alive and well in Spain
today.

[capt_buzzard]

Originally Posted by Peg

Thank God I live in the USA!

YES. To most people here,The United States is still the Greatest Country in the World, but with G.W.Bush leading it, I'm not a 100% sure.

[gmc]

posted by capn buzzard
EU on Human Rights is crap also. Torture of prisoners is still alive and well in Spain
today.

Hypocrisy must be the only international standard all politicians adhere to.

[capt_buzzard]

The EU Paeliament Quote, Promoting human rights.
The European Union promotes respect for human rights at home and abroad. It focuses on civil. political, economic, social and cultural right. It also seeks to promote the rights of women and children as well as minorities and displaced persons.

Human rights feature in the EU's trade and cooperation agreements with its partners and are a prerequisite for countries seeking to join the Union itself. The EU has maintained a human rights dialogue in recent years with countries like China and Iran. It has imposed sanctions for human rights breaches on several countries including Serbia, Burma/Myanmar and Zimbabwe.

The EU also helps pay for a range of activities that defend human rights, such as the Eurpean Initiative for Democracy and Human Rights which spends 100m euro per year.


www.europarl.eu.int