Heres some. Executions are abhorrent and a sign of a government beyond the contol of its people. So why are you just baiting 'lefties' rather than doing something?

George W Bush, by sending them to fight a war that will only benefit his own and his friends business interests has in his own way "executed" hundreds of US service personnel in Iraq. Their crime? Being too poor to have any other kind of life but join the military.

I can't find confirmation of this story anyplace apart from that single web site, which is run anonymously somewhere in France.

And explain to me please why it's the "lefties" job in your eyes to take non-military action against anything wrong? Is there some sort of gun to your head stopping you? Or perhaps you've never given a fuck before, and still don't today.

I've been involved since the 1980s in actions at the Iran, Iraq, Syrian and Turkish embassies in London many times, and never saw any non-left groups there alongside us. Ever.

In the case of Iraq, as soon as Saddam stopped obeying US orders, suddenly all of our actions against your former favourite client state were conveniently forgotten about by the press, and they started calling us "defenders of Saddam".

Now you're trying it on again with Iran. Selective amnesia strikes again...

Bu$h = Sick Fuck
Islam = Sick az fuck
Christianity = sick az hell

All rulers must go! Anarchy or Nothing!

 http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.do?id=80256DD400782B8480256EF9005CC228

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

Public Statement

AI Index: MDE 13/036/2004 (Public)
News Service No: 210
23 August 2004

IRAN: Amnesty International outraged at reported execution of a 16 year old girl
Amnesty International today expressed its outrage at the reported execution of a girl who is believed to be 16 years old, Ateqeh Rajabi, in Neka in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran, on 15 August, for "acts incompatible with chastity" (amal-e manafe-ye 'ofat). Ateqeh Rajabi was reportedly publicly hanged on a street in the city centre of Neka.

Amnesty International is alarmed that this execution was carried out despite reports that Ateqeh Rajabi was not believed to be mentally competent, and that she reportedly did not have access to a lawyer at any stage.

The execution of Ateqeh Rajabi is the tenth execution of a child offender in Iran recorded by Amnesty International since 1990. Amnesty International has urged Iran's judicial authorities to halt further executions of child offenders - people who were under 18 years old at the time of the offence. This is to bring Iran's law and practice in line with requirements of international human rights law.

A bill to raise the minimum age for execution to 18 was reportedly under consideration by parliament in December 2003. However, the bill is not believed to have been ratified by the Guardian Council, Iran's highest legislative body.

Amnesty International believes that the execution of Ateqeh Rajabi underlines the urgent necessity that Iran pass legislation removing provision for the execution of child offenders, thereby preventing further execution of child offenders, and bringing Iran into line with its obligations under international law.

Further, the organization is urging the authorities to clarify whether Ateqel Rajabi had legal representation and whether a legally approved doctor deemed her psychologically fit to stand trial.

Background
According to report on Peyk-e Iran, Ateqeh Rajabi was sentenced to death approximately three months ago, by a lower court in Neka in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran, for "acts incompatible with chastity".

During her trial, at which she was reportedly not represented by a lawyer, the judge allegedly severely criticised her dress, harshly reprimanding her. It is alleged that Ateqeh Rajabi was mentally ill both at the time of her crime and during her trial proceedings.

It is reported that although Ateqeh Rajabi's national ID card stated that she was 16 years old, the Mazandaran Judiciary announced at her execution that her age was 22.

The case reportedly attracted the attention of the Head of the Judiciary for the Mazandaran province, who ensured that the case be heard promptly by the Supreme Court. In Iran, all death sentences have to be upheld by the Supreme Court before they can be implemented.

The death sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court, and Ateqeh Rajabi was publicly hanged in the city centre of Neka on 15 August. According to Peyk-e Iran, the lower court judge that issued the original sentence was the person that put the noose around her head as she went to the gallows.

On the same night that she was buried, Ateqeh Rajabi's corpse was reportedly removed from the grave by unknown individuals. The Rajabi family have lodged a complaint and have called for an investigation.

The co-defendant of Ateqeh Rajabi, an unnamed man, was reportedly sentenced to 100 lashes. He was released after this sentence was carried out.

As a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Iran is bound not to execute child offenders. Both treaties provide that capital punishment shall not be imposed for offences committed by persons under 18 year of age at the time of committing the offence.

Iran does occasionally execute child offenders, as well as the mentally ill. They should indeed be condemned for this.

But the real champion child-killer, and leading executioner of the retarded, is of course the good old USA:
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalty-children-stats-eng
http://web.amnesty.org/pages/deathpenalty-children-eng
http://www.amnestyusa.org/abolish/juvexec.html

Executions of child offenders since 1990

The use of the death penalty against child offenders – people under 18 at the time of the crime – is clearly prohibited under international law, yet a handful of countries persist with child executions.

The use of the death penalty for crimes committed by people younger than 18 is prohibited under international human rights law, yet some countries still execute child offenders. Such executions are few compared to the total number of executions in the world. Their significance goes beyond their number and calls into question the commitment of the executing states to respect international law.

Since 1990 Amnesty International has documented 37 executions of child offenders in eight countries: China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the USA and Yemen. Several of these countries have changed their laws to exclude the practice. Executions of child offenders represent a tiny fraction of the total of executions worldwide recorded by Amnesty International each year.
Most of the executions were in the USA.

During the same period, several countries raised to 18 the minimum age for application of the death penalty, in accordance with international law. Yemen and Zimbabwe raised the minimum age to 18 in 1994, as did China in 1997 and Pakistan in 2000. A similar move is under way in Iran.
But in a dozen states in the USA, children of 16 or under can be sentenced to death.

So where's the outrage in Raving-Right Land about this long history of atrocity? Oops! Sorry! Silly me! You neocons never disapprove of Christian and Jewish extremists, do you?

Of course, the US is not bound by the same legal obligations as Iran in this case, since there are just two UN member countries which refuse to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Somalia, and the USA.

But you lefties don't understand: we only ever execute TERRORIST children, and retarded TERRORISTS. Iran, on the other hand, is a member of the Axis of Evil, and never has good reasons for murdering its own citizens like we do.

Besides, we're about to invade Iran, just as soon as can stop getting our asses kicked next door. So can you quit criticizing this perfectly good piece of war propaganda, at least until we've installed a pro-Western government in Iran, like our pals the Karimov regime in Uzbekistan?

Karimov, now there's a man who knows how to get rid of evil-doers. Anyone who criticizes his regime can look forward to getting boiled to death, or slowly suffocated with a plastic bag, which makes hanging look a little wimpy if you ask me.

 http://www.hrw.org/editorials/2003/ebrd022403.htm
 http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/08/uzbek081002.htm
 http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0216-04.htm

That's why Britain and the USA have just upped their little contribution to Uzbekistan, to the tune of 500 million dollars a year. You're either for us or against us, and these guys are very definitely for us.

What a stupid comment to make, in generalizing 'Lefties'.
What side of the fence do you sit on?
I and others around me call out regardless if it's 'them' or 'us' doing the damage.

Somebody had to bring the information to us, and you have done that. Well done, and it's a damn outrageous that the girl was executed, no doubt.

So, I take it you've tried to have a word with the Iranian embassy about this?

Regards, for all they are worth.

Ray is correct: the pro-war right-wing work very hard to find stories of atrocities committed by the current targets for their next war, while ignoring the far greater number of even worse atrocities committed by their current Muslim allies in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Saudi, Pakistan, as well as their Christian allies in Russia, Colombia, etc.

I think non-right-wing readers can be forgiven a certain cynicism regarding the motives here in ferreting out the wrongdoings of Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and the rest of your hit list. You can find stories like these from many countries. So why are so many articles being posted by the neocons about the manifold crimes of Iran and Syria lately?