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Dec. 14th, 2004
Norman Geras points out, inadvertantly, why Iran is much closer to Gilead in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale than the United States is now.
It's really, really not nice when serial-killer logic gets applied as state policy.
On a related note, the website of the Iranian embassy in Ottawa is here.
A 19-year-old Iranian girl with a mental age of eight who was forced into prostitution by her mother has been sentenced to be flogged and executed for 'morality-related' offences, Amnesty International said yesterday.
The human rights pressure group has asked Iran's supreme court to stay the execution. The girl, named only as Leyla M, had suffered a "litany of abuse", it said.
"Sold into prostitution at the age of eight, she has experienced horrific sexual violence.
"We will not stand by mutely and let Leyla become the fourth child to be executed in Iran this year."
It's really, really not nice when serial-killer logic gets applied as state policy.
On a related note, the website of the Iranian embassy in Ottawa is here.