Thousands watch as gang rapists are hanged

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2002-10-02 08:19am

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id ... 3&set_id=1

Thousands watch as gang rapists are hanged

September 29 2002 at 11:06AM

By Stefan Smith

Tehran - Residents of the Iranian capital were given a public display of revolutionary justice Sunday, with five convicted gang rapists executed by hanging at dawn.

The gang, dubbed the "black vultures" by police who tracked their spate of brutal rapes, were strung up from cranes before thousands of people, including the mother of at least one of them, at two different sites in Tehran.

With authorities keen to make an example of the gang, the local and foreign press were given full access to the spectacle, which involved the convicted rapists being slowly lifted off the back of trucks by the necks and suffering a slow death by strangulation.

"We were going to execute them in prison, but we were flooded with telephone calls from many women asking for us to hang them in public," a court official said.

The deaths took at least five minutes, and drew cheers and applause of "Allah u Akbar" (God is Greatest) from the spectators, many of whom had scaled lamp posts to get a better view.

At least 5 000 people held back by hundreds of riot police witnessed each of the hangings at Azadi Square in the west and Lavizan square in the east of the city.

The gang was convicted of carrying out a series of brutal assaults across the capital, coaxing young girls into parks before tying them up, robbing them of cash and jewellery and raping them.

Police put their number of victims at at least 10, but said it was probably more given the stigma involved in filing a rape complaint.

The gang members, all aged between 25 and 26, were also convicted of extortion. A sixth member of the gang was handed a 25-year jail term and flogging.

"Cases like this we do in public so it gives people a lesson," said Mohammad Erfan, the judge who handed out the convictions.

Riot police were out in force to keep the crowds under control, but the overall atmosphere was that of a carnival, with several traders out selling biscuits to the captivated audience.

Hundreds of people had started congregating for the events as early as 4am, seeking to beat the rush for a front-row view.

In Lavizan Square, where the crowd including hundreds of women and several young children, tear gas was used to disperse over-zealous onlookers as the cranes hoisted the convicts' bodies.

In the crowd there were a number of the gang's victims, and a hysterical mother who had turned up to watch her son die.

"If women were not so corrupt, my son would never have done this," said the woman, who only identified herself as the mother of convict Amir Farkhri.

Speaking to the press just minutes before they were led away for ablutions and then death, two of the convicts protested their innocence, but one accepted his guilt and appealed for forgiveness.

The two men executed at Azadi Square did not speak to journalists.

Iran imposes the death penalty for murder, armed robbery, rape, blasphemy and smuggling drugs if the quantity held is in excess of 5km of opium.

The result is a high rate of executions, many of them in public.

According to human rights watchdog Amnesty International, last year at least 139 people, including one minor, were executed.

The true figures may have been considerably higher, according to Amnesty. - Sapa-AFP

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Rape used to be a CAPITAL CRIME in this country, FYI.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-02 08:23am

Okay, but why was the mother hanged, again?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2002-10-02 08:26am

verilon wrote:Okay, but why was the mother hanged, again?

IDIOT.

..........

The gang, dubbed the "black vultures" by police who tracked their spate of brutal rapes, were strung up from cranes before thousands of people, including the mother of at least one of them, at two different sites in Tehran.

......

Brush up on your reading skills.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-02 08:28am

Oh...oops...brain fart there. Sometimes when I read too fast, parts of sentences jump from where they are to other parts of other sentences. Usually from one line up to the next or down to the next. If that makes any sense.

And I'm not an idiot...at least I don't consider one. And if you're going to call someone and idiot, you have to do it like this:

[Ren]
You--you-- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDIOT!!!!
[/Ren]

That is all.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2002-10-02 08:29am

verilon wrote:
[Ren]
You--you-- EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDIOT!!!!
[/Ren]

That is all.

Someone remembers Ren & Stimpy! Yey! I thought Beavis and Butthead
had wiped them from popular culture...

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-02 08:30am

Oh, GODDESS NO!!!! Ren and Stimpy were WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY better than B&B....Daria, IMHO, is a contender, tho...

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-02 09:18am

I can't say as I agree with Iran on many things but this is one of them. Rapist derserve to be executed. Simple effective justice.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-02 09:27am

Nobody deserves to be executed...torture until death will suffice...

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2002-10-02 04:57pm

What happened to chucking them off cliffs?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2002-10-02 04:59pm

XaLEv wrote:What happened to chucking them off cliffs?

They found high technology.......CATERPILLAR cranes!

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-02 05:02pm

MKSheppard wrote:
XaLEv wrote:What happened to chucking them off cliffs?
They found high technology.......CATERPILLAR cranes!

Fun, fun, FUN:

Hang them over the cliffs with the caterpillar cranes using bungee cords...snap the necks and let the bodies bounce!

MWUAHAHAHA!!!

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2002-10-02 05:11pm

Burning at stake. The classics never die.

Post by **haas mark** » 2002-10-02 05:29pm

Stormbringer wrote:Burning at stake. The classics never die.

True, but it seems more reserved for martyrs than true criminals.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-10-02 05:40pm

verilon wrote:
MKSheppard wrote:
XaLEv wrote:What happened to chucking them off cliffs?
They found high technology.......CATERPILLAR cranes!
Fun, fun, FUN:

Hang them over the cliffs with the caterpillar cranes using bungee cords...snap the necks and let the bodies bounce! MWUAHAHAHA!!!

That would kill them instantly. Better to throw them off with a bungee cord attached to each leg, and a heavy weight on each arm. Throw them off upside down and watch the fun as each bounce pull there arms and legs further and further out of their sockets till they tear off. But limit the weight size so it takes a couple tired to get those limbs off.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2002-10-02 05:42pm

Stormbringer wrote:I can't say as I agree with Iran on many things but this is one of them. Rapist derserve to be executed. Simple effective justice.

Damn straight.

Shadow WarChief · Post by **Shadow WarChief** » 2002-10-02 06:37pm

Holy crap! The fundie Muslims actually did something RIGHT!

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2002-10-02 07:03pm

Shadow WarChief wrote:Holy crap! The fundie Muslims actually did something RIGHT!

They don't have their moments often, but they do have them...

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2002-10-02 07:06pm

If you execute enough people, you're bound to get some real mothafuckers.

^^

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2002-10-02 07:51pm

lol, that's a good philosophy

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2002-10-02 07:55pm

I do recall a serial Rapist in Ulster getting his come uppance. Police in Ulster still have no leads except that the rapist had attacked both Prod. and Catholic girls (Teens and younger) and was found when Police recieved an anonamus call, informing them where they could find the body. Either the IRA or the UFV had dosed him with Gas, before setting him alight in his own mini.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2002-10-02 08:03pm

THe Yosemite Bear wrote:I do recall a serial Rapist in Ulster getting his come uppance. Police in Ulster still have no leads except that the rapist had attacked both Prod. and Catholic girls (Teens and younger) and was found when Police recieved an anonamus call, informing them where they could find the body. Either the IRA or the UFV had dosed him with Gas, before setting him alight in his own mini.

Poor Mini

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-10-02 08:10pm

Yeah, a real fuckin' tearjerker...