>When this gets overturned in the final decision, I assure you that
>there will be no front page article in the New York Times to report on
Haven't seen any further news on that other case either:
>A judge caused outrage in 2004 in Neka, in the north, after he issued
>a death sentence for a 16-year old girl for what he said were
>chastity crimes. After the summary trial, he had her hanged in public
>immediately, before the necessary approval from the Supreme Court.
Has the judge in that case been sentenced for murder yet? As you say, it might just be that the western media has simply failed to report it if so. But until I know that the judge in that case has been sentenced to life imprisonment, I'm never going to be able to share your touching faith in the Iranian judicial system.
To tell the honest truth, the fact that the judge in that case wasn't torn limb from limb by an enraged mob, within 24 hours of the news getting out, is an indictment of the Iranian people as well. What's the use of retaining a primitive legal and religious vigilantism, if it isn't applied to psychotic misogynist members of the judiciary?
Please, no more ridiculous defences of this backward barbarian society. It turns my stomach.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas