Iran: live free – and die

By artappraiser on Fri, 09/30/2011 - 3:21am |

By The Guardian's editorial board, Guardian.co.uk, September 29, 2011

The proposed hanging of Youssef Nadarkhani is an outrage. It is also a terrifying glimpse of the injustice and arbitrary cruelty of the present Iranian regime. This paper opposes the death penalty always and everywhere, but at least when it is applied for murder or treason there is a certain twisted logic to the punishment. But Mr Nadarkhani's crime is neither murder nor treason. He is not even a drug smuggler. He is just a Christian from the city of Rasht, on the Caspian Sea, who refuses to renounce his faith. There is a pure and ghastly theatricality at the heart of this cruel drama which goes to the heart of religious freedom.....

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/29/iran-live-free-die-editorial?newsfeed=true