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Mr. Ghassemi-Shall faces imminent execution in Iran. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Diane Ablonczy issued a joint statement asking Iran to release and halt the execution of Hamid Ghassemi-Shall.

 

Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was arrested in late May 2008 while visiting his mother in Iran. This arrest took place approximately two weeks after the arrest of his brother, Alborz Ghassemi-Shall.

 

In November 2009 Hamid’s wife in Canada received reports that both Hamid and Alborz were convicted of espionage and sentenced to death. The legal proceedings were deeply unfair and neither Hamid or Alborz had a meaningful opportunity to defend themselves. His conviction appears to be based on a document of an alleged email exchange between Hamid and Alborz. Hamid has unequivocally stated that the document is a complete fabrication and that he never sent any such message. Testing and analysis by his lawyer reportedly confirm that to be the case.

 

Hamid and Alborz were in solitary confinement for 18 months until the end of November 2009 when they were transferred to a general population section in Tehran's Evin prison. On 20 January 2010 Alborz died in prison, reportedly of stomach cancer. Mr. Hamid Ghassemi-Shall reported that both he and Alborz were subject to “extreme pressure” during their detention.

 

Hamid Ghassemi-Shall was sentenced to death. His case has undergone a number of reviews, but the family confirmed in March 2012 that the death sentance has not been lifted.

Take Action

 

Write the Iranian authorities. Request that they:

 

Guarantee that Mr. Hamid Ghassemi-Shall will not be executed.

Release Mr. Hamid Ghassemi-Shall immediately unless he is promptly brought to trial on recognizably criminal charges in legal proceedings that fully conform to international fair trial standards.

Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei

The Office of the Supreme Leader

Islamic Republic Street – End of Shahid

Keshvar Doust Street

Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran

 

Salutation: Your Excellency

 

Email: info_leader@leader.ir AND tweet @khamenei_ir

 

Copies to:

 

Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani

Office of the Head of the Judiciary

Pasteur Street, Vali Asr Avenue, south of

Serah-e Jomhouri

Tehran, 1316814737

Islamic Republic of Iran

Email: bia.judi@yahoo.com or info@dadiran.ir (In the subject line, write FAO Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani)

 

Salutation: Your Excellency

 

Copies to:

 

Mr Kambiz Sheikh Hassani

Chargé d’Affaires, Embassy for the Islamic Republic of Iran

245 Metcalfe Street

Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2K2

 

Fax: (613) 232-5712

Email: executive@iranembassy.ca

 

More Background

 

The Canadian government has sponsored a resolution censuring Iran at the United Nations General Assembly human rights committee, every year since the 2003 torture and death while in custody, of Iranian-Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi in Iran. The resolution has expressed deep concern at serious ongoing human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran. The violations include torture, flogging, amputations, stoning, and "pervasive gender inequality and violence against women." Canada has also "particular concern" with the Iranian government's failure to launch a thorough investigation of alleged human rights violations in the wake of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's contested re-election in 2009.

 

In a new year’s statement on January 1, 2011 the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, expressed deep concern for the “deteriorating human rights situation in Iran.” He expressed particular concern for the uncertain fate of two Canadians of dual nationality who remain in prison in Iran. (Hamid Ghassemi- Shall and Hossein Derakhshan). He further referred to reports that Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian permanent resident, has been condemned to death and that his sentence could be carried out at any time. Minister Cannon encouraged the Iranian authorities to show mercy and compassion to those who are in Iran’s prisons without just cause, and called on Iran to respect its international human rights obligations in law and in practice and to foster a more open dialogue with the international community.

 

خواهر حمید قاسمی: شما را به خدا نگذارید برادرم را اعدام کنند، حمید حتی فعال سیاسی هم نیست

soundcloud.com/frl-journalist/hamidghasemi

 

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Rather macabre penny arcade machine, York Castle Museum

Light painting concept photo, all made by myself.

35 Brewer St. Soho London W1

I'm told that "galge" in Norwegian means "gallows." This spot was reportedly an execution site a few hundred years ago.

Where danish members of the resistance where executed by the german soldiers and gestapo during WW2 and the occupation of Denmark april 9 th 1940 - may 5th 1945.

Illustration from the 1800 edition of Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (this edition entitled, <Fox’s original and complete Book of Martyrs; Containing Copious & Authentic Accounts of the Lives, Sufferings and Deaths of the Protestant Martyrs in the Reign of Queen Mary the first; To which will be Added, The Lives and Persecutions of the Primitive Martyrs from the Birth of Christ to the time of Queen Mary)

 

Depicted in this scene is the execution of Lady Jane Grey. Underneath the engraving is an inscription reading:

Lady Jane Dudley (formerly Gray) Wife of Lord Guildford & Cousin to Queen Mary, beheaded by order of that bloody Princess on Tower Hill. Feb 21. 1554 being then entering her 17th year.

  

As the date of this publication indicates, Foxe’s work proved to have a lasting legacy, with editions still in demand by the nineteenth-century. Original sixteenth-century woodcuts of the persecutions of the martyrs were however frequently replaced with up-to-date illustrations and portraits. This engraving of Lady Jane Grey was an example of one of the eighteenth-century prints that were used.

 

The execution yard in Auschwitz between blocks 10 and 11 seen from the role call yard.

Dancers enacting an execution scene in Montpellier

A wall where thousands of political prisoners were executed and flogged by the SS in Auschwitz.

Here is George the Grapefruit. His only crime against humanity is to be round, juicy, and delicious. Therefore, he must die!

Execution Martyrs of Gorkum (Dutch: Martelaren van Gorcum) - a group of 19 Dutch Catholic clerics and friars who were tortured, hanged and mutilated on 9 July 1572 in the town of Brielle (or Den Briel) by militant Dutch Calvinists during the 16th century religious wars specifically the Dutch Revolt against Spanish rule, which developed into the Eighty Years' War.

 

It's just one example of the many very brutal actions that followed killing people because of religion.

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrs_of_Gorkum.

 

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Historisch Museum Den Briel - a Dutch museum located inside Brielle's former weigh house and local prison, built in 1623 in the historical city of Brielle. Previously known as the "Trompmuseum", after Brielle-born Maarten Tromp who defeated the Spanish fleet in the Eighty Years' War.

 

Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historisch_Museum_Den_Briel

 

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About Pixels - #painting - #Museum #Brielle #NL

England. M1 motorway services, 4AM on 30 December 2006. Newsflash on Saddam Hussein's execution.

RICOH GR1S / Kodak 400TX Self Development

For a blog post about the death penalty.

Detail from original image There's a hairy ass fair in the County Clare from National Library of Ireland on The Commons.

 

*the image and title of this cropped derivative are taken from a note left on the original image by Flickr user O Mac. The image was cropped from the highest resolution version, but may still be of very poor quality.

 

The original comment read "Cheap Executions"

 

This image has been created as part of an experiment by James Morley. To see all the images created so far from notes left on Flickr Commons images, see the tag CommonsNotes

He's been waiting for this.

Execution Rocks Lighthouse is located in Long Island Sound. Legend has it that the British used to chain prisoners to the rocks at low tide and wait for them to drown as the tide came in. The lighthouse was built in the 1840's and recently handed over to a non-profit for restoration. It is a 30 minute boat ride away from the shore, and has no electricity or running water, plus it is rumored to be haunted.

Although initially an internment and concentration camp, providing enforced labour for nearby factories, Auschwitz I also witnessed mass killings, although not on the scale of the nearby Birkenau camp built later. The building on the right, Block 11, was the camp prison, for want of a better description, and many inmates suffered by being held in cells too small to sit down in, or with no air. Others were sentenced to be shot in front of this wall (demolished at the end of the war, but reconstructed later), while others had their hands tied behind their backs and were hung by the wrists from the posts on the left. The prison block was also where the first experiments with Zyklon B gas took place. The block on the left, just out of shot, was the "hospital" block, scene of many horrific experiments.

Graduation rehearsals are bad enough...

CT POST / JEFF BUSTRAAN 5-12-05 ROSS EXECUTION

Alison Johnson, Middletown, Mary Ginley, Longmeadow, MA, and Marge Morgan, Longmeadow, MA, were among several hundred to walk from shaker field to the site of Michael Ross' execution in the early morning hours on Friday to hold a vigil as the execution of Michael Ross was carried out.

Screen capture from "11 EXECUTIONS" video.

vimeo.com/139718847

Galgen Seengen ( forca gibet gallows Richtstätte Richtplatz lieu d'exécution luogo di esecuzione place of execution ) im Wald bei Seengen im Kanton Aargau der Schweiz

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Captured prisoner execution... Spec Ops series.

Robert Stephenson gives us a more cheery look at London's public execution sites.

Robert Stephenson gives us a more cheery look at London's public execution sites.

It's fairly common for the Cobra organisation to have regular executions. Especially spies and deserters don't have to count on any sympathy from the commanding officers......

Complete with Guillotine.

Isolated inside its own fenced courtyard, the small building is known simply enough as the execution chamber. Between the years of 1937 and 1989, 39 or 40 (depending on the source) inmates were put to death inside the structure. All of the executions, save one, were conducted in the state's gas chamber where the sealed unit was filled with cyanide gas. The sole exception was the prison's last execution on January 26, 1989.

 

Missouri State Penitentiary

Jefferson City Missouri

Cole County

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