There is some ‘good’ news and some bad news from Iranian-occupied Kurdistan.

Abdolwahed (Hiwa) Boutimar’s death sentence has been quashed by the Supreme Court owing to irregularities in legal procedure. The case has now been referred back to the Revolutionary Court in Marivan that sentenced him, and that tribunal could reinstate the original sentence.

The bad news is that Adnan Hassanpours’s sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court, and needs only to be approved by the head of the judiciary before it can be carried out.

Hassanpour is entitled to another appeal, but his lawyer has not received the necessary documents, and cannot proceed without them. My Kurdish contact in Southampton, Khalid Khedri, fears that the Iranian regime is deliberately stalling on handing over the documents, and plans to go ahead and hang Hassanpour.

APPEALS TO:

Head of the Judiciary

His Excellency Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi

Ministry of Justice, Panzdah Khordad (Ark) Square, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: info@dadgostary-tehran.ir (In the subject line: FAO Ayatollah Shahroudi)
Fax: +98 21 3390 4986 (please keep trying, if the called is answered, say “fax please”)

COPIES TO:

President of Iran

His Excellency Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Presidency, Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: +98 21 6 649 5880
Email: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir
via website: http://www.president.ir/email

Tip and no iceberg:

hat tipping Hakness.

Right-wingers of all nations (yes - I know what it means - what? You don’t?) –the world over — without exception — scumbags.

As if we needed reminding.

“About 150 right-wing activists, including academics and Israel Defense Forces reserves officers, have signed a manifesto to be published Friday [yesterday] calling on security forces to refuse evacuating West Bank settlers on the grounds that it is a “crime against humanity.”

The grave that is present society — we shall all dance upon, come the moment. Tile it — tile it well — for it will be overburdened with the soles of many boots. The rightist political standpoint — a neurotic attachment to metaphysics — kill it — make it ex-metaphysics — it shall be so.