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Iran: Clerical courts set free women traffickers |
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Wednesday, 28 December 2005 |
The state-run daily Iran reported that a man involved in human
trafficking of young Iranian girls, each sold in Arab countries for
over 50 million rials (US$4,600), received a prison term of three to
five months. An appeals court, however, overturned the ruling and
released the smuggler and ordered him to pay a fine of just US$275.
The Iranian regime has executed minors on much lesser charges and
continues to issue stoning to death verdicts. But the regime's
judiciary deals quite leniently with networks of human traffickers of
young Iranian girls and women, since the ring leaders of such networks
are mostly linked to the ruling mullahs who profit from the illicit
trade.
On rare occasions when one of these ring leaders is arrested, they
eventually walk free after paying less than 6% of what they earn from
selling a single woman. Iranian state-run newspapers have reported that
hundreds of girls and women are smuggled and sold in Persian Gulf
states and Pakistan every month.
Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz, Chair of the Women's Committee of the National
Resistance Council of Iran, called on all women's rights and human
rights organizations, and also all relevant international bodies in the
United Nations, Council of Europe, European Union, Organization of
Islamic Conference, and the Arab League to condemn the trafficking of
young Iranian girls by Iran's fundamentalist regime. She demanded
urgent regional and international action to stop the continued
victimization of Iranian girls and women.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 28, 2005
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