Acquittement pour meurtre avoué

Voilà qui fait froid dans le dos. Un exemple, en Iran, de comment l'on peut faire dire n'importe quoi au droit pour peu que l'on soit de mauvaise foi. Et là malheureusement, c'est la Cour suprême iranienne qui est de mauvaise foi, selon un article de la BBC. Ca se passe de commentaires (gras et soulignements ajoutés)!

Iran's Supreme Court has acquitted a group of men charged over a series of gruesome killings in 2002, according to lawyers for the victims' families.

The vigilantes were not guilty because their victims were involved in un-Islamic activities, the court found.

The killers said they believed Islam let them spill the blood of anyone engaged in illicit activities if they issued two warnings to the victims.

The serial killings took place in 2002 in the south-eastern city of Kerman.

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Up to 18 people were killed in just one year, but only five of the murders were tried in court.

According to their confessions, the killers put some of their victims in pits and stoned them to death. Others were suffocated. One man was even buried alive while others had their bodies dumped in the desert to be eaten by wild animals.

Now the Supreme Court is reported to have acquitted all the killers of the charge of murder on the grounds that their victims were all morally corrupt.

Some of the group may, however, face prison sentences or have to pay financial compensation to their victims' families.

Pour rappel, l'Iran est signataire de la Charte des Nations-Unies et des Pactes de 1966...et déclare respecter en tout points les droits de l'homme...