AI report and campaign against executions by stoning in Iran

Amnistía Internacional publicou hoxe un informe sobre as penas de morte executadas mediante lapidación en Irán. O informe está accesible desde a páxina da campaña.

O informe leva por título “Iran: End executions by stoning” (PDF, 227 KB). Copio e pego un extracto da introducción:

[...] Execution by stoning, a punishment prescribed in Iran’s Penal Code, is a particularly grotesque and horrific practice. Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all circumstances and believes that stoning is specifically designed to increase the suffering of victims. Iranian law prescribes that the stones are deliberately chosen to be large enough to cause pain, but not so large as to kill the victim immediately. It is a punishment meted out specifically for adultery by married men and women, an act that is not even a crime in most countries of the world, and the majority of those sentenced to death by stoning are women.

While Amnesty International recognizes the right of governments to bring to justice those who commit crimes, it opposes the death penalty in all cases as a violation of the right to life and the ultimate form of cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It takes no position on the cultural, religious or political values that underlie a particular system of law, but it does insist that laws and judicial procedures conform to internationally recognized human rights standards and that governments abide by their international human rights obligations.

As Iran is a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the government is legally bound to observe the provisions of this treaty and to ensure that they are fully reflected in the country’s laws and practices relating to human rights. Death by stoning violates Articles 6 (right to life) and 7 (prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment) of the ICCPR.

The UN Safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights of those facing the death penalty call for a reduction of offences punishable by death to only the most serious crimes. [...]

Que fan Bush e Sarkozy nos países árabes

Os mass media presentan as actividades de Bush como diplomáticas e encamiñadas á paz. Saturan ó público con informacións sobre a nova parella de Sarkozy. Pero poucos minutos e poucas liñas se dedican ós auténticos intereses que levan ós presidentes dos Estados Unidos e de Francia a viaxar polos países árabes. Citarei algúns titulares recollidos esta mañá e que constitúen excepcións á regra:

• Francia y EE.UU. reponen los arsenales de los países árabes (ABC)
• Bush rearma Oriente Próximo (El País)
• Francia vende dos reactores nucleares a Emiratos Árabes (El País)
• Bush hace una venta millonaria de material militar a Arabia Saudí para cercar a Irán (El Mundo)
• Sarkozy to sign UAE nuclear deal (BBC News)

Tesouro Medieval Informatizado da Lingua Galega

Coñezo a través da bitácora “Brétemas”, que escribe Manuel Bragado Rodríguez, da existencia do Tesouro Medieval Informatizado da Lingua Galega (TMILG). Estamos diante doutro magnífico traballo do Instituto da Lingua Galega (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela), que xa elaborara un “corpus do galego moderno” chamado Tesouro Informatizado da Lingua Galega (TILG). Copio e pego a información do propio sitio web do TMILG:

O corpus do TMILG abrangue, en números redondos, unhas 16000 unidades textuais distribuídas nun total de 82 obras, representativas das tres grandes categorías recoñecibles na produción textual da Galicia medieval: a prosa notarial, a prosa non notarial e a poesía (verso).

A prosa “notarial” é a que maior volume de texto achega ó TMILG, recollendo documentos de mosteiros, catedrais, concellos, particulares… A categoría “non notarial” abrangue a prosa histórica, literaria, xurídica, relixiosa e técnica. Dentro da “poesía” inclúense a lírica trobadoresca dos séculos XII a XIV, profana (cantigas de amigo, de amor, de escarnio e lais de Bretaña) ou relixiosa (Cantigas de Santa Maria), e a denominada “escola galego-castelá” (séculos XIV e XV).

Para o estudo da lexicografía galega son interesantes tamén os traballos do Seminario de Lingüística Informática (Universidade de Vigo) e do Centro “Ramón Piñeiro” para a Investigación en Humanidades.