While doing my usual daily surfing of the Arab blogoshpere this morning I came across this disturbing picture of public hangings occurring in Kuwait City as featured on the blog 2:48AM ~ The B Sides. [Click the picture to enlarge] Yes, you heard me right. Public hangings are occurring in this day and time!
Welcome to the Middle East ladies and gentleman. It’s a place where you cannot kiss in public — or show any public displays of affection — but you’ll definitely get an opportunity to see the sights and sounds of public executions! Yes, I’m frustrated!
Hi Natasha,
You are frustrated becasue you are not raped in your life or some of your the close relatives or friends not killed by any one.
Yes Kuwait Gov has to stop/change hanging to burn alive public.
i Am an indian but not a slave for the Global Media who is spreading wrong inf against middle east people.
(remove your cloths , show everything to public.Yes its the real freedom of women????)
Any one who commits rape should be crucified, or burned alive not hung.
Public hanging is practiced in Syria as well. Men who rape are hanged in public to set example for others. I agree it is horrifying to hang them in public, However, when we know which districts it is , we can avoid them… (Being Ironic!)
Besides, some of the comments here intend to show Jordan as a Very modern vountry where such things never occur! Mind me telling you that Jordan has honour crimes and these are considered to top its neighbouring countries!!
Public hangings are pretty awful. But really our death penalty in America is not much better except that it’s done behind closed doors. State sponsered execution is wrong no matter how it’s done. It’s just worse and seems more barbaric when it’s made public.
OneTwoFour, While I don’t entirely disagree with you, it’s like comparing apples and oranges.
I think when Timothy McVeigh was finally executed for blowing up the Oklahoma building he was executed in live transmission seen by the families of the victims. I still think this is barbaric but it depends on the crime committed.
I would say welcome to Kuwait people!
THis sorts of things doesn’t happen all over the Middle EAst! Does it happen in Jordan?Of course not!
Now it says in the blog : I was able to see this from my office, maybe his/her office is in a high rise and they were able to see what is going on in the jail courtyard or something!
Now public hanging still exists in Iran, Kuwait and other Arab countries (Gulf states) I don’t think so!
IF the people being hung have had a fair trial, and the punishment fits the crime, then I have no problem with public hangings. It used to be done here in America decades ago, I suppose as a deterrent. If you look at some American archives, not school books which paint history in a different light, you will find public hangings were quit an event with vendors hawking their goods and all!
Natasha, are your passionate feelings against all death sentences, carrying the sentence out in public, or the fact that these people may not have had a fair trial? Take care.
If you think hanging in public is terrible, you should see how Iraqis and Palestinians are killed in public and in far greater numbers than those hanged by Kuwait. Sure the death penalty is wrong IMHO, but Americans and Israelis kill daily with total impunity and without trial, often they kill indiscriminatly, and you can’t take those killers to court. That’s frustrating.
Well… The picture is not clear. But as far as I know, public hanging is not something new to humanity, and you will find it all over the world… some times it is done not only by a regime or government, some time it is done by angry people or hatred groups. and a long time ago it was normal in Europe, Asia and all over the world… it aims to send messages to the public that if you do the same you will end up like them… now in the modern world, this act became unaccepted… because we believe that regimes are to serve people and not the opposite way… but the picture sometimes does not tell the hole story… we need more than a picture to tell me what really happened out there.
Im all for Public hangings if the crime is rape.