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What
is immoral?
The "stoning" of Ali Dizaei for adultery in Hammersmith.
So Ali Dizaei walked free from the Old Bailey last week after being cleared of all criminal charges, but he has not being freed yet of public scrutiny. Once a leading ethnic minority officer, he was investigated and persecuted for corruption. His supporters claim he was actually the victim of institutional racism.
Now Scotland Yard is to face an independent inquiry after spending £7 million in the case. The racial issues inside the Met are a matter on the hands of The Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA), which is expected to announce soon an investigation. Outside the institutions, it is up to the public to judge.
The Evening Standard published last week an article about Mr Dizaei "colourful" private life and behaviour. According to the paper, this officer who was investigated, persecuted and cleared of all criminal charges had had relationships with six women while he was married.
The report
focus on the private behaviour of this Iranian-born officer: "The
picture that emerges is of a senior policemen who took his lovers mainly
from the Iranian community in Britain, and a man who took the notion
of an open marriage to the extreme".
Sohrab Eshraghi, the owner of the flat where Mr. Dizaei conducted some
of his relationships, told the Evening Standard: "To mix that with
his job is not really fair". The flat used is located above Yas,
an Iranian restaurant in Hammersmith Road, at the heart of a borough
where more than 130 languages are spoken and 18% of its population are
from ethnic minorities like this officer who was investigated, persecuted
and cleared of all criminal charges.
According to Ms Sima Evans, who claims to be one of his former lovers, Dizaei behaviour has nothing to do with the Iranian culture. Indeed, Iran's controversial use of stoning as a means of execution for adultery, either for men or women, is heavily condemned by Human Rights organisations all over the world. The Islamic Laws are not applied in the UK, but it does not prevent some forms of stoning.
For more details of the private life of this officer who was investigated, persecuted and cleared of all criminal charges, please refer to the Evening Standard.
September 19, 2003