Iran Woman Who Faced Stoning to Be Lashed, Son Says

[Dos Equis]

God Bless America. 

Iran Woman Who Faced Stoning to Be Lashed, Son Says
Published September 06, 2010 | Associated Press


AP/Amnesty International
This undated image made available by Amnesty International in London shows Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother of two who had faced stoning to death in Iran on charges of adultery.

An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery is now facing a new punishment of 99 lashes because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her, the woman's son said Monday.

There was no official confirmation of the new sentence. The son, Sajjad Qaderzadeh, 22, said he did not know whether the new lashing sentence had been carried out yet, but heard about it from a prisoner who had recently left the Tabriz prison where his mother is being held.

The lawyer who once represented Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in Iran said from Paris that the situation was not clear.

"Publishing the photo provided a judge an excuse to sentence my poor mother to 99 lashes on the charge of taking a picture unveiled," Qaderzadeh told The Associated Press.

The Times of London said in its Monday edition it had apologized for the photo, but added that the new sentence "is simply a pretext."

"The regime's purpose is to make Ms. Ashtiani suffer for an international campaign to save her that has exposed so much iniquity," said the piece.

Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men after the death of her husband a year earlier and was sentenced by a court back then to 99 lashes. Later that year, she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death, even though she retracted a confession that she claims was made under duress.

Iran suspended that sentence in July, but now says she has been convicted of involvement in her husband's killing and she could still be executed by hanging.

Her former lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, said in a news conference in Paris that he said it was not at all certain if there really had been a new conviction and sentence over the photograph.

"I have contacted my former colleagues at the court who told me nothing was clear on this situation," he said following a news conference with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. "There isn't any punishment for this act in our law."

Kouchner called the sentence to death by stoning "the height of barbarism" and said her case has become a "personal cause," and he was "ready to do anything to save her. If I must go to Tehran to save her, I'll go to Tehran."

Ashtiani's two children remain in Iran and her son is a ticket seller for a bus company in the northern Iranian city of Tabriz. He said he and his younger sister Farideh, 18, have not seen their mother since early August.

"We have really missed her," he said. "We expect all influential bodies to help to save her."

The stoning sentence for Ashtiani has prompted international outcry over the past months with both Brazil and Italy asking Iran to show flexibility in the case.

The Vatican on Sunday raised the possibility of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save her life as well.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/06/iran-woman-faced-stoning-lashed-son-says/

[Skip8282]

Eh...she's still sitting on death row.  Fucking backward ass country.

[MCWAY]

Eh...she's still sitting on death row.  Fucking backward ass country.

My question is where is the dude? Why isn't he facing a rock concert, as well?

[George Whorewell]

America should be ashamed of itself for its record on human rights. If this country was more like Iran, the world would be a better place and the ACLU would voluntarily shut itself down.

[Fury]

She's already been flogged for another photo and they're planning on executing her as soon as Ramadan ends. But hey, they're a tolerant and peaceful country and it's the evil West that tries to paint them as being anything but that! 

[MCWAY]

She's already been flogged for another photo and they're planning on executing her as soon as Ramadan ends. But hey, they're a tolerant and peaceful country and it's the evil West that tries to paint them as being anything but that! 

Yet, the guy she was allegedly screwing walks. At least in the Old Testament of the Bible, BOTH adultering parties get pebbles to the skull.

[Fury]

Yet, the guy she was allegedly screwing walks. At least in the Old Testament of the Bible, BOTH adultering parties get pebbles to the skull.

Not the first time. There are countless incidents of this. A few years ago a 13-year-old Somali girl was stoned to death in front of 1,000 people in a stadium after she reported to the police that she was gang-raped. Now that's what I call a progressive society.

[MCWAY]

Not the first time. There are countless incidents of this. A few years ago a 13-year-old Somali girl was stoned to death in front of 1,000 people in a stadium after she reported to the police that she was gang-raped. Now that's what I call a progressive society.

As Netanyahu (sp) put it, regarding Israel, you're guilty until proven guilty.

[Fury]

It all boils down to the fact that women are viewed as lower than garbage in Muslim societies. Just proving a rape requires 4 adult males to have been present at it and willing to testify. Hence why it's borderline impossible to actually convict any Muslim man of rape. 

[Dos Equis]

Iran Woman's Stoning Suspended After International Outcry
Published September 08, 2010
SkyNews

Iran has backed down over plans to stone to death a woman charged with adultery after an international outcry.

The Islamic republic's London embassy said in a statement that "according to information from the relevant judicial authorities in Iran" Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani "will not be executed by stoning".

However, there are still fears that Ms Ashtiani, a mother-of-two, could be put to death by other means after she was found guilty of an affair while she was married.

Her lawyer Mohammed Mostafaei told The Times: "This is a positive development but nothing is clear yet. There have been cases in Iran of stonings being changed to hangings. We have to wait and see what happens."

His client, 43, has already received 99 lashes in mid-2006 after she was convicted of an "illicit relationship" with two men after her husband's death, according to Human Rights Watch.

Later that year she was put on trial again for "adultery while being married", during which Ms Ashtiani said she was forced to make a confession under duress.

Iran's Supreme Court confirmed her execution and the woman has since exhausted all her appeals. She is currently imprisoned in the city of Tabriz.

Ms Ashtiani's 22-year-old son Sajjad has sent an open letter to former political activist Mina Ahadi and other anti-capital punishment campaigners.

"I ask you to send the letter of my mother's pardon to Tabriz and return my mother's life back to her. I hope that you see to it that justice in my mother's case prevails," he said.

"My mother is in a bad psychological state, and in five whole years has been imprisoned without a day of (leave from the prison)."

He told how he has appealed dozens of times to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and judicial chief Ayatollah Sadeq Larijani.

Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt has condemned stoning as "a medieval punishment that has no place in the modern world".

He said in a statement: "The continued use of such a punishment in Iran demonstrates a blatant disregard for international human rights commitments which it has entered into freely, as well as the interests of its people.

"I call on Iran to put an immediate stay to the execution of Ms Mohammadi Ashtiani on the charge of adultery, and review the process by which she was tried, and her sentence.

"She has already faced the disgraceful punishment of 99 lashes for adultery; her execution would disgust and appal the watching world."

Human Rights Watch has also called on Tehran to stop her killing and do away with all death sentences.

The organisation said under the country's law, cases of adultery must be proven either by repeated confession or by the evidence of witnesses - four men or three women and two men.

However, judges are also able to use their "knowledge" to determine guilt or innocence.

Ms Ashtiani's lawyer has said two of the five trial judges found her not guilty - the other three ruled she was guilty based on their "knowledge".

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/08/iran-womans-stoning-suspended-international-outcry/

[Dos Equis]

Report: Iranian authorities give go-ahead to execute woman
From Mitra Mobasherat, CNN
November 2, 2010

(CNN) -- Authorities in Tehran, Iran, have given the go-ahead to execute a woman who initially was sentenced to death by stoning, according to an activist working on her behalf.

However, what method will be used to execute Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is unclear, said Mina Ahadi, spokeswoman for the International Committee Against Stoning. The execution could happen as soon as Wednesday, she said, citing information received from a source in Tabriz, Iran, who is close to Ashtiani's family.

Ashtiani initially was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. The Iranian government later said she was also convicted of murdering her husband, but her lawyer and family dispute that.

A letter from Tehran was delivered to the prison in Tabriz where Ashtiani is being held three days ago, Ahadi said, giving the go-ahead for Ashtiani's execution.

Ashtiani, 43 and a mother of two, drew international attention when she was sentenced to death by stoning. She concedes that she was convicted of adultery, as initially reported, but says she was acquitted of murder. "The man who actually killed my husband was identified and imprisoned, but he is not sentenced to death," she said in August.

The Iranian government's claims that she was convicted of murder are a lie, she told the Guardian newspaper through an intermediary. "They are embarrassed by the international attention on my case, and they are desperately trying to distract attention and confuse the media so that they can kill me in secret."

Ashtiani's son and her attorney are still in jail after being arrested last month, Ahadi said. Also still detained are two German journalists.

"The International Committees against Stoning and Execution call on international bodies and the people of the world to come out in full force against the state-sponsored murder of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani," as well as the release of the others, Ahadi said in a statement.

Before his arrest, Ashtiani's son, Sajjad Ghaderzadeh, said court officials stole documents and files pertaining to the murder of his father in order to "promote his mother as a murderer." And Ahadi's committee said the murder charges are "fabricated" by the Iranian regime.

In August, Ashtiani appeared on state TV confessing that she knew about a plot to kill her husband but felt she had been misled. Amnesty International condemned the interview.

Ghaderzadeh and attorney Hootan Kian will not be issued an attorney, because the government claims they do not need one, according to Ahadi.

Ashtiani's other former lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, is being protected by European diplomats after he fled to Turkey from Iran.

Mostafaei claims that Iranian authorities tried to arrest him without cause.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/11/02/iran.woman.execution/index.html?hpt=T2

[Fury]

CAIR and their far-left cohorts tell me that Sharia Law is progressive, tolerant and quite humane. 

[Dos Equis]

 


Iran Fails to Silence Critics by Changing Woman's Death Sentence From Stoning to Hanging
By Perry Chiaramonte
Published December 28, 2011
FoxNews.com
 
AP/Amnesty International

This undated image made available by Amnesty International in London shows Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother of two who was sentenced to being stoned to death in Iran on charges of adultery. International debate stopped the Iranian government from carrying forth the sentence, but Ashtiani now faces the possibility of being hanged.

Iranian officials, already under fire for sentencing a woman to death by stoning, has done little to diminish international outcry by instead pursuing an execution by hanging.

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 44, was convicted back in 2006 for an “illicit relationship outside of marriage” and sentenced to death by stoning. The execution was delayed after protests across the globe, and Ashtiani has been detained in prison ever since.

On Sunday, the head judiciary, Malek Ajdar Sharifi said the prison does not have the “necessary facilities” to carry forth with the stoning and that they are considering hanging as an alternative.

Sharifi told the Isna News Agency that an investigation is being conducted to see if it is legally and religiously possible to execute Ashtiani by hanging and that once a determination is made, the sentence will be carried out.

The comments have reignited efforts to get Ashtiani freed.

“Iran’s most recent attempt to escape another international embarrassment by converting the sentence to death by hanging still results in Iran violating its obligations under international law,” said Tiffany Barrans of The American Center for Law and Justice, a Washington-based civil rights watchdog group that is calling for the unconditional release of Ashtiani.

“The regime’s post hoc attempts to justify Ashtiani’s death sentence by digging up old criminal charges should be seen as nothing less than an attempt to hide its flagrant disregard for human rights," Barrans said. "Ashtiani’s previous charge and sentence for her alleged involvement with her husband’s murder, a sentence which did not involve death, is suspect at best."

The U.S. State Department has also showed concern over the ruling calling for Iran to “live up to its international commitments to prevent cruel and inhuman treatment.”

“We remain deeply troubled by this case.  The Iranian government has previously stated that Ms. Ashtiani would not face execution by stoning, but her fate remains unclear,” a State Department spokeperson told FoxNews.com. "We continue to have serious concerns regarding the judicial proceedings that led to her conviction. We once again call on the Iranian government to conduct her case with the transparency and due process written in Iran’s own constitution as well as in the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a signatory.”

According to Article 7 of the ICCPR convention, “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Article 6ix states that a death sentence should only be imposed for the most serious of crimes.

“Adultery, by all international standards, does not qualify as one of the ‘most serious crimes,’” Barrans said.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/12/28/iran-judiciary-ruling-in-execution-woman-causes-international-outcry/

[Shockwave]

Boy theyre bound and determined to kill that woman...
She must have done something wrong, being sentenced 3 different times, 2 of them to death.
Well, bitch should have kept her veil on, damn whore.

What a backward ass religion/society.